Your printed book s width and height.
Book margin gutter setting 8 x 10 book.
Once that s done go into the margins area.
The most common trim size for paperbacks in the u s.
For 8 5 x11 documents bound or unbound use 1 inch margins.
Is 6 x 9 15 24 x 22 86 cm but you have several other options.
Set your document size to 8 5 x 11 inches and then apply the appropriate margin settings from the table below.
Their own template for book size 8 x 10 gives a gutter of 13 but when you upload their internal auto review says the gutter should be at least 5 but gives no mention of inside margin.
Click the margins tab.
Note that not only are the left and right margins different from one another but the top and bottom margins also are different from one another.
This particular book happened to be fairly thick 356 pages so i set the gutter to 0 3 inches.
Adjust margins font size and columns to produce 65 70 characters per line including spaces.
Note if you are unable to select the same paper size as your finished book size in your software you can use the chart below to scale down an 8 5 x 11 piece of paper to the size of book you want to print.
Setting page size and margins a few key terms before you start.
If you are designing your book for double sided printing essential for hard copy books and it can be a good idea for pdf ebooks as well keep in mind that you should set your margins differently for inside and outside margins.
Choose the margin settings in the relevant fields see below.
I would either have to shrink the margins and font quite a bit or have it be so thick as to be unrealistically expensive.
Someone needs to spell out the relationship of gutter to inside margin not mixing the terms and giving examples in a chart with numbers in it.
Print on demand charges per page not per square inch of paper so a 200 page book at 5 x 8 is about twice as expensive as a 100 page book at 8 x 10 even though they have the same amount of actual paper.
So bigger is cheaper.
There are spots there for you to set up your left margin your right margin and your gutter.
Problem is i do not understand the need to specify settings for both inside margin and gutter.
This after setting the paper size at 6 by 9 inches after much research i ve determined the settings i will use for my book.
A standard is to set the left and right margins at a half inch each and to then have a quarter inch gutter.
