Glava

A book formatter for self-published authors. Bring a Word file, pick a theme, and Glava sets the pages: chapter openings, drop caps, running heads, and a cover wrap sized to your spine. You download a print PDF and a cover PDF for KDP, and an EPUB.

I published Don't Replace Me through Atticus. The PDF had uneven word spacing and straight quotes, and text copied out of it came back garbled. Vellum sets better pages, but it only runs on a Mac, and most indie authors write on a PC.

So I set the same manuscript in Typst and measured both. The Typst pages won on spacing and clean text. Glava is that engine with an editor around it, in a browser tab, and the page updates as you type.

• Imports .docx, Markdown and HTML
• 15 themes, with your own fonts and spacing on top
• Checks margins, page count and images against KDP's rules
• Works out the spine and wrap from your page count and paper
• Free to use, you pay when you export

Platforms

Browser on Windows, Mac and Linux

Price

$99 once, founder price