Questions about bukpress, answered

No. If you can write a heading with a # and a bold word with two asterisks, you already know enough. Everything else — page breaks, dividers, page numbers, spacing — is handled by the editor or by a design setting, not by syntax you have to memorise.

Yes — that is the point of the build. The browser preview paginates with the same page rules the server-side renderer uses, so page breaks, margins and page numbers line up. It's a preview of the actual file, not an approximation of it.

No — and not as an oversight. Free exports come out clean, exactly like Pro exports. The free plan is limited by how many books you export a month and how long each one can be, never by branding stamped onto your work.

Yes. Every plan picks its page from eight bundled paper textures; Essentials adds covers, your own background image and Google Fonts import; Pro adds uploading your own licensed .ttf or .otf files. Anything in your font library works on every book in your account, and gets embedded in the export.

The PDF is fixed A4 pages — what you'd send to print or hand out as a lead magnet. The EPUB reflows to whatever screen it's read on, carrying your fonts, colors and heading styles. EPUB export is on the Pro plan.

Yes, on every plan. You own what you write and what you export. We don't claim rights to your content and we don't put our name on it.

A single $149 payment for everything the Pro plan has, forever — including future Pro upgrades — plus first access to beta features. It's capped at 250 people and enforced at the database level, so once it's sold out it's genuinely gone rather than quietly re-opened.

bukpress is a web app that turns a Markdown manuscript into a typeset PDF and a reflowable EPUB. You write in plain text, set the typography once, and the pagination, page breaks, page numbers, margins and font embedding are handled for you — the work you would otherwise do by hand in a layout application.

No. bukpress runs in the browser and renders exports on the server, so there is nothing to download and no local toolchain to keep working. The file you get is identical whichever browser or operating system you made it on.

Yes. Drop the file into the editor and it loads as a project, or paste the text straight in. Everything autosaves as you go.

Usually seconds. The render runs on our side rather than in your browser, so you can queue an export and keep writing — the finished file appears in your exports list when it is done.

Put --- on its own line. A line of ---- prints an ornamental divider instead of breaking the page. Both are plain Markdown, so your file stays readable in any other editor.

Because standard Markdown treats a single newline as a space and only breaks a paragraph on a blank line. bukpress treats one Enter as a real line break, which is what you want for poetry, addresses, verse and anything else where the line is the unit.

Yes. If a table runs past the bottom of a page, its header row repeats at the top of the next one rather than leaving orphaned rows with no labels.

A4, with margins you set in points. Line height, page numbers and the paper the text sits on are all yours to change; the preview repaginates as you do.

Yes. Whatever typeface you choose is embedded in the PDF and packaged into the EPUB, so the book looks the same on a machine that has never had that font installed.

A saved design — your typefaces, sizes, colours, margins and paper — under a name, with a live specimen card. Apply it to any book in one click so the second book starts where the first one finished. Essentials includes one kit; Pro allows several.

Yes, and it needs no card. It gives you 20 exports a month, books up to 40 pages, the four bundled font families and PDF export — with no watermark. It is limited by volume, never by branding stamped on your work.

Yes. Both recurring plans bill annually at ten times the monthly price, so a year costs the same as ten months. Essentials is $9 a month or $90 a year; Pro is $24 a month or $240 a year.

Yes, at any time from your billing page — there is no cancellation flow to sit through. The books you have already exported are files you downloaded, so they stay yours regardless.

You do. You keep every right to what you write and what you export, on every plan including the free one. bukpress claims nothing over your content and puts no name of ours on it.

From the data deletion page at buk.press/data-deletion, which removes the account along with every project, export and uploaded file attached to it. What is stored and how it is handled is set out in full in the privacy policy.