School & college course books

Textbook design & page layout

A school page is read under pressure, often in poor light. The grid decides how much of that pressure the reader carries: where a worked example sits relative to the problem it explains, how a figure is captioned, whether a table breaks across a spread. We build the type system and the grid first, then flow the book into it.

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What you receive

The handover

Finished files

Production-ready output in the format your printer, platform or workshop actually needs — press PDF, editable source, CAD file, font binary or deck, as the work requires.

Editable sources

The working files, not just the export, so your team can change the work later without coming back to us.

Full rights

Two revision rounds

Included in the quoted price. Corrections are logged against the draft rather than argued over on a call.

How it works

Five steps, and you approve the first three

01 · Brief

You tell us what the finished thing has to do, and send whatever material you already have.

02 · Scope & price

A written scope, a fixed figure and a delivery date, usually within one working day.

03 · Structure

You sign off the architecture before production starts, so nothing large is built on a wrong assumption.

04 · Production

Work arrives in stages as it finishes, not all at the end, with two revision rounds included.

05 · Handover

Files, sources and rights in your hands, and the invoice closed.

Related in this division

Often commissioned together

In detail

Textbook design & page layout — how we produce it

Design begins with three sample spreads — a chapter opener, a dense worked-example page and a figure-heavy page — which you approve before the full book is laid out. Press PDFs and editable InDesign sources are both handed over. From $4 per page.

Because writers, translators, designers, draughtspeople and typesetters sit in the same building in Chennai, this can be commissioned together with everything around it: translation into any of a hundred-plus languages, the figures and illustrations, the typesetting, the presentation and the production files. One schedule, one point of contact, one invoice.

Pricing is quoted in US dollars and fixed in writing before work starts. Fifty per cent is payable in advance and the balance on delivery, with long projects staged so neither side carries the whole risk. Two revision rounds are included, and copyright transfers to you in full on final payment, together with the editable source files.

Where we deliver it

Textbook design & page layout for clients in a hundred cities

Work is delivered by email and shared drive, quoted in US dollars and scheduled against your time zone, so where you are makes no difference to the schedule. Clients commission textbook design & page layout from the following cities.

Textbook design & page layout in Chennai
Textbook design & page layout in Bengaluru
Textbook design & page layout in Hyderabad
Textbook design & page layout in Mumbai
Textbook design & page layout in Delhi
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Textbook design & page layout in Al Ain
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Textbook design & page layout in Umm Al Quwain
Textbook design & page layout in Doha
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Textbook design & page layout in Kuwait City
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Questions

Before you commission

How much does textbook design & page layout cost?

Prices are fixed in writing before work begins. Scope, language count and turnaround move the figure; volume across a programme brings it down. Send the brief and you have a number within a working day.

How long does it take?

Most single deliverables run three to fourteen weeks depending on length and complexity. Programmes are staged so early parts reach you while later parts are still in production. You get a date with the quote.

Who does the work?

A specialist from our school & college course books team, with an editor and a production person on the same project. Everyone is bound by the same confidentiality terms.

Do I own the result?

Yes. Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production-ready files on final payment. Nothing is resold or reused.

Do you hand over the InDesign files?

Yes. Press-ready PDFs, packaged InDesign sources with fonts and links, and the image files at full resolution. Your own team or another studio can pick the book up later without coming back to us.

Do you work with clients outside India?

Yes. Publishers, institutions and founders in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and Japan. Work is delivered by email and shared drive and quoted in US dollars.

An academic writer drafting a chapter at the Content Factory agency in Chennai

An editor proofreading a manuscript with a fountain pen

A translator timing captions across twin screens

A draughtsman dimensioning an engineering drawing

The team in discussion in the studio lounge

Rights

You own everything

Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production files on final payment.

Confidentiality

NDA before anything is sent

Most of our work carries the client’s name, not ours.

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The agency

Fifteen years in production

Writers, translators, designers and typesetters on the same project, in the same building.

Two colleagues reviewing a layout on screen

Approvals

You sign off before we build

Structure agreed before production starts, so nothing large rests on an unchecked assumption.

Scale

Seven countries, a hundred cities

Delivered by email and shared drive, quoted in US dollars, scheduled against your time zone.

Colleagues reviewing translated work together

Languages

A hundred-plus languages

Translation and typesetting in one studio, so layout matches across editions.

Send a brief

Tell us what you need made

Send the brief and we reply with a scope, a fixed price and a date — usually within one working day. Whole programmes are quoted the same way as single titles.

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