ZineTool Make an eight-page mini-zine
Turn your drawings, photos, or a PDF into a little booklet from one sheet of A4 or US Letter paper. Arrange your pages here; ZineTool puts them in the right order for printing and folding. Everything runs locally in your browser, with no uploads.
Make your zine
Bring your artwork
Choose A4 or US Letter to match your printer, then start a new zine. Both formats make eight pages, including the front and back covers, from one sheet.
Import PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, or PDF files. A multi-page PDF opens a page picker; you can import selected pages and fill the zine with them. Make text and illustrations in your favorite drawing or writing app first, then bring them in.
Arrange, resize, and rotate artwork on pages 1–8. Page 1 is the front cover; page 8 is the back. Check the folded preview and print-readiness notices before exporting, especially the printer margins and low-resolution warnings.
Choose the right download
- Printable PDF
- All eight pages arranged on one sheet, ready to print and fold. Some pages look upside down on the sheet; they turn the right way up when folded.
- Reading-order PDF
- Eight PDF pages in order, for reading on screen or sharing digitally.
- Project file (.zine.zip)
- Your editable layout and images. Download a copy, then use “Import project” to continue later or on another computer.
ZineTool autosaves in this browser. Keep a project file as your own backup; clearing browser data also clears the autosave.
Print one sheet, fold eight pages
You need a printer, one sheet of paper, and scissors. No staples or glue. The editor’s Assembly step has an animated 3D folding guide; it needs WebGL.
- Print the printable PDF. Use the matching A4 or US Letter paper, landscape orientation, one-sided printing, and 100% or “actual size”. Turn off “fit to page”. Keep important artwork inside your printer’s printable area.
- Crease a grid of eight panels. Fold the sheet in half lengthwise with the printed side out, then unfold. Fold in half the other way, fold each half back to the middle, and unfold again. You now have two rows of four panels.
- Make one slit. Cut only the middle half of the long center crease, across the two middle panels. Stop at the quarter-fold creases; leave the outer panels joined.
- Close the booklet. Fold lengthwise again, printed side out, and push the ends toward each other so the slit opens into a diamond. Bring the four wings together and fold them into a flat booklet, with page 1 at the front and page 8 at the back.
Your artwork stays in your browser
Imports, previews, autosave, and PDF exports happen on your computer. There is no account to create and no file upload to a server. Curious how it works? I wrote about building ZineTool.