One of the most common questions I get asked is how can I edit the free
PDF lined interior that I have available to download in my Gumroad shop? Now,
why would you want to do this anyway? Well,
it means you can create your very own customized and original
interiors by doing things like adding pages, removing pages, adding text,
and also adding images to the lined interior.
So that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do today.
And I'm gonna show you how to do it in Canva,
which is a free web based software,
which means has the advantage of that you can do this on virtually any platform.
Now, if you've not been to channel before then welcome my name's Paul Marles,
and I do videos on how to make it, keep it and grow it.
And that's your money I'm talking about. So step one,
we need to get our lined interior.
Now I've left a link down below in the description to my Gumroad shop.
You'll find this here, the lined interior. You can just download that.
Now it's a 120 page interior and is six by nine
inches. So, step two, once you've downloaded that interior,
you need to go along to Canva. At the top, click on, create a design,
then click on import file,
and then just drag your PDF file into the upload box and open it.
It takes a few moments to upload the file to Canva. And once it is uploaded,
you just click on the file and it will open the 120 page PDF
file. Step three, edit the interior in Canva.
Now it's easy to add pages. You can just click on the duplicate page box.
And again,
it's easy to delete pages by just clicking on the little dustbin icon. Okay?
So in order to edit a page, it's very simple.
You can just click on the individual lines here and you can just move
a line around. You can hit delete and delete it all together.
And that's what we're going to do to the top three lines.
And doing this we'll make room for our text. Over on the left hand side,
hit the text button, and then I normally just click,
add a subheading and then just move the text box up into this area that we've
just created.
And you can center this on the page quite easily as Canva will tell you or show
you when it's centered.
Then it's just a case of editing the text and I'm just going to type in,
what am I grateful for now?
This font looks a bit plain and dull. So at the top,
click on the down arrow on the font box and you have all these different fonts
that you can choose from. Now,
those fonts with a little gold crown next to them are only available if you
have the paid for pro Canva account, but we can use all the others.
And I'm just going to choose this very basic font here. This Alex brush,
which is a script font,
which is in keeping with the style of interior we're going to be creating
today. Now the font or text is a little bit small. So at the top,
we can just increase the.
Font size by clicking on this button. And we'll change that to 33. Now,
one of the big issues that a lot of people have when creating interiors is
around the issue of the dreaded margins.
Now what you've got to do is imagine there's this invisible border around the
edge of the page,
which none of your main content should go into, because if it does go into that,
it risks getting cut off when the book is made and the pages are trimmed.
And you'll get an error either at the preview stage or after you've published
your book. And it will get rejected. Simple way to overcome this is again,
go to my Gumroad, shop,
scroll down a little bit and find these free KDP margin templates
here. When you open that,
you'll have all these options for different sized templates and the left and
right hand side templates. Now this PDF file is a 120 page PDF file.
It is six by nine inches and it has bleed because the lines go from
one inch of the page to the other.
So these top two files are the files we want.
So just click on download and it will download that particular template to your
computer. Go back to our document. Then all you need to do, left hand side,
click on uploads,
and then just drag in the template that you've just downloaded.
And you can see I've already done this a number of times. Once it's downloaded,
all you need to do is drag in the template to your document,
move to the top left corner, drag down to the bottom right hand corner,
and it will click into place.
Now you'll see that this template has obscured our lines.
So at the top click on position and click on to back.
And this will send the template backwards down below all the layers
of the different lines. So the problem would arise, for instance,
if you had content such as this written content and you left it like,
so where it goes into this pink border, which is your margin.
Again,
if you submitted that you will get your book rejected or you'll get an error at
the preview stage.
So we want all our text and main content within this pink border.
So this would make the basics for a very simple prompt journal. Now,
if we're going a bit more complex, we could create a gratitude journal.
And the way I would do this is go to the middle lines and just delete
those. Again text, add a subheading, move this.
So it's sort of equally spaced between the lines, write in something simple.
What made me smile today? Change the text, change the font,
again to Alex brush and increase the size of the font to the same as the above
text, which was 33.
Now we could customize this even more by adding an image.
So on the left hand side, if you click on elements,
you've got all these free images that you could choose from. Click on, see all.
Or you could upload your own image, which is what I've done.
And I'm going to drag that across.
O.nto our page to reduce the size,
going to change the angle of that, place it in the corner,
making sure that it doesn't go into the pink border. Now this is a bit dark.
So what I'm going to do at the top,
click on transparency and turn the transparency down like so.
And one last thing I'm going to do is just change the shade of the text.
So you can do that by selecting the text, go to text color,
and you've got options here. You can choose your own custom color,
but I'm just going to reduce this to dark gray and same for the text here.
That's our page all set up. Next thing to do is just to delete the template.
So just select it and then hit delete, and it's gone.
So that's your first page created.
So then you would need to go to the next page and go through the same process
because each page would be different, obviously,
because it's all going to have different text on there.
And then once you've done that for all the pages you want,
it's then just a case of hitting on, share clicking, download,
click the down arrow, click PDF print,
and download the PDF to your computer,
which is then ready to upload to KDP and publish on Amazon.
So that's a simple way of modifying this lined interior.
And you can take this as far as you want and create all different types of
interiors. Now, if you are new to this whole KDP,
no content and low content book publishing,
then I would suggest watching this video next,
where I run through all the steps in creating a cover and
interior for your book, which you're ready to publish on Amazon.
Thank very much for your time. It is very much appreciated.
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