Your layout.
But print‑ready.

The editor and print-ready PDF export are completely free, no account or credit card needed – you save your work as a .laydo file. A paid Pro plan (€6/month) adds unlimited pages, automatic saving of your documents, the Brand-Kit, mail merge (CSV, Excel, copy-paste) and IDML export.

Bleed is extra artwork extending past the trim edge (3 mm by default in LaydoStudio). Without it, small cutting inaccuracies at the print shop leave a white sliver at the edge — many print shops will reject a PDF without bleed outright. LaydoStudio adds and checks it automatically.

Yes — colors are converted to CMYK on export, not just relabeled RGB, so what you see matches what a print shop's press actually produces. Technically: a real ICC output intent is embedded — PSO Coated v3/FOGRA51 (European Color Initiative, eci.org) by default, or GRACoL2013 (Idealliance) automatically for inch/US users — and the file is marked PDF/X-4, the print industry's standard for reliable color-managed exchange.

No — every font is embedded directly into the exported PDF, so the print shop receives exactly the typeface you designed with, never an automatic substitute.

A print-ready PDF with optional crop marks is free for everyone; Pro adds IDML export – build the draft yourself, then hand it to a graphic designer to perfect in Adobe InDesign if needed.

No — LaydoStudio is built for people without a graphic-design studio: sensible defaults like bleed and safety margin are set automatically, and the Inspector flags anything that would cause trouble in print – from lines that are too thin to type that is too small – before you export.

Not your layouts, documents or Brand-Kit — LaydoStudio runs entirely in your browser, and everything stays in your own folder, in your browser’s local storage or as a file. With Pro, we additionally store your email address (for login), your subscription status and your custom formats and settings (can be switched off), so they’re available across devices. Besides that, stock-photo search queries go to Unsplash/Pexels, fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, and an anonymous, cookieless visit counter runs in the background.

It fills one template with names or other data from a CSV file, an Excel/Numbers spreadsheet, or data pasted straight from Excel/Numbers — built for clubs and event organizers producing name badges, tickets or start numbers for many people at once, generated as a single batch PDF automatically (Pro feature).

Yes — send your finished layout to Snuglay, the print family's free nesting tool, with one click. Built for clubs, label makers and event organizers, it arranges as many copies as fit onto a sheet or roll automatically, including crop marks and true-shape nesting for freeform labels.

Yes — place an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) or PDF file and it stays real, infinitely scalable vector data in your layout and in the export, not a rasterized image. Perfect for bringing in an existing logo or artwork, free on every plan.

The Brand-Kit (Pro) keeps your corporate design in one place: company details, team members, brand colours, logo and brand fonts. Ready-made blocks such as a contact block, return address or footer go in with one click and stay linked to the Brand-Kit. For several brands you simply create several Brand-Kits, and you can hand one over as a .laydokit file – for example from an agency to its client.

For free, you save and open .laydo files yourself, just like in a desktop app (File → Save). With Pro it happens automatically and stays with you: in Chrome and Edge in a folder of your choice (Dropbox, iCloud Drive or a network drive work well), in Safari and Firefox in the browser’s local storage – there you save a work package as a file now and then. Tip for Safari: add LaydoStudio to the Dock or Home Screen as a web app. Your documents never end up on our servers.