Setting page size and margins a few key terms before you start.
Book margin gutter setting.
Set the margins as 0 76 on the top bottom and inside and 0 5 on the outside.
For a professional interior book layout we recommend that you keep any elements you don t want trimmed off at least a 5 from the top outside bottom and 8 from the binding side of the book.
Choose the margin settings in the relevant fields see below.
If you are designing your book for double sided printing essential for hard copy books and it can be a good idea for pdf ebooks as well keep in mind that you should set your margins differently for inside and outside margins.
This creates a gutter where the two pages join.
A standard is to set the left and right margins at a half inch each and to then have a quarter inch gutter.
And make sure these settings apply to whole document at the bottom by selecting that in the dropdown.
I thought for a book as opposed to say a two column newsletter inside margin gutter.
That said go ahead and give the gutter a 1 margin so the content of your book doesn t get lost in the fold.
Then set the gutter as 0 13.
Let s take a 6 x 9 book as an example.
The most common trim size for paperbacks in the u s.
The more pages in a book the more pronounced this effect and so the wider the gutter has to be.
For a typical novel or narrative nonfiction book of about 200 pages i would start off with an outside margin of 75 and a gutter margin of 875.
Whether it s choosing to a flat laying binding style such as saddle stitch booklets wire o booklets or spiral bound booklet or including the gutter margin when you start designing your perfect bound book or hard cover book.
Yet when i viewed a youtube video on createspace the video showed on one screen the alleged default settings for createspaces s master book template which had separate settings for inner margin and gutter.
Click the margins tab.
Your printed book s width and height.
In the pages area set it to mirror margins.
Is 6 x 9 15 24 x 22 86 cm but you have several other options.
Also remember to select mirror margins when setting up your custom page size in microsoft word.
There are spots there for you to set up your left margin your right margin and your gutter.
As the pages disappear towards the binding the edge of the page is obscured so the margin has to be wider on this edge to allow for this.
Now that you understand what the gutter margin is you can take the proper steps to prevent this potential issue.
In order to have the option of setting an inside margin you.
This could cause issues further on as the gutter margin is the amount of space between the content of your book and the fold where the pages of the book will be bound together.
This particular book happened to be fairly thick 356 pages so i set the gutter to 0 3 inches.
