For zine makers
Mini zines and booklets, straight from your PDF.
The classic one-sheet, eight-page mini zine, a stapled A5 zine, or a pocket A6 booklet: drop in your PDF, pick the layout, and Foldio arranges every page and tells you how to cut and fold.
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The one-page zine
Eight pages on one side of one sheet, the top row upside down, with the slit marked. Print, cut, fold.
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Collage-friendly
Mix scanned pages, photos and PDFs, reorder them by dragging, and drop in blank pages.
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Covers on card
Print the cover separately on heavier paper, as a wraparound or front and back.
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Print runs at home
Check every sheet once, then print as many copies as you need from one PDF.
How to
A zine in three steps.
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Make your pages at A5
Design at 148 × 210 mm in any tool, or scan your paste-ups, and export them as one PDF (or add the scans as images).
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Pick the layout
One-page zine for an 8-page mini zine, Saddle stitch for a stapled A5 zine or, with Pro, Cut, stack & fold for a pocket A6 booklet.
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Print and fold
Print at 100% and follow the folding steps Foldio shows for your layout: slit and fold for the one-page zine, fold and staple for booklets.
14 days free
Many copies at once
The Copies layout, part of Pro, puts several copies of a small zine on every sheet: cut the stack apart and each pile folds into its own zine. Try it during your free trial of Pro.
Questions
Good to know.
What size is an A5 zine?
A5 is 148 × 210 mm, half of A4. It’s the classic zine size: one A4 sheet folded in half makes four A5 pages.
Can Foldio make an 8-page one-sheet zine?
Yes. Choose the One-page zine layout: Foldio puts your eight pages on one side of the sheet, top row upside down, and marks the slit. Each sheet makes one zine.
Can I use scans and photos?
Yes. Add images (JPG or PNG) and PDFs together; each image becomes a page you can reorder, rotate or crop.
Is it free?
Yes. The Free plan covers folded books, stapled booklets, one-page zines and loose-sheet books, with no account, no watermark and no page limit. Pro adds more layouts and a cover designer, and you can try it free for 14 days with no card.
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