A chapbook is usually a single-signature pamphlet that contains a small amount of text and/or images, often poems. Here is a simple example of how you might arrange two pages, front and back, to print double-sided, long-edge. The design below allows for 5 content pages in addition to the title, half-title, decorative endpapers, and colophon.
Document: margins are .5 at the top, left, right; .8 at the bottom.
Header and footer: .5
Columns: 2; 3.25 each with 1 inch between them
Always use a "column break" at the end of each column.
Details about type and design are contained in the pamphlet.
To print one out yourself, download a pdf here.
Instructions for a more complicated, 12-page booklet, with multiple signatures are here.
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Document: margins are .5 at the top, left, right; .8 at the bottom.
Header and footer: .5
Columns: 2; 3.25 each with 1 inch between them
Always use a "column break" at the end of each column.
Details about type and design are contained in the pamphlet.
To print one out yourself, download a pdf here.
Instructions for a more complicated, 12-page booklet, with multiple signatures are here.
First page
Second page
cut
stack
nest
bind
Binding instructions on page 95 of
Cover paper used here: Strathmore Charcoal paper
Note: the decorative page may be placed between the cover paper and the title page instead of how it is shown here.