Graphic design & page layout
Give your book the professional look it deserves with guidance from our team of publishing experts.
Designing a book can feel overwhelming. Fonts, margins, page breaks, images, cover layouts… there’s a lot to get right. Experienced authors prefer to design everything themselves, but most want help fine-tuning their layout. Our role is to give you the tools, guidance, and expertise you need to create a book that looks polished, readable, and professional, while you stay in charge of the creative direction.
We’re here to answer questions, review your files, and help you avoid common mistakes that can affect print quality.
Need help?
Hire our professional book design team.
Fast-track your way to a professional-looking book with the help of our experienced book designers who can create: interior layouts, book covers, typography treatments and image-heavy or complex layouts.
We have developed a unique service offering in the printing market:
Your manuscript is transformed into print files that strictly comply with the technical and typographical requirements of the professional publishing world.
You are in direct contact with the graphic designer who produces your print files, makes suggestions based on his/her experience and respects your editorial choices.
Our graphic designers and production team have been working together for over 10 years, printing hundreds of projects every year.
Discover our price estimates for each service:
| Service | Estimate* |
|---|---|
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Adjustments to a cover file |
$75 to $125 |
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Complete creation of a cover file |
$200 |
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Interior layout (text only) |
$2.95 / page |
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Interior layout (with images, tables, illustrations) |
Quote on request |
*Estimates provided for guidance only. All projects are subject to a personalised quotation first, taking into account the particularities and specific needs of the manuscript.
You stay creative.
We make sure it prints beautifully.
Your book’s design should reflect your voice, your style, and your vision. We simply help make the process easier, and ensure the final printed result looks exactly the way you intended. Whether you’re designing your very first book or refining your twentieth, we’re here to guide you through every step of the layout and design process.
The following information is collected with your consent: first name, last name, and email address. This information is collected in order to ensure our database is up to date. None of this information will be provided or sold to a third party.
Want to take care of your layout yourself?
If you want to be completely independent in creating your book, we strongly recommend using a layout tool that offers advanced features that will enable you to meet the technical requirements of any professional printer.
To date, two solutions stand out in particular and enable such print files to be generated:
Canva
Canva allows you to build your book easily, even with no design background. It is perfect for photo books and first-time book projects.
Canva is a great option for authors who want to design their book without learning complex software. With simple tools, drag-and-drop features, and ready-made templates, it’s easy to create a clean, professional layout even as a beginner. We provide guidance on sizes, margins, and export settings so your Canva file prints perfectly and looks just the way you imagined.
By choosing Rapido, you get completely free access to hundreds of Canva Premium templates and can collaborate to create your own layout. Contact us for more info!
Adobe InDesign
For authors and designers working in Adobe InDesign, we fully support professional, production-grade layouts.
Whether you're building a complex photo book interior or a minimalist novel, we provide precise trim-size templates, margin and bleed specifications, spine calculations, and recommended type settings for optimal readability.
Our team can review your files for common prepress issues, such as image resolution, embedded fonts, colour profiles, overprint settings, transparency flattening, and PDF/X-ready export settings, so your final output meets print standards and performs flawlessly on press.
Have done 2 printing runs of books with Rapido now and have been so happy with the product itself and dealing with the company.
Both times we have had fast turn around and they have been nothing but accommodating and a pleasure to deal with.
We will continue to use Rapido in the future.
The paper was great, the ink actually showed better than the other test copy I had. Thank you so much for making this process easy and stress-free.
Finding a printing company that ticked all my boxes was one of my biggest worries, but thankfully, I am no longer worried about that because I will be printing with Rapido in the near future!
We were entirely pleased with Rapido.
From personal service, thoughtful attention and a great price, we will definitely be working with them again.
As for the speed of delivery, the name says it all!
I was simply amazed by the swiftness with which Rapido Books worked, and by the sheer excellence of the finished product. I am so proud of this book you just put out and want to thank you profusely for it.
Not only is your company “Rapido”, it is “Perfetto”. From now on, I will urge my editors to get their books produced by your company. You are in a class by yourself.
I am extremely pleased with my experience with Rapido Books: professionalism and quality would be two of many things which comes to mind.
My books are pictorial libraries, therefore quality of the images is of utmost importance, needless to say the quality was well beyond my expectation!
I give Rapido a 5 star for their services.
When I began my search for a possible printing company for the Saga I was told that Rapido gave excellent service. I admit that you have lived up to your reputation. Thank you for being as considerate and as professional as you have shown yourself to be. It has been a pleasure to do business with you.
Given the opportunity, I will certainly recommend Rapido to anyone in search of efficiency and execution.
I just had to write and express my gratitude for the service you provide. I couldn’t be happier with the results of the printing of my two previous books.
They were very professionally printed and the whole process was seamless and without any problems whatsoever. I have never had such an easy print job with excellent quality like yours. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Rapido Books are very professional and efficient. They were very helpful and answered all our questions to help us make our final choice in the materials that would best fit our project. Once that was done the printing and delivery process was super fast and the end results were great.
Very satisfied with our experience and we will use their services again for future projects and reprints.
Rapido is ever responsive and ever professional.
Their prices are very reasonable, better than the big boys in the USA, and their workflow is efficient and straightforward, especially with their clever online system for quotes, file uploads, and invoices.
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Rapido is a friendly, honest and competent team. It’s a printing quality you can always rely on. They’re also always meeting deadlines.
Their team has ‘saved’ us on several occasions because they carefully check PDFs before printing. Which is surprisingly not the case everywhere! As a result, we’ve avoided a number of blunders that would have made people laugh… but not us!
As an author/publisher in Canada, I use Rapido for short-run, best-quality prints, including ARC copies, launch copies, and more. The materials and craftsmanship are superb.
Moreover, Rapido provides excellent instructions, advice, and service at every stage of the project. Thank you, Rapido!
Our experience with Rapido was wonderful.
Our publication house used Rapido’s services for our first professional collection of work. The team was very helpful in meeting our needs, were easy to reach out to for question, and came through with a beautiful final collections even through some tight turn around times on our end.
Very thankful for Rapido and their great work!
We print approximately 40 titles a year at Rapido. In other words, we appreciate their work!
Their good choice of paper, their flexibility regarding formats and bindings, and their short turnaround times make them valuable collaborators.
First experience with Rapido Books, and we are not disappointed.
We received support throughout the entire process. They were patient and professional in answering all our questions.
Thank you for the speed and courtesy of the staff!
