- #HOW DO I TYPE IN A PAGE NUMBER IN A PDF VIEWER MAC SOFTWARE#
- #HOW DO I TYPE IN A PAGE NUMBER IN A PDF VIEWER MAC WINDOWS#
I would recommend the word count trick from above to get a fairly close idea, but even that can be wildly inaccurate. So, the long and short of it is that your layout and printed page count probably have very little to do with each other. In fact one of the books has a tremendous amount of padding all over the page to expand a much shorter story to the correct page count. All the books are about the same page count, but the layout varies depending on the length of the story. On the other hand, a modern fantasy novel might have a much smaller font and tighter margins then you expect to cram 400 words on a page.Īt one point in time My roommate collected the Shadownrun tie in novels. For example, a YA novel might use a larger font size to increase readability leaving only 200 words on the page. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. This means that a 75,000 word novel would be around 300 pages.Įven so, that's not a very good calculation. That being said you can usually assume about 250 words per a printed page. That's really hard to say, books are usually measured by word count and not page count.
#HOW DO I TYPE IN A PAGE NUMBER IN A PDF VIEWER MAC WINDOWS#
So far Scrivener has been a Mac-only application A Windows version is supposedly going to be available this year. With 720,000 characters with an estimate set to 250 words per page will produce a result of Is then used to divide against the total character count of the project. Number of characters per word (five including a space, for six total), the product of which Of taking the average number of words per page and multiplying it by the average Pages by paperback uses an industry standard formula (for English language publishing) I presume what I have here is an average of some kind.Įdit Here is the manual's explanation of how it calculates paperback pages: They'll pad out a short manuscript with large type and more leading, but lengthy manuscripts will correspondingly be compressed. But don't forget that publishers employ different font sizes and leading depending on how long a book is in words.
You can see that this is a little less than 400 words per page in paperback. Here's a screen shot of the statistics for a project I'm currently working on:
#HOW DO I TYPE IN A PAGE NUMBER IN A PDF VIEWER MAC SOFTWARE#
The software I use, Scrivener, offers "Project Statistics" which list words, characters, and estimates how many paperback pages (and printed pages) the manuscript will generate. That doesn't change no matter how the book is formatted. The short answer: Don't worry about page length. You 50,000 word manuscript may be half the page length of another authors 50,000 word manuscript. Even the complexity of the words you use affects how many words are on a page. If you're a wordy writer, you may have pages with a lot more than that. If you have a lot of dialog, you may have pages with a lot less than 250 words on them. Some publishers also use different fonts.Įven Fox Cutter's estimate is 250 words per page isn't useful. Publishers also use different margin sizes- some like 1 inch all around, others like 1 inch on the sides and. Books are printed in all different sizes - some large, some small. Honestly, there is no way to calculate how many pages your book will be until the publisher does all of their unique formatting and prints the book. The standard font that I've seen in my experience has been Times New Roman 12pt with 1.5 spacing.