You will notice your Indesign pointer now has a small block of text attached to it.
For this tutorial I’ll import one chapter at a time from my book ‘Ark of the Gods’ as an example. Let’s get started on bringing in some text. Here’s what your clean Indesign document should look like before we bring in the manuscript. Hopefully this bug gets sorted out in the near future. Bring your text in from a DOC file instead, which means just re-saving your manuscript or break down of the chapters as DOC files. Thankfully, there is a solution that keeps the non-breaking hyphens in place. I only realised they were missing after I’d laid out my entire book, so rather then go through the entire setup phase again, I meticulously located every missing non-breaking hyphen and manually replaced them. Secondly, and this is a big issue! For some reason when you bring in a Microsoft Word DOCX file all the non-breaking hyphens are stripped and disappear entirely from the document.I’ve found bringing in the entire manuscript can be a bit hit-and-miss, particularly if your document styles are inconsistent coming from a Word file. You can check each chapter as a separate segment and make sure it all looks correct. That gives you a lot more control of the document as it’s coming into Indesign. Firstly, if you have a long book with a lot of chapters then I suggest you break it down into separate documents for each chapter.There are a couple of things to be aware of here that will save you hours of frustration later on. Now we need to add our text into the Indesign document. No need for the Bleed and Slug because nothing extends beyond the border of my pages.My margins are set to Top 25mm, Bottom 18mm, Inside 20mm & Outside 20mm.If you have two columns or more of text in your book, then this setting can be adjusted to suit. You only need a single column of text, so the gutter is not applicable.Select Facing Pages and Primary Text Frame (Helps with auto text flow, more on that later).I’ve just added 100 pages to start, but you can always add or subtract pages later. As you can see I’ve set the width (152.4mm) and height (228.6mm) to match my book size, using a Portrait Orientation. Open Indesign and select New Document.Document SetupĪssuming that you have Indesign installed and ready to go, here’s the initial steps to setting up the manuscript correctly. So, if you like the look of a certain book, analyse the layout and base yours on the same styles. Usually, within the copyright page you’ll find the Typeset used, including the font and point size. If you’re curious about what font and point size to use throughout your book then find a book with a style you like and check the first few pages. I took a ruler to everything on the page, measuring where the page numbers, chapter titles, headers & footers, and main text were in relation to each other and the edge of the page.
There are no illustrations in my book, just basic text with customised chapter headings and two JPEG images at the front of the book for specifically designed title pages.īack in 2016 when I released my first POD book, I based all my measurements on a book I liked the style of. My novels were created in the 6 inch x 9 inch (152.4mm x 228.6mm) format, but the following guide can be applied to the majority of paperback sizes, all you need to do is change the dimensions of the pages in the setup and you’re good to go. I’ve successfully created two paperbacks, Crown of the Pharaohs and Ark of the Gods, which are available as POD (Print On Demand) titles available through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. If you’ve never used Adobe Indesign before, don’t worry, my step-by-step guide will help you create a print-ready version of your book.
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