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Choose your picture book PDF

Drop a PDF here or browse your files One page per PDF page or one spread per PDF page—either works.

How is your PDF set up?

Each PDF page is a single book page Each PDF page is a complete spread

Does your PDF have standalone single pages at the start? Pages that stand alone before the spreads begin, like a cover or title page. The first one becomes the front cover.

Does your PDF have standalone single pages at the end? Pages that stand alone after the last spread. The last one becomes the back cover.

Does this look like your book? Hopefully! If not, adjust the above settings.

How do you plan to bind it?

I'm going to glue or staple along the fold Probably the normal situation... we won't add any extra white space in the gutter. I'm going to staple through the front cover We can add white space in the gutter (middle of the spread) so you have room for the staples and still see all the art.

Check the print sheets

This is exactly what your printer will get. The pages look shuffled on purpose—they fall into order once the sheets are folded and nested. Select a sheet to see it bigger.

Paper size Add cut and fold marks

Preview your book

This part is kind of pointless. It's here because it looks cool.

Front cover

Download and print

Print it double-sided, flipped on the short edge. On a Mac, that’s Double-sided → On (Short Edge); on Windows, Flip on short edge.

Fold and bind

Fold the papers

Fold all the papers. The last sheet ends up in the middle. If you did this wrong, it will look wrong.
Bind them

Glue the papers together somehow. You can probably figure that out without these instructions. Or staple through the center with a long-reach stapler.

Finish by trimming along the cut marks for clean edges.

Troubleshooting

The back of each sheet prints upside down: Your printer is flipping on the long edge. Switch double-sided printing to the short edge: on a Mac, Double-sided → On (Short Edge); on Windows, Flip on short edge.
The front and back don’t quite line up: Small shifts are normal on home printers. I'm not really sure how to fix it.
Spreads are split across the wrong pages: Check the book configuration in Step 1. The preview in "Does this look like your book?" needs to look right. Adding or removing a single page at the start shifts every spread by one page.

Choose your picture book PDF

1 How is your PDF set up?

2 How do you plan to bind it?

3 Check the print sheets

4 Preview your book

5 Download and print

6 Fold and bind

Fold the papers

Bind them