Showing commands

When you run any command in Quite Imposing, information on all the commands and options used are stored in the file. You can view these by selecting Show commands . Initially only the commands are shown, but you can expand to show the options too.

As well as showing what you have done, these commands can be used to automate future tasks just the same, using Automation sequences .

You can also use Export as XML to write an XML file containing all commands and options from the current document, which can be imported later on the same or a different computer.

You will only see commands if Quite Imposing 2.0 was used to prepare the file. Old files prepared by Quite Imposing 1.x will not show this information.

Showing layout information

As you impose pages, Quite Imposing tries to keep track of where they came from, and the original page number. Functions such as Shuffle Pages For Imposing or Reverse Pages won't confuse it. When you select Show layout , Quite Imposing will show you this information.

The information given on original document is as accurate as possible. For the most accuracy make sure the Remember Imposition Info on Standard Functions option is selected in Imposition Preferences .

For each page containing an imposition, you will see a scrollable list of the pages which were imposed. For more details you can click on the list, or on the page itself. The page will be highlighted, and information such as creation date and the date and time of imposition will be displayed.

The Image Info window floats over the Acrobat window, but does not interfere with the menus or toolbar. You can therefore open new files, change windows, or change pages to get more information.

When you use backgrounds, this will sometimes be shown as imposed pages. Quite Imposing uses the most efficient way it can to add backgrounds, and sometimes this is best done as an imposed page.

Modifying an Imposed Page

This applies to Show layout only. Once you have selected a page, two buttons become available, Extract , and Delete .

• Delete will remove the page from the imposition. There is no "undo" for this feature, so take care. Note that in the current release, removing a page does not remove its registration marks.
• You can click Extract to extract a copy of the page into a new document. You can use this if you need the original back but have lost it. After clicking Extract you will be able to choose to extract only the selected page, or each page imposed on the current sheet. You can also choose to extract to a new document, or to add pages to the end of any existing open document.

Warning: documents made up of extracted pages are often much larger than the original document, sometimes many times larger. Extraction should be viewed as a tool of last resort, where the original is otherwise lost, not a routine part of your work-flow.

Notes on Image Info (Show layout)

1.      Quite Imposing puts special, invisible, markers into the PDF page, so that Imposition Info can find them and report information. Some products can edit PDF pages, and may remove or damage these hidden markers. However, Acrobat's "Touch up" tools are now generally safe.

2.      Image Info is a tool, like the other tools on the toolbar (though it has no button of its own). That means that when you click on a different tool, the Image Info tool is switched off. When this happens the information disappears, but a button appears which can be clicked to start the tool again. Alternatively, you can choose to have the Info window close down when you select a different tool.