Imposing (or imposition) is all about combining pages before you print them. It has been done for hundreds of years, and virtually every book or leaflet you pick up will have been imposed.
Despite this, imposition is one of the mysteries of electronic publishing. Some desktop publishing (DTP) applications will impose for you, so you can make up the pages on screen. But this is often a cumbersome process, and only a few applications give you this choice.
Usually, it is up to the printer (the person, not the machine) to do imposition, using specialist applications. These applications are often limited, and can only impose the results of a specific list of applications.
Quite Imposing aims to be a tool for a wide range of people. Since it was introduced in 1997 publishers, from the producer of a small newsletter in fold-over booklet form, to professional printers, have found it a simple and flexible solution to their imposition needs.
Quite Imposing is for people who are working with Adobe's Acrobat suite, which creates and modifies PDF files. By itself, Acrobat allows pages to be rearranged, or documents split or joined, but not much more. But PDF is a flexible format, suited to imposing.
With Quite Imposing, you can impose any PDF file (except those using Acrobat's security options). You'll make a new PDF file, which you can see on screen and make sure it has the correct arrangement, before printing. This should save many expensive mistakes.
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) has been the norm in most graphics and publishing applications for some time now, but most imposition hasn't been. With Quite Imposing, the results of your imposition will be a PDF document, which you can view or print to check what you will see before wasting more expensive media.
We know there is more to imposition than just arranging pages. We have a range of tools to do the other functions you need, such as adding page numbers, or adjusting margins.
Almost all of the functions in Quite Imposing work with an existing PDF file which you have opened in Acrobat. Many of the functions will create a new document. These aren't saved automatically, because often you will just print them, or do more processing. You just save the files you need.
Because the results of the imposing functions are PDF documents, you can run a series of functions, and keep the end result. You could add page numbers, crop even and odd pages differently, then create a booklet.
Some parts of Quite Imposing do fairly complicated tasks (like Shuffle Pages For Imposing or n-Up Pages ). Others are simple building blocks (like Reverse Pages ). You will also use standard parts of Acrobat, such as Insert Pages, if you need to merge files before imposing.
Quite Imposing Plus 2.0 allows you to collect tasks together or replay a series of commands used before, using Automation sequences .