Output Files & Specs
Master files included. Most formatting services keep your project locked inside their app, or charge hundreds of dollars for the source files. At BookDesignerAI, the editable masters — your interior DOCX and your layered Photoshop cover file — come with every project, at no upcharge. Your book is yours: download it all and keep it.
Interior (book layout)
- Press-ready print PDF — a professional press PDF prepared to print standards: fonts embedded, interior converted to true print grayscale, exact trim size with correct margins and a page-count-aware binding gutter, mirrored margins, running heads and folios, and a table of contents with real page numbers. Verified against KDP and IngramSpark preflight in live production.
- Editable DOCX master — your complete, finished interior as a fully editable Word document. Open it in Word, LibreOffice, Pages, or Google Docs; every style is a real named style, so future edits keep the design.
- ePub eBook — a reflowable ePub for eBook retailers, built from the same finished book.
- Made bespoke for your book — every file is produced for your manuscript, in the one design and trim size you choose. There's plenty to choose from (nine industry trim sizes and sixteen professional designs, including Magnificent, our large-print design) — but what you receive isn't a template pack; it's your book, individually designed and built.
Cover
- Print-ready cover PDF — the full wrap (back cover, spine, front cover) at print resolution with bleed, the spine width computed from your exact page count and paper stock, a scannable ISBN barcode, and vendor-specific geometry for KDP, IngramSpark, and Lulu — paperback and hardcover (case laminate).
- High-resolution JPG of the full wrap — for proofs, review, and your records.
- eBook front cover — a retailer-ready front-cover image, always included with every cover, whatever formats you choose.
- Your background artwork, on its own — the clean cover art with no text, always included, ready for your website, social media, and marketing.
- Layered Photoshop (PSD) master — the whole cover as a layered PSD: the artwork, title, subtitle, author name, spine text, back-cover copy, and barcode each on their own layer, available with every cover at no upcharge, so you (or any designer you ever hire) can adjust anything down the road.
Grammar & copyediting
- Copyedited DOCX — your manuscript, professionally copyedited, returned as an editable Word document.
- Red-Line option — prefer to approve every change? Receive a tracked-changes DOCX and accept or reject each edit in your own word processor before anything is final.
Marketing & Metadata Kit
- An 18-piece kit as an editable DOCX — back-cover copy, book descriptions, categories and keywords, comparable titles, social copy, a publishing checklist, and more — written for your book, ready to paste into KDP, IngramSpark, and your own channels.
Common questions
Are the master files really included?
Yes. The DOCX interior master, the layered PSD cover master, and your standalone artwork come with every project — no upcharge, no "source file fee," no locked project.
Can I upload these files anywhere?
Yes. Your print files are prepared to the published specifications of KDP, IngramSpark, and Lulu, and your ePub and cover images work with the major eBook retailers. The files are yours — publish wherever you choose.
What if my page count changes after my cover is made?
Spine width depends on page count, so tell Cantos your new count and it re-exports your print cover at the corrected measurements from the same approved artwork — a measurement fix, not a new design.
Do I need Photoshop to use my cover?
No. Your print PDF, JPG, and eBook cover are finished and ready to upload as-is. The PSD master is a bonus for the future — it opens in Photoshop and in free tools that read PSD files (such as GIMP or Photopea).