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How it works

Newsletter to PDF, in four steps

A wizard that respects your time. No accounts required to try. Your content stays in your browser — nothing ever touches a server except the URLs you paste.

01

Paste any newsletter URL

Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, Medium, or any site with an RSS feed. StackPress detects the platform automatically. Custom domains work. Paste more than one source to combine articles from multiple publications into a single book.

  • Substack (including custom domains like yoursite.com)
  • Ghost and self-hosted Ghost blogs
  • Beehiiv publications
  • Medium profiles and publications
  • Any site with RSS — WordPress, Eleventy, Jekyll, personal blogs
02

Pick the articles to include

Browse the full archive in a paginated grid. Filter by year, tag, or keyword. Sort newest, oldest, or alphabetical. One-click select-all for a filter. Up to 50 articles per book.

  • Live keyword search across titles
  • Filter by year and tag
  • Images-only toggle
  • Select-all for current filter
  • Per-source color coding when combining publications
03

Organize and lay out

Drag to reorder. Choose single or two-column layout per article. Toggle chapter cover pages. Pick how title overlays render. Decide between one merged book or separate PDFs per article.

  • Drag-to-reorder (touch friendly)
  • Per-article column layout
  • Per-article chapter cover toggle
  • Chapter cover title placement and overlay
  • Output: merged PDF with table of contents, or separate PDFs per article
04

Configure, design, download

Set book title, page size, font family and size. Pick a cover template. Add a watermark. Save format presets for reuse. Pro users get a full-screen Cover Designer with live PDF preview and color themes.

  • Helvetica, Times, Courier, Merriweather, Lato, or upload custom TTF/OTF
  • US Letter or A4 page size, 9 to 14pt font size
  • Three cover templates (Classic, Literary, Bold) plus Pro cover designer
  • Text watermark with opacity, size, position
  • EPUB export available alongside PDF

What's in every book

No lorem ipsum. Every book is professionally typeset the moment you hit generate.

Cover page

Full-bleed image with title, article count, and date.

Table of contents

Automatically generated with page numbers.

Typeset content

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, ordered and unordered lists, images, code blocks, hyperlinks.

Inline formatting

Bold, italic, bold-italic resolved per span.

Two-column layouts

Per article, blocks distributed by character weight across columns.

Chapter covers

Full-bleed image with title band, togglable per article.

Page numbers + watermark

Optional text watermark at any position.

Boilerplate stripping

Recurring subscribe CTAs and author footers detected across articles and removed automatically.

Ready?

No signup for your first book. Paste a URL and go.