Tools

Imposition, spines and duplex fixes — the arithmetic and file surgery of making a book, free, running entirely in your browser. Your manuscript never leaves your machine: that is not a slogan, it is how these are built.

Booklet imposerSaddle-stitch imposition: print duplex, fold the stack, staple once. In your browser.2-up imposerCut-stack imposition: two pages a side, one cut, left pile on right pile.Spine calculatorPage count and paper to millimetres of spine — plus the full flat cover width.Blank-page inserterFix recto starts and odd totals by adding the blanks into the file itself.Page reverserFor printers that output face-up and hand you the book back-to-front.Signature plannerPages to signatures — counts, ranges and blanks, in sewing order.Case calculatorThe hand-bound hardcover's full cut list: boards, spine, hinges, cloth.Yardage calculatorCloth cuts to roll metres — books per metre, metres per run.Weight calculatorPages and paper to grams — block, covers, boards itemised.Paper convertergsm ⇄ pounds across all five US basis weights — exactly.Spine text fitTitle to spine width — the largest honest point size.Words → pagesWord count to book pages — then sheets, spine and weight.Cover builderFront, spine, back images to a flat wraparound at true millimetres.De-imposerBooklet PDFs back to reading order — the exact inverse of the imposer.Spread splitterOne guillotine stroke through every page — spreads become singles.Signature splitterOne zipped file per signature, named in sewing order.Scan rebuilderFronts + reversed backs interleaved — the book-scan fix.Folio stamperPage numbers in book convention — outer corners, honest skips.Crop marks & bleedTrim marks and 3 mm bleed, drawn where the blade expects them.Zine imposerEight pages, one sheet, two folds, one cut, zero staples.Margin inspectorPages rendered with trim and safe-area guides over them.Chat statisticsWho writes more, when it wakes, what it says in emoji.

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