Book Gutter Size Calculator

The five canons are the fine print the regular print and 3 based of a geometrical division of the page.

Book gutter size calculator.

A handy book spine width calculator for publishers and graphic designers to use. By 6 9 and 12. Please lower the maximum spacing between downspouts to see this effect. However an appointment diary is quite different from a novel or nonfiction book and i would probably reduce the margins to about 5 again with slightly more on the gutter side to compensate for the curve of the binding.

Also see our calculator for book weight. The downspout and gutter sizing calculator is located on the tools cad and apps page of the smacna website. Now architects engineers designers and contractors can easily and accurately size downspouts and gutters according to the specifications in smacna s architectural sheet metal manual 7th edition 2012. Books with more pages need a wider space for the binding.

Adding additional downspouts will require less gutter and downspout volume resulting in smaller gutters downspouts. In a book of this size i would usually recommend minimum 75 margins and a little more on the gutter binding side. There is a calculation for this based on the number of pages in the book or manuscript. The gutter and downspout size required is highly dependent on the amount of gutter and the spacing of the downspouts.