--- title: "Preview & export" description: "Preview your book in print and on an e-reader, then export a print-ready PDF, EPUB 3, Word, standard manuscript format, Markdown, a proofreading PDF, beta-reader drafts, a submission package, and a full backup." source: https://usegalley.com/docs/preview-and-export --- # Preview & export This is the part that usually costs writers a stressful week: turning a manuscript into files a printer or store will actually accept. In Galley it's a menu. Everything between "the end" and a reader's hands lives under one button. ## The Toolkit menu Up in the book's top bar, click **Toolkit**. It opens onto everything you can make from your manuscript, grouped: Preview **Preview book** **Read-through** Manuscript **PDF** **EPUB** **Word** **Manuscript format** **Markdown** **Proofreading PDF** Tools **KDP preflight** **Share a copy** **Submission package** **Overused words** **Name consistency** **Back up everything** The last two, [Overused words](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#overused-words) and [Name consistency](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#name-consistency), are covered under [Revision](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision). Everything else is below. ## Look before you leap: Preview Before you export a single file, open **Preview book** and see exactly what you're about to produce. Two views, toggled at the top: **Print / E-reader** - **Print**: Your real printed book as a two-page spread: the exact pages a printer receives, with margins, page numbers, running heads, and chapter openings. What you see is what you'll hold. - **E-reader**: Your book as an ebook, reflowing onto a simulated e-reader or phone at the *reader's* chosen text size, not yours. Switch device and size to see how it behaves on real hardware before you publish. *Galley preview showing a print two-page spread beside a Kindle e-reader view of the same chapter.* Preview: the print spread on the left, the e-reader view on the right, from the same manuscript. ## Read it end to end: Read-through Preview shows you the pages; **Read-through** lets you actually *read*. It opens your whole book as one continuous scroll, every chapter in order, front matter to back, set in your book face with none of the editor's chrome. It's read-only on purpose: it's for the things you only catch at reading speed, a repeated beat, a scene that sags, a chapter that ends a paragraph too late, without the temptation to stop and fiddle with a single sentence. *Galley read-through mode showing The Lantern of Quiet Hours as one continuous scroll, with reading themes, text size and a progress bar.* Read-through: the whole book in one scroll, with reading themes and a progress bar. ## The files you can make A word on the formats, since the names can be cryptic. Every one is named after your book when it downloads. The print PDF gives you the real page count, which is the number a cover designer needs. The free [spine width calculator](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-spine-width-calculator) turns it into a spine and a full wrap size, and there are more of these on [the resources page](https://usegalley.com/resources). - **Print PDF**: The inside of your paperback, properly typeset and sized to your trim, with mirrored margins and a real gutter. This is what you upload for a print edition. - **EPUB**: The ebook file (EPUB 3), with your cover, tagged with your book's language, and carrying its own [accessibility metadata](https://usegalley.com/docs/accessibility#your-books). Works on Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, anywhere ebooks are sold. - **Word (.docx)**: A tidy manuscript to send an editor, with your typeface named in the document. You can bring their marked-up version back in, too. - **Manuscript format (.docx)**: The same book set the way editors and agents ask for it: 12pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, one-inch margins, indented paragraphs, your surname and title in the header of every page. It's the plain working copy someone line-edits, not the designed book that Word gives you. For a manuscript that isn't in Galley, the [Shunn format generator](https://usegalley.com/resources/shunn-manuscript-format-generator) does the same job in the browser. - **Markdown**: A plain-text copy for your own archive or other tools. Nothing proprietary, nothing locked. - **Proofreading PDF**: Two pages to a sheet, spaced out with room to mark up in pen. ## Copies made for other people - **Share a copy**: A watermarked copy for each reader, with their name printed on every page. Enter a few names and pick how they get it: an EPUB, a PDF, or a link that opens the book in a reader. A link takes a password and an expiry date, tells you whether it has been opened, and can be turned off. Your reader lands on a page naming you and the book before it opens. - **Submission package**: Your synopsis, author bio, and first three chapters, in the double-spaced format literary agents expect. No fiddling. - **KDP preflight**: A checklist run against your book before you upload to Kindle Direct Publishing, so you catch the small things (a missing ISBN, an odd trim) on your side, not in their rejection email. See [Publishing](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing). - **Back up everything**: Your entire library, story bible included, as one downloadable zip. Peace of mind in a click, and your escape hatch: your work is never trapped here. ## Glossary & references at export The apparatus you built while writing (see [the story bible](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#glossary-references)) assembles itself when you export: - The **glossary** becomes an alphabetical page at the back: each term in italics, an em dash, then its definition. - **References** become true endnotes, **numbered per chapter**. In the text you get a small superscript number; on the notes page the numbers restart each chapter, grouped under that chapter's heading, with the citation beside each. Rearrange chapters and it all renumbers itself. ## Your design comes along automatically Everything you set in [Book design](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design) (trim, typeface, chapter openings, scene breaks, running heads, justification, language) shows up in the exports without a second step. Galley also builds the table of contents, the copyright page, and the glossary and references pages, and numbers everything. You assemble nothing by hand. 📄 These are all standard, portable formats, so you're never tied to one store. See [Publishing](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing) for where each file goes and how to upload it. [PreviousRevision tools](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision) [NextPublishing](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing)