Exporting

Change the chapter label

Every exported book labels its sections, and "Chapter" is not always the right word. A cookbook reads better as `Recipe 4`, a course as `Lesson 2`.

1. Click `Export` in the top right of the editor.
2. Click the `Chapter numbers` line.
3. Type your word in the `Chapter label` field, for example `Recipe`. It applies to the chapter headings and the table of contents in PDF, EPUB, and DOCX exports.

Smart defaults for new books

New cookbooks, courses, study guides, and checklist packs suggest a fitting label automatically. Books whose structure lives in the titles, like day challenges and devotionals, turn numbering off instead so titles such as `Day 1: A Fresh Start` stand alone.

To go back to the standard label, type `Chapter` or clear the field. To remove numbering entirely, set `Chapter numbers` to None.

Steps

1. Click `Export` in the top right of the editor.
2. PDF is already selected. Click `Download PDF`.
3. The file saves to your Downloads folder on desktop and Android.

On iPhone or iPad

iOS does not auto-save to Files, so there is one extra tap:

1. Tap `Download PDF`. The PDF opens in a preview tab.
2. Tap the Share icon (square with an arrow up).
3. Choose Save to Files.
4. Pick a folder (iCloud Drive, On My iPhone) and save.

Page numbers in the contents

With `Contents` and page numbers both on, PDFs made on a phone or tablet and the KDP print interior list the page each chapter starts on beside its title. A PDF printed from a computer browser keeps a clickable contents instead, since the browser decides where its pages break.

Customise the output

Above the Download button, the Export dialog lists what the PDF will contain. Click any line to change it, then `Back` to return to the list. The preview on the left updates as you go:

Where to find them

Both pages live in the chapter sidebar on the left of the editor. Introduction sits above your chapters, Conclusion sits below. Each shows "AI-generated · click to customise" until you edit them.

Edit, replace, or remove

Click either entry to open it in the same editor as a chapter, with full formatting, AI Assist, and image insertion:

• Replace text: type or paste your own. The AI default only shows when the field is empty.
• Format freely: headings, bold, lists, tables, and images all work, just like a chapter.
• Drop the page: uncheck `Include in exported book` to remove it from every export format.
• Restore the AI version: clear the text and save (an image on its own is kept).

Rename the heading

You can rename either page from its editor, so "Introduction" can become Foreword, Preface, or Prologue, and "Conclusion" can become Afterword, Epilogue, or Final Thoughts. The new name is used everywhere the page appears, including the table of contents. Leave it blank to keep the default label.

Move the intro after your table of contents

Use the KDP export (not the regular PDF) and the intro is placed AFTER the TOC instead of before. That leaves room for your own custom front-matter chapter (disclaimer, dedication, copyright statement) to sit first if you have written one.

Standard PDF and EPUB exports put the intro before the TOC, which is the convention for non-KDP ebooks. There is no toggle to flip the order on those formats: switch to the KDP export type if you need intro-after-TOC.

Steps

Upload the .epub to whichever platform you are publishing on. Most reader apps also let you drag the EPUB straight in to add it to your library for personal review.

1. Click `Export` in the top right of the editor.
2. Switch to the `EPUB` tab. To see how your book reflows on Kindle, tablet, and phone first, use `Preview` in the editor header.
3. Click `Download EPUB`.

Title and copyright pages

The EPUB adds a title page and a copyright page at the start of the ebook. If your book already has its own (common with imported Word files), open `Title & copyright pages` in the EPUB settings and switch ours off, so your pages stay exactly where you placed them and nothing appears twice.

When your book already starts with its own title or copyright page, ours start switched off for that book. You can turn them back on at any time. To keep our copyright page with your own wording, leave it on and type your text in `Copyright page text`.

The paperback has its own `Title page` and `Copyright page` switches, under `Page size & contents` in the KDP settings. Changing the EPUB ones does not change the paperback.

EPUB vs KDP: which export do I need?

A common point of confusion since both relate to Amazon. The difference is paperback vs ebook:

• EPUB export: Kindle ebook (digital). Upload via the Kindle eBook flow on kdp.amazon.com. Also works on Apple Books, Kobo, Gumroad, and any EPUB-compatible reader.
• KDP export: paperback (print). One zip with the print-ready manuscript PDF, the full-wrap cover PDF, plus the Kindle eBook EPUB and front cover. Upload the PDFs via the Paperback flow on kdp.amazon.com.

Where to upload your EPUB

Each platform has its own publishing dashboard. You upload the same .epub file in each:

• Amazon Kindle: kdp.amazon.com → Create → Kindle eBook. Amazon docs at kdp.amazon.com/help.
• Apple Books: authors.apple.com
• Kobo: kobo.com/writinglife
• Gumroad: upload as the product file in your Gumroad product editor

Before you export

Make sure you have a KDP account at kdp.amazon.com (free to create). On the Inkfluence side, you also need a finished book with a cover, and a paid plan or a credit pack to unlock the KDP export.

• KDP account at kdp.amazon.com
• Chapters written and a cover set
• Trim size picked in Export → Page size (Trade 6×9 is the KDP default)
• Creator or Premium plan, or active credits

Steps

One click gives you every file KDP needs for the paperback and the Kindle eBook, in one zip.

1. Click `Export` in the top right of the editor.
2. Click the `KDP` tab at the top of the Export dialog, then `Export KDP Package`.
3. A zip downloads. Each file name starts with a number and says which KDP box it goes in: `1 - Upload to MANUSCRIPT`, `2 - Upload to BOOK COVER`, and for the Kindle eBook `3 - Kindle eBook COVER` and `4 - Kindle eBook MANUSCRIPT`. `0 - READ ME FIRST.txt` has your settings and prices.
4. In KDP's Paperback Content page, upload file 1 in the Manuscript box. In the Book Cover box, tick `Upload a cover you already have (print-ready PDF only)` and upload file 2. Do not use Cover Creator: it builds a new cover from Amazon's templates.
5. Coloring books are paperback only, so their zip has files 0, 1 and 2. Nobody can color on a Kindle.

What is in the bundle

Five files, built to your book's real page count (three for a coloring book):

• Paperback manuscript (file 1): print-ready PDF at your trim size with no bleed (choose "No bleed" in KDP), gutter sized from the page count. A book with full-page photos, and every picture book and ABC book, is made with bleed instead (choose "Bleed"); READ ME FIRST says which
• Paperback cover (file 2): one full-wrap PDF (back, spine and front) with 0.125" bleed, spine width from the page count and the paper you pick in the cover designer's Print tab
• Kindle cover (file 3): the front cover as a JPG. Not in a coloring book's zip
• Kindle eBook (file 4): an EPUB of the book, for the Kindle eBook manuscript. Not in a coloring book's zip
• READ ME FIRST (file 0): which file goes in which KDP box, the trim size, page count, spine width and paper to select, and your paperback print cost and royalty

Your own title page

The paperback manuscript starts with a title page (your title, book description and author name), then a copyright page and the contents. If your book already prints its own title page, common with imported Word files, open `Page size & contents` in the KDP settings and switch `Title page` off, so the paperback does not show two. The page that came after it moves up: the copyright page becomes page 1, or, with the copyright page off too, the contents or your first chapter. No blank page is left behind.

The paperback switch is separate from the one in the EPUB settings and stays on until you turn it off, so set each format the way you want it. Your own copyright page works the same way: switch `Copyright page` off on the same panel.

The same panel has a `Belongs-to page` switch: a "This book belongs to" page with a line to write a name on, after the copyright page. It is on for coloring books and off for other books, and works in the PDF too. In the paperback it is a right-hand page with a blank back.

Once you are on Amazon

Sign in at kdp.amazon.com and click Create. Pick Paperback for files 1 and 2, or Kindle eBook for files 3 and 4. KDP walks you through title, description, pricing, royalties, and tax info. Amazon's own onboarding docs are at kdp.amazon.com/help if you need more guidance on the Amazon-side fields.

Paperbacks earn 60% of the list price, less printing, at $9.99 and up on Amazon.com, and 50% below. KDP fills in the other stores from your US price, and in the UK and Europe that lands just under the 60% line: type £7.99 on Amazon.co.uk and €9.99 on each European store (40 zł in Poland, 110 kr in Sweden). The Publish page's Amazon listing kit shows your print cost and royalty after your first KDP export.

Leave Reading age blank unless the book is for children or young adults: KDP asks for it only for those books.

Steps

Your book downloads as a .docx file with chapters, headings, lists, quotes, and other formatting preserved. Open it in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, or any other DOCX-compatible editor.

1. Click `Export` in the top right of the editor.
2. In the Export dialog, switch to the `DOCX` tab.
3. Click `Download DOCX`.

When DOCX is the right choice

Pick DOCX over PDF or EPUB when the next step is more editing, not publishing:

• Sending to a human editor for line edits or proofreading
• Collaborating with co-authors in Google Docs
• Taking the content into a designer's tool (InDesign, Affinity Publisher) via Word import
• Repurposing chapters into other long-form content

Open the Preview dialog

Two paths, both open the same dialog:

• In the editor: click the Preview button in the top right (next to Publish and Export).
• On the Home or My Books tab: open the 3-dot menu on a book card and pick Preview.

The three tabs

Switch between the tabs at the top of the dialog to check each output:

• PDF: page-by-page rendering of the print-style export. Flip through with Prev / Next.
• EPUB: your book rendered inside Kindle, tablet, and phone device shells so you can spot reflow issues.
• Showcase: how your book looks on its public /books/<slug> page if you publish to Showcase.

Spot, fix, re-preview

Editor changes appear in the preview automatically: close the dialog, fix what you spotted, then reopen Preview. When you are happy, hit Export from the same dialog without leaving.

Two paths, both work

Once you do either of these, the "Made with Inkfluence AI" footer stops appearing on your exports. No toggle to flip, no setting to change. Every export downloads without our branding:

• Credit pack: buy any pack once. Clean exports stay on for life, even after the credits themselves run out.
• Subscription: Creator or Premium. Clean exports while your plan is active.

If you ever want the branding back

Rare, but you can: in the Export dialog, click the `Branding` line and turn off the switch that removes the "Created with Inkfluence AI" footer. Applies to PDF and paperback exports; ebook and Word files never carry the footer on a paid plan.

Steps

Click `Export` in the top right of the editor to open the Export dialog (or use `All tools` → Page setup → Page size in the editor; on a phone, `More` → Page setup). Click the `Page size` line and pick a trim size. Your choice flows through to the exported PDF and the KDP package, and sets the full-wrap cover dimensions for the matching trim. One exception: a novel left on US Letter exports its KDP paperback at Trade 6×9, the standard fiction trim; pick 6×9 or another size explicitly if you want something different.

The sizes

Smaller trim means more pages with the same content and font size.

On the free plan

Three of the eight decorative toggles work on every plan. They are on by default for new books because they look good on almost any genre, but you can switch any of them off if you want a plainer layout:

Unlocked on paid plans

Creator and Premium add five more decorative toggles, all off by default so you can opt into the look you want:

How to find these toggles

Open the Export dialog (the purple `Export` button in the top right of the editor), then click the `Design` line under the format picker. Each toggle has a one-line description so you can see what it does without exporting first. The preview on the left of the dialog updates as you toggle (it opens the pages if the cover is showing), so you can compare looks before you download. Design applies to PDF and paperback exports; ebooks and Word files keep a plain layout.

Your choices are saved per-book

Each book remembers its own decorative settings. Toggling on Recipe cards for a cookbook will not affect your fiction book. You only need to set these up once per book, the choices stick across exports.

Custom header and footer

Click the "Header & footer" line (or, from the editor, `All tools` → Page setup → Header & footer; on a phone, `More` → Page setup) and you can type any text into the Header and Footer fields. Header text runs across the top of every body page; footer text runs across the bottom. If you put a URL in the footer URL field, the footer text becomes a clickable link in the exported PDF.

Header and footer text are paid features. Free exports keep a default footer with our branding (see "How to remove the Inkfluence AI watermark" if you want it off).

What you type here applies to this book only, so each book can have its own header, footer and copyright text. Header text you type is saved for that book only, so a header typed for one book never shows in another. A header saved for every book before October 2026 still prints in every book when it is a series or brand line; when it is one of your book titles, it prints only in that book. For footer and copyright text, a line under the field reads "For this book only": click "Make this my default" to use the same text for your other books, or "Use my default" to go back to your usual text.

Page numbers

Page numbers are on by default. You have three controls:

• Show page numbers: master toggle. Off hides them entirely.
• Show on first page: by default the first page of each chapter skips its number for a cleaner look. Flip this on if you want every page numbered, no exceptions.
• Page X of Y format: switches from "12" to "12 of 248". Useful for very long reference books.

Copyright page

Click the "Copyright page" line and turn "Copyright page" off to remove it entirely. With it on, the list shows where it lands, and under "Header & footer" you can replace the default text with your own copyright statement (publisher imprint, ISBN, rights-reserved language, anything you need). Ebooks always include a copyright page (click its line to set the text); Word files have none.

Chapter numbering style

Click the "Chapter numbers" line for a picker with three options:

• Numeric: "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", and so on (default).
• Roman: "Chapter I", "Chapter II", and so on. Common in literary fiction.
• None: no chapter number at all, just the chapter title. Useful when chapters have descriptive titles like memoir or essay collections.