When you create a new document (File -> New), Octavo shows the template gallery. Pick Blank Document to start from scratch, or pick a template to start with everything already set up. Double-click a template (or select it and click Create) to make a new document from it.
A template stores document-level settings — imposition type, media, placement, marks, page numbers, and print settings. It doesn’t store any pages: a template is a starting point for a new document, not a copy of an old one.
Octavo comes with ready-made templates for common projects — booklets, business cards, comb binding, and the two mini zines. You’ll see paper sizes appropriate to your region (A4 booklets in most of the world, Letter in North America).
Set up a document the way you like, then choose File -> Save as Template…. Give it a name, and it’ll appear in the gallery next time you create a document.
If you’d rather keep the template file somewhere else — to share it with someone, say — choose Save in Finder… in the save sheet instead.
Because templates only save settings, you can make one from any document at any point: even a finished project works fine as a template for the next one.
Right-click a template in the gallery to Rename, Delete, or Reveal in Finder.
Templates are just files (with the .octavoTemplate extension) in your Templates folder — choose File -> Show Templates Folder in Finder to see them. You can drag template files into the gallery to add them, and if you organise them into subfolders, each folder becomes its own section in the gallery.
Double-clicking a .octavoTemplate file in Finder creates a new document from it; the template itself is never modified.
Templates remember which printer each media type uses. If a template was saved with a printer you don’t have — perhaps it came from someone else’s machine — Octavo substitutes your default printer instead.