What's new in Quite Imposing 3.0f
Feb 21, 2014
- New functions:
- Tile Pages (Quite Imposing Plus only):
- Splits pages into multiple separate pages
- Split spreads e.g. in PDFs made using new mixed-size feature in InDesign CS5, by using Split Only Wide Pages option
- Tile or un-impose
- Optionally add overlap and bleed
- Page Tools (Quite Imposing Plus only):
- Easily duplicate pages, with or without collation, without bloating file size
- Fix orientation. Quickly deal with a document that has a mixture of tall and wide portrait and landscape) pages through automatic selective rotation
- Move, rotate, or delete pages in a document. Valuable in Automation Sequences.
- Adjust Page Sizes (Quite Imposing Plus only):
- Simple and flexible way to change page sizes
- Can scale equally or anamorphically, or use crop/add white space
- Can maintain bleed dimensions
- Can be used to only enlarge or only reduce page sizes
- Can be used to just check page sizes instead of changing them
- Updated functions:
- Stick On Text and Numbers (was Stick On Page Num- bers) (Quite Imposing Plus only)
- Variable data on pages or sheets, such as page count, file name, date and time, document title
- Numbering need not be in steps of 1 (e.g. 10, 20, 30, or 9, 8, 7)
- Numbers can be repeated before continuing (e.g. 001, 001, 002, 002) - useful for numbering multi-page originals
- You can skip pages in numbering, e.g. to number every fifth page.
- Insert Pages (was Insert Blank Pages) (Quite Imposing
- Plus only):
- Insert pages from a file, with the option of duplicating pages as they are inserted
- Conditionally add pages from file or blank pages to meet a page count or signature size
- Can insert relative to last page e.g. insert after page "last-2"
- N-Up and Step And Repeat
- Mirror alignment on back. N- Up and Step & Repeat let margins and alignment of sheets be mirrored (e.g. top left on front, top right on back)
- Trim and Shift
- Simpler creep. The Creep Assistant (part of Trim & Shift) makes it easier to choose options for shifting to allow pages to line up in a booklet
- Shuffle pages
- Improved performance and reduced file size when shuffle pages makes duplicates
- Shuffle Assistant handles layouts that repeat pages e.g. for Step & Repeat, repeated impositions, work & tumble) (Quite Imposing Plus only)
- Shuffle Assistant now recognises signatures that repeat over more sheets (was limited to 2 or 4 sheet repeats)
- Shuffle Assistant now handles layouts up to 8 x (Quite Imposing Plus only)
- Manual Imposition (Quite Imposing Plus only)
- Undo button
- Can now be used fully in Automation Sequences and in Quite Hot Imposing
- Can choose crop mark size and style
- Key performance improvements
- Improved performance and reduced file size when shuffle pages makes duplicates
- When there are many automation sequences, it will be much faster to view or edit them
- Key features and improvements for automation
- In automation sequences, when changing the name of a sequence, you get the chance to keep the old (duplicate sequence)
- All the new features in Quite Imposing Plus 3.0 will be available in automation sequences and in Quite Hot Imposing.
- Items of particular not e for automation include:
- Commands to move, rotate, delete pages which can form part of an automation sequence (Page Tools)
- Conditionally add pages from file or blank pages to meet a page count (Insert Pages)
- Automatically add text such as file name to pages (Add Text & Numbers)
- Page ranges and page numbers can now be relative to last page by using a notation like "last-3". Useful where the final page count will be unknown, e.g. to insert blank pages before last page.
- In automation sequences and Quite Hot Imposing, Join 2 Pages is now available but only for documents with exactly two pages
- Standards support:
- Support for PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 (ISO 15930-
- 7:2008, 15930-7:2010, 15930-8-2008, 15930-8:2010)