Editor
Two-page spreads
In a printed book, every page faces another. The two-page view shows the page you’re editing beside the page it faces once the book is printed and bound, so you can check how pairs look together and where blank pages fall. The editor, the exported PDF and the print preview all pair pages the same way.
Turn on the two-page view
- 1
Find the page buttons
In the bar under the page, next to the zoom controls, are two buttons: One page (a single sheet) and Two pages (an open book).
- 2
Click Two pages
The canvas zooms to fit both pages. Click One page to go back. Your choice is remembered in this browser, for every book.
It needs room for two pages
Books with puzzles
How pages pair in the printed book
- Page 1 sits alone on the right, facing the inside of the front cover.
- After that, pages pair up: 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 7, and so on. Even pages are on the left, odd pages on the right.
- The book ends on an even page. If your last page is odd, a blank page is added after it for printing.
A sheet that isn’t one of your pages is drawn as what it is, with a label:
| Label | What it is |
|---|---|
| Inside front cover | Faces page 1. |
| Inside back cover | Faces the last page of a book with an even number of pages. |
| Blank (single-sided printing) | The blank back of a page, when single-sided printing is on. |
| Blank page added for printing | A blank at the end, so the book has an even number of pages. |
With single-sided printing
When Single-sided (insert blank backsides) is on in Book settings, every page prints on the right with a blank on the left, labelled Blank (single-sided printing). That’s how each picture gets a sheet to itself.
The page numbers above the pages are the page strip’s numbers, not the printed page numbers, which the blanks push along.
Edit in the two-page view
- You edit one page at a time: the page you have open, captioned Page N. Everything in the context bar, the Add rail and Studio works on it as usual.
- The facing page shows exactly as it prints, including changes not yet saved, but you can’t edit it there. Click it, or Page N · Edit above it, to edit it instead. The spread stays where it is.
- Fit to window fits both pages; the zoom buttons work as in the one-page view.
Turn the pages
Round arrows sit at the left and right edges of the canvas. In the two-page view, Next pages and Previous pages turn a whole spread, and the page turns over at the fold like a real book (unless your device is set to reduce motion). Spreads with none of your pages on them, such as a blank at the end, are skipped. In the one-page view the same arrows, Next page and Previous page, step one page at a time. An arrow disappears at the start or end of the book.
You can still jump anywhere by clicking a page in the page strip.
See your book as it prints
Open a book and click Two pages under the page.
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