WilloraPDF
WilloraPDF is a free and open source document preparation system for professional publishing, brought to you by Magenta Stripe Media.
It is a collection of themes, tools and other goodies for Asciidoctor-PDF to make a full-featured prepress toolchain. WilloraPDF is designed to empower self-publishers and lower the barrier to entry for authors who want their work professionally printed.
It is currently a work in progress, being developed alongside my debut novel. Version 1.0 of WilloraPDF will be released when the first paperback and/or hardcover editions are printed for my book! Then you'll know for certain that WilloraPDF can be used to publish actual, real-life books.
Use cases
- Typesetting for printed text with no (or very few) illustrations
- Render PDFs for local home printing or actual bookbinding
- Render EPUBs for reading on Kindle and other e-readers
- Generate properly formatted manuscripts
How it works
- Write your book in the AsciiDoc markup language
- Choose a theme, trim size and other settings
- Feed your book into WilloraPDF
- A good-looking PDF and/or EPUB document comes out!