Create a Custom Book Theme Using Atticus Formatting Software [2024 Version]

Formatting a beautiful, professional quality book is easy with Atticus, and you can set up a custom theme in just a few clicks. This tutorial will guide you through the entire process and give you all the tools you need to set your book apart from all your competition.

[Atom.Storm.]

As someone who has been using Scrivener for years and the absolute nightmare its comiple feature is, this is so good. I can't wait to get it and get cracking.

[boripentek]

Very helpful! Thank you! Keep up the good work Atticus! ❤

[Moleanimationchannel]

I’m so glad I bought this program. It’s pretty awesome ❤

[natalinabell]

This was so helpful. Thank you so much.

[ElaraNorthwind]

I am having problems with chapter images. I only purchased Atticus a few days ago to format my book, and am able to add a chapter image but it's huge, and maybe I'm blind but I can't seem to find a way to make it smaller? As it is, it's taking up the whole page 🤪 I can't find anything online so perhaps somebody here might know how I do that? ☺

[ivnpck]

Min 1:26 I just bought atticus, My book is in spanish, I don't want says Chapter, I want CAPITULO, how do I change that?

[rubyglasspoolastrology]

Great video - thanks! Only issue I have is that I have set an image to appear at the start of each chapter - however visually it sits really close to below the subtitle and then there's a big gap before the chapter starts. I'd prefer the image to sit just above the paragraph, not just below the title - is there a way of moving it down?

[Kshama]

Thanks for this video. Is there a way to create a page with two columns of text instead of just one? If not, please consider adding this feature as it would be most helpful. Thank you.

[NathanGregoryAuthor]

I understand the mechanics of setting up a theme, and this video does a great job of explaining it. Kudos for that, it's very helpful. But... What I continue to flail about with, is the esthetics, by which I mean the underlying philosophy, the 'why' of selecting various options. Genre would seem to be the most significant driver of, say, font choice. e.g., For sci-fi, a google search uncovers a bewildering array of fonts. However, NONE of those deemed most popular or most common are offered, and of the ones that are, I can find no point of comparison. e.g., for my current WiP, in the theme Atreides, (a name which appears to relate to Dune, thus might be a good Sci-fi theme, except no where does Atticus tell us that.) the default font for the chapter title is called 'Crushed.' All I find online is that it's a google font for typeface. Duh. The fundamental question I come back to, is what theme should I use for my book, and why? How do I make a choice? Why Atreides vs. Aether? Both names are meaningless to me. Why not name the Themes 'Futuristic SciFi' or 'Cozy Mystery' or 'Adventure' or something that relates their esthetic choices to a genre or sub-genre? A good video discussing how to pick a themes vs genre, and popular choices and options within the genres would seem invaluable to me.

[e_vantuallythenomad]

Regarding Ordered List, how many levels of indentation can you do. Can you do ii, iii etc. Another question is how do you split chapters if your chapter is too long so that once you print or send to ebook it will be one chapter? Thank you.

[danieldydekauthor]

Up to now I've been using Scrivener but, after consistent formatting headaches, am looking to switch. One thing Scrivener does that it appears Atticus does not, is allowing a different header/footer format for the start of a chapter. Most especially, I've loved having a footer-centered page number for chapter heading pages, but page numbers in the header for the rest of the chapter. Is there, or will there ever, be any way to do this in Atticus?

[laurapalka]

Does Atticus support special keyboard characters like diacritical marks, even simple ones such an a tilde or umlaut as these are often carried into English conversations and jargon? Thank you.

[robertgoulart]

Hello - great insight thank you …my question is - my wife edits my work and I would like her to share with me this program—however if I’m understanding it right she would have to “own” it also another words her email would have to be connected to a Atticus account. I hope I’m worng

[mikek]

I am seeing broken images in few of my chapter headings, not all though, not only in the kindle preview, but when I email my kindle the epub, the broken chapter img

[WingedWanderDonkey-pmpm]

Hi how about bleed options? How can we now bleed sizes? Cover and inside

[mikek]

6:20 my book is less than 150 pages… recommendations for marginal Seth?

[KaterinaFerrara]

One major problem I have with Jutoh is it hyphenates paperback and I hate that. Are you saying if I turn off the hyphen button I can avoid hyphenations?

[nataledibartolo]

Video di grande interesse e aiuto. Per favore, potreste dirmi come posso cambiare l'indicazione del capitolo dall'inglese Chapter One a Capitolo Uno o Capitolo 1 in italiano? Grazie

[jameslsjay]

Can you tell me the best format for the images to be uploaded? .jpg or .png and size? I cannot see any information on this.

[ethereal-fortress]

is there a Theme for the old sci-fi paperback novels? With book size, classic old novel fonts, and indentation