Your gutter margin (the side where the paper is bound, also known as the «spine side») should be at least three - fourths of an inch.
Formatting — If you don't want to battle with Word on things like headers and footers, table of contents and
gutter margin, you may want to hire someone to format your manuscript to meet the specifications of the publishing company you are using.
Gutter Margin (no ink area): 0.125» (3 mm) is required on the bind side of interior.
Gutter margins are by the book's binding.
Saddle stitch books (anything less than 48 pgs) do not require
gutter margins
You'll notice that the inner margins facing the book binding (a.k.a.
the gutter margins) are bigger.
Not exact matches
It is time to set up your
margins and
gutter.
The paper book sample shown does not show the proper
gutter and outer
margins.
By having wide
margins (referred to as
gutters in the book design world) and spacing, bullets and even boxed in pieces to highlight particular text, it invites the reader to read instead of taking inventory via a quick scan and moving on.
While perfect binding reduces expense, it also reduces the inner (
gutter)
margins of the book to allow for gluing pages to the spine, thereby reducing the amount of text that can appear on each page and requiring care in printing layout.
Gutter - Also referred to as the margin, the gutter is the space between the printed area and the binding of a
Gutter - Also referred to as the
margin, the
gutter is the space between the printed area and the binding of a
gutter is the space between the printed area and the binding of a book.
Formatting for CreateSpace — a popular on demand book publisher — requires that outside
margins be at least 1⁄4 inches, and inside (or
gutter)
margins should range from.375 inches for smaller books, to 1 inch for larger books.
Are the interiors easy to read, clean, with plenty of space in the
margins and
gutter?
Even though I've properly set up my inside
margin (
gutter), the interior reviewer keep saying that mine is insufficient.
Set up your Preferences, and create a new file for a book, making your document the correct size (in my case, 8x5,)
margins and
gutters as you need them to be.
I noticed that the preset
margins look too big for this small trim size, so I reduced all the
margins to 0.625 ″ except the inside
margin (the
gutter or spine edge), which I kept at 0.75 ″ to allow for perfect binding.
That will include the right trim size,
margins,
gutters, line spacing, fonts selected, font size, running heads, title page, copyright page, page numbers, etc..
From https://github.com/aginiewicz/createspace/wiki/documentation, a rule - of - thumb for sizing the
gutter (the extra space in the inner
margin for the book binding is: ln (pages ÷ 4) × 0.15 ″.
And setting up the
margins,
gutter, running heads, etc... not brain surgery, either.
No — it was more to do with indenting in a chart, and in converting from a layout with a
gutter and mirror
margins.
PAGE NON BLEED: 8.5 w x 11h PAGE BLEED: 9w x 11.5 h SPREAD NON BLEED: 17w x 11h SPREAD BLEED: 17.5 w x 11.5 h LIVE AREA: 7.5 w X 10h -LRB-.5»
margin from trim) Allow.75 inches towards
gutter on a 2 page spread.
Beyond the narratives and illustrations that these texts present, it is in the
margins and
gutters, in the textures and contours of these printed objects that Baum finds her subject.
Here you will find lots of surprise fun (mandated sewer projects; 40 year old furnaces or frozen and cracked radiators connected to burnt - out boilers; single - pane wood frame windows in snow country; inadequate or completely missing or worse, outdated insulation;
gutters broken by ice damns; etc.) but you also get the added challenge of really tight
margins between purchase and sales price coupled with severely limited number of qualified and interested buyers.