How to make your own Bible and print it anywhere — translation, scope, trim size, print-ready PDF

Short answer: You can make and print your own Bible in three choices — translation, scope (whole Bible, a Testament, or a single book) and trim size. Tringine typesets it and returns a print-ready PDF with correct trim, margins and bleed that any print shop or print-on-demand service accepts, plus reading PDFs and an EPUB. Preview is free; it is in beta.

People keep asking us two versions of the same question. A pastor preaching through Romans for a season asks whether there is a booklet of just Romans, in the translation the congregation actually uses. A study group asks for a New Testament with generous margins. A church running outreach wants a Gospel of John it can hand out by the box.

The honest answer used to be: not unless a publisher happens to have made exactly that. Now the answer is Tringine.

What it does

You make three choices:

The translation.
The scope — the whole Bible, a Testament, or any set of books down to a single one.
The trim size — the physical dimensions of the book you want to hold.

Tringine then typesets it and hands you four files: a print-ready PDF with correct trim, margins and bleed — the file a print shop or a print-on-demand service like Lulu accepts without questions — plus light and dark reading PDFs for screens, and an EPUB 3 for e-readers.

Tringine is the third publication engine we have built. The first produced our catalogue of parallel Bibles — 4,268 editions across 30 languages. The second was an AI books engine, and we retired it: it taught us a great deal about typesetting at scale, and something more important about what we actually wanted to publish. Tringine is the Bible engine reinvented with what both predecessors taught us — and pointed at you this time, not just at us.

We do not run a press, and we never will. Ten years of publishing taught us that the hard part is not printing — the world is full of good print shops — it is producing the file a press will accept without sending it back. Margins, bleed, spine math, page flow through poetry and genealogies: that is the part Tringine does, because it is the same typesetting our own 4,268 published editions go through.

What churches actually build with it

A Gospel booklet for outreach — one book, small trim, printed by the hundred locally.
A New Testament for a class — the translation the class reads, in a format that lies flat next to a notebook.
The books of a preaching series — Romans this autumn, printed as its own volume, so everyone is holding the same pages.

The honest fine print

Tringine is newer than the rest of our estate and still in beta — priced accordingly, and the current terms live on its own site rather than in this post, so nothing here can go stale.

What it builds is for your own use — a congregation, a class, an outreach box. It does not come with an ISBN and it is not a licence to resell; the licensing page says exactly where the line is. If you want to publish a book of your own — your writing, not a Bible — with an ISBN and a store listing, that is Junifye's job, and if you want a finished Bible from our own catalogue, the store holds 4,268 editions in 30 languages.

Try it

Preview a build free at tringine.publifye.pro — pick the translation, the scope and the trim, and see the pages before deciding anything. If your congregation needs help with any of this — or with the website, the email, the publishing pipeline around it — that is a thing we do now.

Frequently asked

Can I print my own Bible legally?

For your own congregation, class or outreach use, yes, in the translations Tringine offers; the licensing page states the exact terms per translation. Reselling requires separate rights and an ISBN, which Tringine does not provide.

Which file does a print shop need for a Bible?

A PDF with the trim size set, interior margins sized for the spine width, and bleed if anything runs to the page edge. Tringine's print-ready PDF has all three, so a shop or a service such as Lulu accepts it as delivered.

Can I print just one book, like the Gospel of John or Romans?

Yes. Scope goes down to a single book, which is the most common request: a Gospel for outreach or the book a preaching series is working through.

How much does it cost?

Previewing a build is free. Current prices and terms live on tringine.publifye.pro, which is where the beta pricing will change.

Build a preview free: tringine.publifye.pro — choose translation, scope and trim, and see the pages before you decide.

Written by Jørn André Halseth, founder of Publifye AS — ten years publishing Bibles and building the presses they run on, publisher of 4,200+ Bible editions, and the author of Darash, Junifye, Lexifye and Tringine. About · Contact