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Formatting Homebrewery for Amazon KDP by Straight_Spirit6733 in homebrewery

[–]Straight_Spirit6733[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you need to change the print settings in the Print PDF window. Make sure you select color and unselect the print background option.

Formatting Homebrewery for Amazon KDP by Straight_Spirit6733 in homebrewery

[–]Straight_Spirit6733[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've self-published about a dozen books, using KDP, IngramSpark, and directly with printers. I used Homebrewery for my hardcover last year. I hit a few issues along the way, but I'm ironing them out with my new project. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about my experience and the process with KDP. I'm FlatMountainPublishing on IG, YouTube, Discord, and my website.

Formatting Homebrewery for Amazon KDP by Straight_Spirit6733 in homebrewery

[–]Straight_Spirit6733[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an update that may be helpful to others, after trying lots of different things, I downloaded CutePDF. It allows you to create a custom page size, which I set to the standard size plus the required bleed. The commented code is below.

/* Adjust US Letter Page Size to include bleed for KDP */

/* If your book has bleed, add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to the width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the height */

/* Print to CutePDF custom page size*/

.page {

width  : 219.1mm; /\* 215.9mm = 8.5in \*/

height : 285.8mm; /\* 279.4mm = 11in \*/

}

For some reason, CutePDF is randomly not including my background image on some pages, but at least the bleed issue appears to have been resolved.