Set language

The Set language button can be used to switch to other languages, if available. Important note: Technical support can only be provided in the language which you originally purchased. Quite cannot support switching to a language, unless the product was purchased from a reseller specialising in that language. You are also likely to find that you do not have the documentation in that language.

New custom sizes and backgrounds

(Basic preferences) From this screen you can define new custom page sizes or backgrounds (see Using backgrounds ). These can also be set from other screens which list page sizes, by selecting More Choices from the list.

From this screen you can also remove sizes and backgrounds no longer needed, to keep the list a manageable size.

Remember imposition info on standard functions

(Basic preferences) This option allows you to record extra information when you use standard Acrobat functions to manipulate pages in a PDF file. These functions include

• Document > Insert Pages (in Acrobat 6.0, Document > Pages > Insert , similar changes to those below)
• Document > Replace Pages
• Document > Delete pages
• Document > Extract pages
• Rearranging pages within or between documents by using drag-and-drop on the numbers beneath thumbnails (Pages palette in Acrobat 6.0 onwards).

The effect of the information recorded is to allow Imposition Info to more accurately report the origin of pages. Consider the example of a 3-page PDF file a.pdf, into which a 1-page PDF file b.pdf is inserted after page 2. Then the updated a.pdf is imposed and Imposition Info is consulted. With the Remember imposition info option switched off, the sheet will show a.pdf pages 1,2,3,4. With the option switched on, the sheet will show a.pdf pages 1 and 2, b.pdf page 1, a.pdf page 3.

The main reasons to switch this option off are:

• To avoid the slight increase in file size that results from adding extra information.
• To avoid the slight delay caused on the above functions.
• When manipulating a series of files before composing a file document and you want the final document's name shown in Imposition Info.

About per-imposition preferences

Several preferences directly affect how an imposition is made. It might be that you normally want one preference, but know that for a particular job you need a different preference.

For example you might know that one particular job requires form fields to be imposed, but the rest of the time, your other jobs do not. This is especially important if you are using Automation sequences , where there may be no chance to change preferences.

To overcome this, the major imposition functions allow you to Override common preferences . For each preference you can choose to use the current default, or set a particular value. All the values you choose are the same as those in Imposition Preferences.

This setting is available in

• Create booklet under Advanced options in the first screen.
• n-Up Pages and Step And Repeat on the second screen.
• Manual Imposition , near the bottom of the screen.

Registration mark colour

(Imposition preferences) When Quite Imposing adds registration marks, they will always appear black on screen. However, the marks can be made in any of three ways. You will not see any difference when printing unless you are making colour separations. If making separations, you may want to choose one of the options:

• Black marks only on the black plate. This is useful if the pages are actually black and white only; some separation systems may produce unnecessary plates otherwise.
• CMYK marks each of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black plates.
• All separations marks all separations in a level 2 PostScript device; in other contexts, same as CMYK.

PDF/X handling

(Imposition preferences) Quite Imposing Plus 2.0 can preserve PDF/X files when doing an imposition. (If you don't know what PDF/X is, this is unlikely to be important, and you should leave the option set to Ignore PDF/X .)

The idea of this is that in a PDF/X workflow, where PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 files are imposed, the result should remain a PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 file.

If you turn this option on, Quite Imposing will inspect each file that you process, to see if it is PDF/X. If so, then the resulting file will also be PDF/X.

Note that Acrobat will save PDF files as the latest PDF version, which may invalidate PDF/X at the final stage. We cannot prevent this from happening, unfortunately, but other PDF/X software may be able to overcome this limitation.

Selecting this option may disable certain actions. For example, you cannot use Stick On Text and Numbers for a PDF/X file when Preserve PDF/X is selected, because PDF/X requires embedded fonts and we do not support embedding fonts for numbering. Another limitation that may be seen is that you could not use a non-PDF/X file as the background for imposing a PDF/X file.

Because of these limitations, Preserve PDF/X is not the default.

Quite publish a detailed document about the technical details of PDF/X handling. This is available on our web site, or upon request.

Form fields and annotations

(Imposition preferences) Form fields are created with the forms tools in Acrobat, and can be used for various purposes, from type-in forms, to adding buttons and hiding things like the masking tape function. Annotations, also called comments, are also used for a variety of purposes, from adding text, to putting comments for reviewers.

Quite Imposing 1.x would ignore these, which could sometimes produce unexpected results, especially if text had been added or items hidden.

In Quite Imposing 2.0 you have the option to include these items when you make an imposition. This may be necessary, but you should beware of form fields or annotations which you would not want to appear in a final printed page.

In some cases, form fields can be set up as "do not print". If this has been done, Quite Imposing will always delete them from an imposition.

Bleed handling

(Imposition preferences) See About bleeds .