Do it the by hand.
Gutters and spreads on createspace.
Don t want to blow out the dirt and spread it on your yard.
The spread is unnecessary and artificial in ebooks.
The standard is about inch per 10 feet.
All of this means that the basic unit of design for ebooks is the single page not the two page spread.
K style gutters are the most common option and they provide optimum drainage for the majority of homes in most of the u s.
If you re a self published author who plans.
The above recommendations assume that you have properly sized downspouts every 40 feet.
Createspace hates spreads one of the great appeals of a picture book for an illustrator is the creation of a beautiful story telling double page spread.
Createspace s margin requirements ensure that your content is not cut on the outside edge and is not lost in the inside edge or gutter.
This post is about how to design a good looking book for createspace that takes into account the printer handles gutters and margins the gutter is the space between the two pages of a spread and the margins are on the outside of both pages top bottom right and left sides.
Many people choose these style gutters because they are very aesthetically pleasing and will add a lot of class to your home.
With no seams along the gutter s length it is impossible for the gutter to leak at mid point it can still leak over the top or at corner joints though seamless gutters preserve the smooth horizontals of your roofline and are best at matching your home since rolled aluminum.
Increasing the pitch increases a gutter s handling capacity but the gutter may look askew over a long run.
2 install splash and mesh guards on your gutters.
Page size no bleed set the page size to your selected trim size width by height.
Most times these style gutters are installed with rectangular downspouts.
Page spreads we require single page files as opposed to spreads or 2 up files.
A k style gutter in the same inch width can handle twice as much water as a half round gutter.
Once you ve cleaned out the mess always wash out the gutter and downspouts with a garden hose to flush out the remaining dirt.
If you want your images to bleed to the edges of your pages extend them 0 125 3 mm beyond the final trim size from the top bottom and outer edges of your.
This margin is near the book s binding the middle of an open book.
Inside gutter margins.
Grab a ladder bucket heavy duty gloves and go the old fashioned route.
However a single page fits the screen perfectly and most e readers including the kindle were designed quite intentionally to mimic the size and proportions of a trade paperback book page.
Now i use createspace for reasons that belong in another article.
But createspace was designed to produce books for adults with separate pages of text to the left and right and a gutter down the middle.
The gutter margin stops text from extending into the binding.
In addition they are attached to the home with a visible half round hanger.
As with gutters a downspout s capacity must match or exceed the expected runoff.
They come in 5 inch to 6 inch widths.