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Yes. Offizin is open source under the MIT License, which allows personal, commercial, nonprofit, government, and enterprise use at no cost. See the terms.

No. You need Microsoft Word or Google Docs, and that is all. Offizin has no sign-up and no server.

Open Offizin, enter your details on the Info tab, pick colors and fonts on the Design tab, then choose a publication on the Create tab and select Create publication. Replace the sample text and pictures, then use Check to find anything you missed.

In Word, right-click the placeholder and choose Change Picture. In Google Docs, select it, then choose Replace image in the toolbar (or right-click it). The new picture keeps the placeholder's size and place.

Yes. Pick a new scheme on the Design tab and select Apply this design to the publication. Your text stays. Pictures keep their own colors. If you change your mind, use Undo.

Print side 1, put the paper back in the printer, and print side 2. With automatic two-sided printing, choose flip on short edge for landscape publications. The Check tab has folding diagrams for each publication type.

Most home printers cannot print to the very edge of the paper, so Offizin keeps content inside a safe margin. For color that runs off the edge, send a PDF to a print shop and ask about bleed.

Print at actual size (100%), with any "fit to page" option turned off. Print a test on plain paper and hold it over the card or label sheet against a window. If everything is off by the same amount, adjust the page margins in Word's Layout tab or Google Docs' Page setup.

In Word, choose File, then Save As or Export, and pick PDF. In Google Docs, choose File, Download, then PDF document.

Publications from the Create tab bring their own page size. If yours did not change, choose Layout, then Size, then More Paper Sizes, and enter the size Offizin showed. Word on the web does not yet let add-ins change page size directly, so the Page setup buttons appear only in Word for Windows and Mac.

Your organization has turned off personal add-in uploads. Ask your IT team to deploy Offizin from the Microsoft 365 admin center. The steps are on the Word page under Whole organization.

Layout Toolkit is now Offizin. The old version still works where it is installed, but it no longer receives updates. Install Offizin from the Word page, then remove Layout Toolkit from My Add-ins.

Because you pasted Offizin into your document yourself, it is your own private script and Google has not reviewed it. Select Advanced, then Go to Offizin (unsafe). Offizin can only change the document it is in. Details are on the Google Docs page.

Reload the document. If it still does not appear, open Extensions, Apps Script, and check that the files are named exactly Code.gs and Sidebar.html, then save again.

Google's settings storage is too small for pictures, so Offizin keeps your logo in your browser. If your browser blocks storage for the sidebar, add the logo again each session, or keep it in a brand kit file on the Info tab.

Google allows private add-ons for one Workspace organization through the Google Workspace Marketplace SDK. In outline:

1. Create a standalone Apps Script project (script.google.com) owned by an account in your organization, and add the three Offizin files.
2. Link it to a standard Google Cloud project, configure the OAuth consent screen as Internal, and enable the Google Workspace Marketplace SDK.
3. Create a versioned deployment, then in the Marketplace SDK fill in the app configuration (Docs add-on) and the store listing, and choose Private visibility.
4. Publish, then install it for your domain from the Google Workspace Marketplace.

Google's guide: Publish an app to the Google Workspace Marketplace. A public Marketplace listing for Offizin is planned.