Manga Studio EX4 How To Export As A PDF

This tutorial is a straight to the point guide on how to export your Manga Studio story mode book as a PDF book. If you follow my directions, you should be able to do it without hassle.

Lets just pretend all my pages are finished. Open your story if you haven’t already. You should have something that looks like this.

Next go to File >> Export>> Image in Dimensions. You should now see a window like this.

Mostly you will want to keep these settings as is. Keep the Output at Actual Size option selected, leave color depth on Monochrome 2 Gradation. That is regarding the screentonesand keeping everything purely black and white for printing. I always like to enable page numbers and author on mine but it’s up to you if you enable them or not. Then down at File Settings change the type to PDF as shown in the next image below.

Make sure the output range is set to All Pages, and make sure that the output destination is where you want it or change it so you can find it easier for later. Also if you are using a double page spread, make sure to tick/enable Separate Double Page then Output option. Then hit ok when you’re happy with your settings.

Please be extremely patient during this process and if it freezes, just wait. When I did this on my old Laptop it took 3hrs to export because it was reading and converting the tone layers for export and as some of you already know I am pretty heavy handed with screentones. Just give it time, and have patience because it is working. It’s best to export a PDF when you don’t plan to do anything else on your PC. Manga Studio can often be a resource hog.

When it’s done exporting, open your PDF in your favourite PDF reading program, review it and that’s it! It should be as flawless as it is inside manga studio and ready to use immediately on places like Lulu.com for sale! Congratulations if everything worked without a hitch!!

If you get stuck or need further help please, please, PLEASE ask for help in a comment below.

Happy inking guys!!