Markdown & CSS, typeset for print

Write it in Markdown. Print it for real.

Gutterpress turns a folder of markdown files into a professionally typeset PDF: the kind you send to an offset printer or a print-on-demand service. It uses a native Chromium print engine and the W3C CSS Paged Media spec, so page breaks, running headers, columns, page numbers, and bleed are handled for you.

Download the desktop app Get started

my-book/

$ npm install -g gutterpress
$ ls my-book
chapter-01.md  chapter-02.md
$ gutterpress build ./my-book

The whole surface *.md manifest.yaml @page @section --gp-* markdown, a manifest, and CSS custom properties.

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Getting started

Install, create your first project, preview it live and build the PDF.

Read the guide →

Writing content

Typography, lists, tables, and the layout markers that place your pages.

Start writing →

Styling & theming

Restyle a whole book by setting CSS custom properties, fonts and page templates.

Style your book →

This site is built from the same user guide Gutterpress prints as a book, so it cannot drift from it. All documentation →

What it does

Print production, from a text editor

Live preview

Paginated layout: your book renders the way it will print, while you edit.

PDF export

From the app, or from the gutterpress CLI in scripts and CI.

Print-ready output

PDF/X with CMYK and an ICC profile for offset printers, PDF/A for archives.

Custom CSS for everything

Typography, page size, margins, columns, running headers and footers, page numbers, bleed.

Plugins

Use any of hundreds of markdown-it plugins for custom markdown, or write your own.

Validation

Before and after a build: image DPI, color space, font embedding, structural PDF checks.

Publishing

To itch.io, DriveThruRPG, Amazon KDP, Azure Static Web Apps, Shopify, and Google Drive.

Releases

What's new

2026-10-09