Print Book Formatting Software

Transform your manuscript into a book you’re proud to share.

Start with a beautifully crafted theme. Customize it to reflect your story. Then watch every chapter, margin, page number, and typographic detail come together into a book that finally feels complete.

Print-ready PDF Amazon KDP IngramSpark
The Hollow Mountain
Chapter Three
The Glass Garden
The rain came in sideways that afternoon, rattling the long windows of the greenhouse. Mira pressed her palm to the cold glass and watched the garden beyond turn silver and blurred. She had been here before, long before she understood how much a place could remember.
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Literary Theme
6 × 9 in.
Chapter Opening
Curated Book Themes

Begin with expert design, not a blank page.

Storyloft themes are curated book designs built around carefully chosen typography, spacing, chapter openings, ornaments, scene breaks, headers, folios, and the rhythm of the printed page.

Start with a design that already understands how a beautiful book should work. Then shape it until it feels unmistakably yours.

Start stronger Expert guidance

Every theme begins with considered typography, hierarchy, spacing, proportion, and professional book-design conventions.

Make it yours Full creative control

Change type, trim, margins, chapter treatments, ornaments, spacing, and layout without rebuilding your book.

Stay polished Refined with Eddy

As you customize, Eddy helps keep the details balanced, consistent, and professionally resolved.

Chapter Six
The Long Way Home
There was something permanent in the silence that followed. The room held its breath as the afternoon light moved slowly across the floor. Some stories begin with a journey. Others begin with the decision to stay.
Editorial
Seven
Before the Morning
She remembered the sound of rain against the windows and the long shape of the road beyond the house. Memory had a way of polishing ordinary things until they became sacred.
Literary
VIII
Chapter
The Discovery
Every inquiry begins with a question. Yet the most consequential discoveries often emerge from what the investigator did not expect to find at all.
Classic
04 / METHOD
Making Sense of Complexity
Good systems make complexity legible. They reveal relationships between the parts without losing sight of the whole.
Modern
Chapter Nine
A Quiet Place
It was enough to be there. Nothing needed to be explained. Beyond the window the trees moved softly in the wind.
Minimal
❧ ✦ ❧
Chapter Eleven
The Secret Garden
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By midsummer, the path had almost disappeared beneath the flowers. Every doorway seemed to open into another world.
Decorative
Curated, not crowded

A beautiful starting point. Complete freedom to make it yours.

You choose the visual language of your book. Eddy helps keep the typography, spacing, hierarchy, and details polished as you go.

Designed as a system

Adjust once. See your entire book respond.

Formatting hundreds of pages doesn’t have to mean editing hundreds of pages. Make one change and Storyloft carries it through the entire book.

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Choose your theme

Give your manuscript a complete visual direction with a beautifully designed starting point.

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Find the right trim

Move between standard print sizes or create your own. Your text reflows automatically.

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Refine typography

Adjust fonts, spacing, paragraph behavior, justification, and reading rhythm.

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Design chapter openings

Combine titles, numerals, drop caps, ornaments, or a more minimal treatment.

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Set your pages

Fine-tune margins, gutters, and page geometry to create the right frame around your writing.

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Add the finishing touches

Control running headers, folios, first-paragraph treatments, notes, and the details readers expect.

Simple controls. Professional results.
Print Formatting
Live Preview
Layout
Theme
Trim Size
Typography
Chapters
Margins
Headers
Chapter Three

The Glass Garden

Chapter spacing
The details matter

Great design feels invisible. Until it’s not.

The details readers rarely think about are often the ones that make a book feel professionally made.

The Hollow Mountain
The garden had changed in the years since she last stood beneath the old cedar trees. The path was narrower now, almost swallowed by moss, and the stone wall at the edge of the property leaned toward the river.

She walked without hurrying. There was nowhere else she needed to be. The late afternoon light settled between the branches in long pale bands.

At the far end of the path she stopped. The house was exactly where she remembered it.
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Chapter Three
The Glass Garden
The rain came in sideways that afternoon, rattling the long windows of the greenhouse like something trying to get in. Mira pressed her palm to the cold glass.

She had been here before. The memory came without bitterness now, only a kind of ache she had learned to live beside.
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Balanced mirrored margins
Right-hand chapter starts
Accurate folios
No first-paragraph indent
Clean running headers
Elegant justification
Hyphenation Front matter Table of contents Notes Recto / verso rules Header suppression Page geometry
Focus on your words. Storyloft keeps track of the details.
A true book preview

This isn’t just a preview page. See your entire book as it will be.

Storyloft turns your manuscript into a true paginated book. Navigate the title page. Read through chapters. Jump into the middle. Review the table of contents, notes, headers, spreads, and page breaks.

Change something? Adjust the trim, typography, or layout and the book responds. Review the book you are actually creating before you export it.
Real pagination. Not a rough approximation
Real spreads. See left and right pages together
Your manuscript. From front matter to final page
The payoff
Then it becomes this.
Finished physical book designed and formatted in Storyloft

A real book.

Not a draft. Not a template. Not just a manuscript with better margins.

The kind of book you place on a shelf, hand to readers, sign at an event, send to reviewers, or treasure for years.

The final 10% makes all the difference.

Your words make the book yours.
Good design makes it unforgettable.

Simple by default

Designed for ease. Ready for creativity.

Storyloft gives you expert guidance without trapping your book inside a rigid template. Start beautifully. Then decide how far you want to take it.

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Start with a professionally curated theme.
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Refine typography, trim, margins, and page rhythm.
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Customize chapter openings, ornaments, and decorative details.
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Keep shaping the book until the design feels completely your own.
Eddy stays with you Creative freedom without losing the polish.

As you make changes, Eddy helps keep typography, spacing, hierarchy, and book-design details clean, balanced, and consistent.

Coming soon Page Designer

Themes will always give you a strong foundation. Page Designer will give you even more flexibility at the individual-page level.

Production-ready

From Storyloft to the printer.

We make the creative process simple. The production side stays precise.

Your manuscript

Keep writing and formatting inside the same connected Storyloft book.

Professional interior

Storyloft handles pagination, typography, page geometry, headers, notes, and structure.

Print-ready PDF

Export a finished interior prepared for modern print-on-demand workflows.

Publishing workflow Amazon KDP

Create correctly sized interiors for paperback and hardcover publishing workflows.

Wide distribution IngramSpark

Produce polished book interiors prepared for professional print distribution.

Your finished file Print-ready PDF

Export your book without moving your manuscript into another design application.

One manuscript.
One system. One professionally finished book.
Everything built in

Complete print formatting from start to finish.

From the first chapter opening to the final page number, Storyloft keeps your book design connected.

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Book themes

Apply a curated visual system across your manuscript without rebuilding every page.

Trim sizes

Choose standard publishing dimensions or create a custom book size.

Margins and gutters

Balance page geometry and bound-edge space for comfortable reading.

Live print preview

Review your manuscript as a complete, paginated print book.

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Running headers and page numbers

Keep headers and folios aligned with the structure of your book automatically.

Chapter formatting

Create distinctive chapter openings with titles, numbers, ornaments, drop caps, and type.

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Front matter

Structure title pages, copyright pages, dedications, and other opening sections.

Automatic table of contents

Generate a table of contents that stays aligned with the final pagination of the book.

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Professional typography

Refine spacing, justification, hyphenation, paragraph behavior, and reading rhythm.

Images and illustrations

Position visual elements while maintaining a coherent printed layout.

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Notes and references

Format footnotes and endnotes as part of the finished book structure.

Bleed and print geometry

Prepare layouts around the geometry required for professional book production.

Long manuscripts

Keep design, pagination, headings, notes, and navigation consistent across hundreds of pages.

Your manuscript is ready

Your book is written.

Let’s make it complete.

Choose a curated design. Make it yours. See the finished pages instantly. Export when you’re ready.

No extra projects. Just your book, made beautiful.
Frequently Asked Questions

Print book formatting, explained.

Everything you need to know about formatting and preparing your manuscript for professional print.

What is print book formatting?
Print book formatting is the process of turning a manuscript into professionally designed pages ready for printing. It includes typography, trim size, margins and gutters, pagination, chapter formatting, running headers, front matter, notes, images, tables of contents, and other layout details.
Can Storyloft format books for Amazon KDP?
Yes. Storyloft prepares print book interiors for Amazon KDP workflows, including common trim sizes, margins, pagination, book structure, and print-ready PDF export.
Can I use Storyloft for IngramSpark?
Yes. Storyloft can be used to create professionally formatted print interiors for IngramSpark publishing and distribution workflows.
Do I need to know typesetting?
No. Storyloft handles complex book-design conventions while still giving you control over themes, typography, trim sizes, margins, chapter styling, and other creative choices.
Can I customize my book’s design?
Yes. Storyloft combines curated themes with controls for typography, trim sizes, margins, chapter openings, ornaments, page layout, and other book-design elements.
Does Storyloft create print-ready PDFs?
Yes. Once your book is formatted, Storyloft can export the finished interior as a professional print-ready PDF.
Can Storyloft format nonfiction books?
Yes. Storyloft supports nonfiction book formatting, including tables of contents, images, structured headings, footnotes, endnotes, front matter, and other elements commonly used in nonfiction books.
Can I preview my book before exporting?
Yes. Storyloft provides a paginated print preview so you can inspect the book from the opening pages through the final chapter before exporting the finished print PDF.