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Can I make a dust jacket with Publisher? That is, a front cover, spine, back cover, and flips on both front and back. 

If yes, how? Is there any template that includes five sections mentioned above? 

My book content is based on A4 paper. I understand the hard cover and dust jacket will be slightly larger. I wouldn't know the exact measurements but it would be better if I could play around with photos and words and design the jacket, at least. 

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5 hours ago, LeftyAngler said:

Can I make a dust jacket with Publisher? That is, a front cover, spine, back cover, and flips on both front and back. 

If yes, how? Is there any template that includes five sections mentioned above? 

My book content is based on A4 paper. I understand the hard cover and dust jacket will be slightly larger. I wouldn't know the exact measurements but it would be better if I could play around with photos and words and design the jacket, at least. 

Hello @LeftyAngler and welcome to the forum.

Of course you can produce a dust jacket with APub. You need to know that the application does not support spreads with more than two pages. You would set up a one page spread with the size of the entire dust jacket. Then you mark the seperate sections (front cover, spine, ...) with guides. I usually place rectangles with their respective background colour for each segment in the background and lock them.

Essentially is to know the exact measurements of the five segments. But to just build a prototype design you can use guessed dimensions. E.g. you could measure them from a book in your library if you have one. Also keep in mind that you have to include a certain amount of bleed around the entire design.

You could search in the resources section of this forum if you find a template. But it is not very complicated to set up a template by your own.

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You should already know as precisely as possible how wide the spine will be and how wide the flip covers should be.  The whole thing is then added to the side width of the front and back covers.

In my example, I have chosen a page height of 297 mm.
The widths are 105 mm for the flip covers, 210 mm for the front and back covers and an imaginary width of 27 mm for the spine.

It always makes sense to add one to two mm for the folds.

Here's an example: front back and flip.afpub

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Here you can calculate the spine: https://www.gutenberg.com.mt/spine-width-calculator

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13 minutes ago, Komatös said:

The widths are 105 mm for the flip covers, 210 mm for the front and back covers and an imaginary width of 27 mm for the spine.

My first thought was that a jacket flap width of 105 mm is rather large for a book whose front cover is 210 mm wide, and that 70 mm — i.e. one third of the front cover’s width — should suffice, but when I looked it up online a few minutes ago I saw a recommendation of 50% to 60% (or 105 mm to 126 mm for the present example).

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40 minutes ago, Alfred said:

My first thought was that a jacket flap width of 105 mm is rather large for a book whose front cover is 210 mm wide, and that 70 mm — i.e. one third of the front cover’s width — should suffice, but when I looked it up online a few minutes ago I saw a recommendation of 50% to 60% (or 105 mm to 126 mm for the present example).

The values I have used are only intended as an example. The OP would have to obtain the exact values from the print shop anyway.

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1 hour ago, Komatös said:

The OP would have to obtain the exact values from the print shop anyway.

blurb for example allows you to calculate the exact numbers on their website. Not all printshops offer a hardcover with dust jacket.

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5 hours ago, Komatös said:

You should already know as precisely as possible how wide the spine will be and how wide the flip covers should be.  The whole thing is then added to the side width of the front and back covers.

In my example, I have chosen a page height of 297 mm.
The widths are 105 mm for the flip covers, 210 mm for the front and back covers and an imaginary width of 27 mm for the spine.

It always makes sense to add one to two mm for the folds.

Here's an example: front back and flip.afpub

image.png.e283963927efba4b3871ccd762c0c33b.png

Here you can calculate the spine: https://www.gutenberg.com.mt/spine-width-calculator

Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was asking. Exact measurements are up to mu publisher folks so I just need to present a prototype and we'll tweak together. 

I'll get one started!

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