Pick your format above. Both start from plain sheets of paper.
Zine side out. Fold the sheet in half the long way (top edge to bottom edge). Crease hard, unfold.
Fold the short way (left edge to right edge). Crease hard, unfold.
Fold each short side in to meet the center crease, like closing two little doors. Crease, then open it fully flat. You'll see eight rectangles.
Fold the short way again. Cut along the center crease from the folded edge to the middle — one panel deep, no further. (The red dashed line on the sheet.)
Unfold flat, fold the long way again, then push the two short ends toward each other. The slit opens into a plus sign and the panels fan out.
Press the pages flat so the cover lands on top. If you printed the poster on the back, the whole thing unfolds into a full-sheet image.
Print all sheets double-sided, landscape, flip on the short edge, 100% scale. The page order is already imposed — sheet 1 outside is your cover wrap.
Stack the sheets with sheet 1 on the outside (bottom of the pile as it comes off most printers — check the page numbers).
Fold the whole stack in half along the vertical center line. Crease hard with a bone folder or the back of a spoon.
Two staples on the fold line, about a third in from each edge. A long-reach stapler is ideal; otherwise open the booklet flat over cardboard and staple through.
Poets making one-sheet chapbooks. Fiction writers printing short stories with real book typography. Photographers making photo zines, two-page spreads, and back-side posters. Illustrators sharing sketchbook pages. Kids, classrooms, merch tables, trip recaps — anyone who wants a quick DIY booklet without opening InDesign.
Every page takes multiple text blocks — title, subhead, heading, prose, poem, scene break, credit — each with its own typeface, size, leading, tracking, alignment (including justified), and position. Prose blocks set first-line paragraph indents and paragraph spacing like a real book; poem blocks keep your exact line breaks. Images can fill or fit any page, stretch across facing pages, or wrap the whole cover. Line breaks print exactly as typed. No account needed, and it keeps working offline after the page loads. Export as 300 DPI JPG or print-ready PDF in US Letter or A4.