Compile
Generate a fully formatted, finished book and publish everywhere.
Compile turns the manuscript in your Binder into a paginated, retailer-ready EPUB or PDF, with the trim size, embedded typefaces, running heads, and chapter openers a finished book carries. You choose the style, see it rendered before you commit, and export the file you upload.
Real pagination
Text flows and wraps like an actual printed page.
Widows and orphans, running heads that carry the chapter title, page numbers that restart where they should, and chapter openers that begin where a reader expects them. You see the finished page while you are still choosing how it should look, so nothing is a surprise at upload.
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Typography, properly handled
Supports 1,900+ Google typefaces.
Actually embedded in the exported file. Set a different typeface for headings, body text, and running headers and footers independently, not as one setting for everything.
- Chapter openers reserve their traditional half-page of white space
- Independent typefaces for headings, body, and running heads
- Twenty-nine families ship inside the Mac and iPad apps, so an offline compile matches the browser
- US and UK print trim sizes built in, mass market to large print
- Every style theme shows a real rendered preview before you pick it
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Works with every platform
Compile once. Publish everywhere.
Every file Compile exports is formatted to each platform's actual requirements: trim size, embedded fonts, and running heads, handled per retailer from the same manuscript. Export to EPUB or PDF and it's ready for every major store and distributor, no separate formatting pass for each one.
Ideas, Writing, Creative Vibing, Compiling, and Marketing: One Tool.
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