Vellum 2.0 MAC OS X Vellum 2.0 Size: 12.09 MB Vellum 2.0 makes creating a print edition of your book as effortless as creating an ebook. Select your book's trim size and Vellum automatically numbers the pages of your book, creates page headers, and performs advanced layout like widow prevention and spread balancing. Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later 64-bit 180g's Vellum is one of the few pieces of software dedicated to doing just that.It's not a word processor, nor is it a design program.R.
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I've been using Vellum for about a year now to format eBooks and I love it! In a matter of clicks, it formats my work for each distributor: Apple, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, etc. Each output file is created with specific links to the user's store. So, Apple links go to Apple, Kindle links go to Kindle, and so on. It's amazing. And the files are beautiful. See?
It also works with Box Sets and Anthologies. (Pro Tip: Set them up as 'Volumes' in Vellum.)
This week, they launched Vellum 2.0. It now formats paperbacks as well!
Cue the angels…
Paperback formatting (in the past) has been enough stress to drive me to drink. Struggling with margins, trim size, headers, footers… I've spent precious hours and hours of my life changing the settings, compiling the document, checking the document, changing the settings again, compiling the document…OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
OMG…
And now, it's as easy as 1…2…3.
Here's the final product:
You can use Vellum to create the inner PDF files that are ready to be uploaded to Createspace or Ingram (or wherever else you have your paperbacks printed.)
The whole process from start (importing the book in Word format) to finish (having all the completed files, print included), takes about ten minutes. If only the rest of the world worked as effortlessly as Vellum. *sigh*
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Have YOU tried it yet???
I've been using and teaching book formatting for years, but it's always been a messy, complex, anxiety-inducing process... even when you know what you're doing (and I remember spending days pulling out my hair trying to learn how to do book and ebook formatting from scratch.) So I've been Vellum-curious for years. I knew it produced great looking books; that everybody loved it; that it was easy to use. But I could never try it out, because I'm a PC user and it's only for Mac. So today I finally went down the rabbit hole of 'renting' space on a Mac device online, so I could run the software and format a book. Overall, I'm pretty excited about it. The first video (above) is just short and quick, showing you how to sign up and get started.
The second video (below) is a rough beginner's guide to get started with Vellum (but not a professional tutorial on how to use it - there are better guides for that). My video is just a review of whether you should use it. And my answer is, probably, yeah.
