About printing and type setting
This is not exactly a bookbinding technical question but please bear with me for a moment.
This will be my first time bookbinding a book with an actual text block. So far, everything I've done and all my commisions have been of blanks or minimal detail on the pages, so typesetting has never been a problem before.
But. Now I'm left with a text, which I'm formatting in word and will convert into a pdf to run it through bookbinding-js, but I still have some queries I can't seem to find an answer for.
The book will be a little smaller than A5, and I'll be printing on a house printer on A4 paper. I'm worried the margins will get lost during the printing process and prevent me from cutting the edges of the block—like, the text won't print in the middle of the page but in a corner instead, due to all the blank space.
Is this a warranted concern or am I just overthinking this?
The only reason I am in this pickle is I made a recasing of a book for a friend as a gift and they loved it, and now an aquaintance of his has asked if I'd be willing to take a commission for him for something similar. The problem is that I recased that book for my friend and absolutly HATED the experience. The block was poorly glued, and the spine was flimsy and shitty and I was barely able to hold it together as I fixed it. To be honest, I rather do everything myself and sew the block from scratch because it was SO frustrating.