Preparing Your Thesis PDF

Before uploading your thesis or dissertation for print, please carefully review your PDF to ensure everything appears exactly as intended. Taking a few minutes to check your document can help avoid formatting issues and printing delays.

Important Information

We print files exactly as submitted and cannot take responsibility for:

  • formatting issues
  • spelling or grammatical errors
  • missing pages
  • incorrect file versions
  • PDF export problems

Please review your PDF carefully before completing your order.

Need Help? If you are having difficulty preparing or exporting your PDF, please contact us and we’ll be happy to help.

Thesis PDF Guidelines

How To Save Your Thesis As A PDF

  1. Open your completed document
  2. Proofread and make any final corrections
  3. Select File → Save As
  4. Choose PDF as the file format
  5. Save the file
  6. Open the exported PDF and review it carefully before uploading

Please keep a copy of your original Word document (.doc or .docx) in case further edits are needed later.

Pre-upload Checklist

✔ Layouts and formatting appear correctly
✔ All page numbers are included
✔ Images, graphs, and charts are clear and readable
✔ Margins are correct
✔ No pages are missing or cut off
✔ This is your final version

Margins & Page Layout

We recommend using 3 cm inside (left) margin and 2 cm margins on all other sides.

If your college or university requires larger margins, please follow their specific guidelines. We are happy to print according to your institution’s requirements.

Double-Sided Printing Guidelines

If you are printing double-sided, please ensure your document formatting is suitable for duplex printing.

We recommend:

  • Using even margins throughout the document
  • Positioning page numbers at the bottom centre of each page
  • Starting each new chapter on an odd-numbered page. (This may mean leaving some even-numbered pages blank between chapters.)