Various information is included depending on the situation, including the title of the work, author name, publication date, printing and production company, contact details and website URL. This includes information on the work and its publication, usually at the end of the work. Whether folios are needed depends on the publishing method, but they are required by many printing shops when printing fanzines.įor e-books, meanwhile, there are cases in which folios must not be used. The page number is generally counted from the cover page and displayed at the bottom of each page. There is not much use for a title page in e-books, and whether one is used in a fanzine also depends on the author's preference, but including one may make page composition easier. It contains the title and other information. The title page is the first page of the main text seen after opening the cover.

The required items vary depending on the publishing method. In addition to the parts of a book you are likely familiar with, such as the preface, postscript or contents page, the following pages and settings are also required when producing book data.

Therefore, when creating works that will only be published as e-books, there may be cases where filling with gray will yield better result than tones. However, it is extremely difficult to avoid moiré in e-books, which will be scaled up and down by readers. When creating a manga manuscript in CLIP STUDIO PAINT, make sure that the layer expression colors are correct for the manuscript settings. If you have not yet decided on a publishing format, it is recommended to use the settings for paper books, for the same reason mentioned in the section about manuscript sizes. Monochrome manuscripts: Duotone/grayscale Monochrome manuscripts (when printing books): Duotone The following color depths (color modes) are usually used. Using resolutions larger than the above is not recommended unless the finished print is large (such as posters), as the file will become very large. The following resolutions are usually used. If, for example, you are publishing a work as a “commercial manga & e-book”, the data should be produced in B4 size, but A4 size is adequate if you are publishing a “fanzine & e-book”.Ĭarefully consider how you will publish the work before deciding on the size. However, enlarging data can cause issues such as pixelated lines. The size depends on the purpose or the publishing method, but care needs to be taken when publishing the same file with multiple methods.įor example, commercial manga data produced in B4 size can easily be converted to A4 size for a fanzine, as this is simply a matter of reducing the size.

This count includes cover pages 2 and 3 even if they are blank.Ĭommercial manga: B4 pages (finished in A4) Also, be aware that in most cases, cover page 1 is counted as the first page and cover page 4 is counted as the last page.

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