RE: Imposition add ins

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll confirm that Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus are
absolute "no-brainers" in terms of reasonable cost PDF-based
imposition functions. And the functions that can be handled by
Quite Imposing Plus are certainly non-trivial. I've very successfully
imposed books for four color offset printing composed of multiple 
signatures with Quite Imposing Plus very quickly and efficiently.
The author of these plug-ins, Aandi Inston of Quite Software,
produces some of the best, reliable software that I have seen in
a long time and in exceptionally responsive when any problem is
encountered by a user. These Acrobat plug-ins as well as a few
others he offers are available for both Mac and Windows!

There is also another Acrobat plug-in that offers similar
functionality. It is called PDF Snake. Available only for Windows,
more information is available at <http://www.pdfsnake.com/>. 

        - Dov

At 4/9/2003 02:46 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel wrote:
>Malcolm,
>
>the best (low budget) solution we've found is to do imposition in acrobat,
>using the pdf generated from the FrameMaker files.
>
>Tweaking is no problem, as long as you don't want to reflow text. You can
>manually rearrange pages or use utilities.
>
>Quit Imposing Plus (http://www.quite.com/) is very handy, especially for
>simple stuff like A5 booklets printed on A4+ or A3+ and stitched and
>guillotined down. I'm not sure if it's available for the MAC?
>
>Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,
>
>Wim Hooghwinkel <mailto:wimh@scriptware.nl> 
>DTP and Project Management
>
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>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Malcolm Melville [mailto:malcolm@ixa2a.com]
>Verzonden: dinsdag 8 april 2003 22:22
>Aan: framers@FrameUsers.com
>Onderwerp: Imposition add ins
>
>
>I have been asked recently about laying some Framemaker documents 
>ready for printing and binding. Previously these documents were 
>simply printed on a duplex printer.
>
>I thought there has to be an imposition addin that will understand 
>the text flows in Framemaker, and then could not find what I was 
>looking for. The imposition all seems to be post processing which is 
>fine but makes tweaking a bit cumbersome.
>
>Does anyone have some recommendations on how they handle imposition, 
>even simple stuff like A5 booklets printed on A4+ or A3+ and stitched 
>and guillotined down? (Handling bound sections would be neat as well 
>as some of the docs are too long to be done as a one off.)
>
>I was wondering about moving the content into InDesign just to make 
>it easier, but that seems a bit foolish, or there's QXP for the 
>retro-minded I suppose :-)
>
>Anyone with any experience  I would be pleased to hear from. Oh, and 
>since it seems that some of the tools are platform specific, I would 
>like it on a Mac!
>
>Thank you.
>malcolm


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