Re: 2-UP Process Optimization

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know that the Quite Imposing PLUS version will. There are booklet making
features, general imposition features, step-and-repeat features, and various
manual modes. It is indeed a Swiss Army Knife. There are indeed few products
that I am as impressed with as this!

        - Dov


At 2/2/2001 09:41 AM, Thomas Neuburger wrote:
>Dov -- Will Quite Imposing handle 2-up situations -- for example, if I want a 8.5 x 5.5 page 1 to be printed twice on an 8.5 x 11 page?
>
>Tom Neuburger
>
>
>Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
>>I don't know what they mean by the "PostScript printer resource files", but
>>we believe that the best way to deal with booklets and imposition types of
>>issues is to author your document using logical page sizes. If I understand
>>your situation here, that logical page size would be 8.5"x5.5". Compose your
>>document is logical page order, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
>>
>>Then, create a PDF file with the pages in that same logical page size with
>>pages in logical order.
>>
>>You can then use an Acrobat plug-in, such as Quite Imposing or Quite Imposing
>>Plus from Quite Software to create a booklet of those logical pages on 8.5"x11"
>>pages. The plug-in queries you for the parameters for the booklet and/or
>>special imposition requirements and it does the rest.
>>
>>In this way, you can use FrameMaker for what it does best without resorting
>>to nasty hackery (multiple logical pages on a FrameMaker page with multiple
>>frames in oddball orders --- OUCH!) and let Acrobat and PDF do what it does
>>best.
>>
>>        - Dov
>>
>>Charles Dowdell wrote:
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>I am currently trying to decide the best way to set some booklets as 2-up on
>>>8.5 x11 paper. The docutec folks are urging me (and I see their point) to
>>>set it up for them in the PDF or Postscript printer resource files.
>>>
>>>What have other folks done to accomplish this in the best way?
>>>
>>>Win NT 4.0, FrameMaker 5.5.6, PS Driver 5.1.2
>>>
>>>Charlie Dowdell


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