PageCraft User Guide
How to create custom notebook, graph, and handwriting pages.
Create a print-ready notebook PDF in a few simple steps.
PageCraft runs fully in your browser. Choose a paper type, adjust page and line settings, preview the result, then generate a crisp vector PDF for printing or saving.
Getting Started
- Open PageCraft in a modern browser such as Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.
- Select a paper type from the visual cards in the left panel.
- Choose a page size, page count, margins, line color, opacity, and line weight.
- Watch the live preview update as you make changes.
- Click Generate PDF when the preview looks right.
Paper Types
| College Ruled | Uses 9/32 inch line spacing, a common choice for everyday notes and schoolwork. |
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| Narrow Ruled | Uses 1/4 inch line spacing for denser writing and more lines per page. |
| Wide Ruled | Uses 11/32 inch line spacing for larger handwriting and younger writers. |
| Gregg Ruled | Uses wide ruling with a vertical center dividing line for stenography-style notes. |
| Children's Handwriting | Creates wide handwriting bands with solid guide lines and a red dashed midline. |
| Graph Paper | Creates square grid or isometric grid paper with configurable minor and major intervals. |
Page Size
Use the page size dropdown to choose Letter, Legal, A4, A5, Half Letter, or Custom. Custom reveals width and height inputs measured in inches.
For most home printers in the United States, Letter is the safest default. For international printing, A4 is usually the better choice.
Margins & Header
Top, bottom, left, and right margins are entered in inches. The ruled or grid content is drawn inside those boundaries.
- Red left line draws a traditional notebook margin line at the left margin.
- Red right line optionally draws a matching line at the right margin.
- Header area reserves space at the top and adds a horizontal divider before the page body begins.
Line Styling
The global line controls affect most blue or gray guide lines in the page design.
- Line color can be selected with the color picker or quick swatches.
- Line opacity controls how light or dark the guide lines appear.
- Line weight changes line thickness between Thin, Normal, and Bold.
Margin lines always remain red so they keep the traditional notebook look.
Graph Paper Settings
Graph Paper adds extra controls that appear only when the graph paper type is selected.
- Minor interval sets the size of each small grid square. You can enter inches or millimeters.
- Major every controls how often a stronger grid line appears. A value of 5 means every fifth minor line is major.
- Major weight and Major opacity control the stronger grid lines independently.
- Isometric grid switches from square graph paper to triangular/isometric guide lines for 3D sketching.
Children's Handwriting
Children's Handwriting paper is designed for early writing practice. Each writing band includes a top guide line, a red dashed midline, and a bottom baseline, with clear spacing before the next band.
Use the midline opacity slider to make the red dashed guide more subtle or more visible. A lower opacity is useful for older children, while a stronger midline can help beginning writers.
Double-Sided Printing
Turn on Double-sided when you plan to print duplex pages for a bound notebook. PageCraft mirrors the binding margin on even-numbered pages so the red margin line alternates correctly.
Single-sided mode makes every page identical.
PDF Export
Click Generate PDF to render every page and download a PDF. The progress bar updates while pages are generated, which is helpful for large documents.
Filenames reflect the selected settings, such as college-ruled-letter-12pages.pdf or childrens-handwriting-letter-12pages.pdf.
Printing Tips
- Print at 100% scale or choose “Actual size” when exact spacing matters.
- Avoid “Fit to page” if you need ruled or graph spacing to remain precise.
- Use lighter opacity for subtle writing guides and higher opacity for worksheets.
- For binder or spiral-bound pages, use a larger left margin and enable double-sided mode when printing duplex.
- Generate a one-page PDF first when testing a new paper setup, then increase the page count once it looks right.