A full list appears below, but some key
features include
- Customize
control panel: add new panels, add sequences.
- Variable
data: using a CSV or TXT file, add simple text, pictures or text blocks to many
PDF pages.
- Automation sequences can do "partials" to split jobs, or process parts separately. Results can be merged or left separate.
- N-Up can
flow backs from right to left, for easier layout, especially of ad hoc jobs
- Creep can
use scaling instead of shift, so that no content is lost
- Page monitor to show info including live size / bleed sizes for open document
- Manual Imposition – performance greatly improved for some large files
- Trim &
Shift - add or crop all four edges by a fixed amount.
- Conditions
in automation sequences allow more flexibility e.g. different jobs based on
page count, page sizes or metadata (such as filename or keywords).
- Import
sequences or steps from other sequences or XML files. Filter sequences by name.
- Conditions
can issue an error or warning message, and stop a job if there is a problem
such as wrong page size or count
- Enfocus
Switch users remove the prefix from file name references
Detailed manual pages follow.
- Customize
control panel
- Change
the QI+ control panel or create new panels which can be shown separately
(different panels for different jobs)
- Rearrange/remove
the standard control panel buttons
- Add
buttons to run automation sequences
- When a
sequence is edited you can automatically add it
- Add
buttons to open other panels
- Quick
reset of control panel available
- Variable
data – new feature:
using a CSV or TXT file, add text or pictures to many PDF pages.
- Work
with master pages – making copies of a page and adding text or graphics
to each copy; or
- Work
without master pages – add text or graphics to entire file.
- Use a
CSV or TXT (tab delimited) file from Excel or other sources. (Semi-colon
delimited is also available).
- Text
is added with the features of Stick On Text and
Numbers (choose fonts, position, angle, colour
etc.) The CSV file contains only the text to add
- Images
are added from a master file; you put all the images you want to add on
separate pages. Images are added with features of Stick
on PDF Pages (choose position, scale, etc.) The CSV/TXT file
contains page numbers only.
- Add
text blocks, setting information and fixed text over lines, closing gaps
left by blank information etc. for mailing labels and similar production.
- Split
and merge (partials) – new feature.
- Apply
different commands to different parts of the same file. For example, lay
out some sheets as 4 x 2 and some sheets as 2 x 2
- Split
by page number, or into equal size pieces
- If
splitting by page number, this can do the job of a Shuffle Pages command
to prepare the piece, including re-ordering and rotating pages
- New
Import sequence feature will help in setting up the different commands
for each part
- The
results can be combined into one PDF, or left
separate (limit of 9 documents in Acrobat, unlimited in Quite Hot
Imposing).
- N-Up flow can flow backs from right to left, for easier
layout, especially of ad hoc jobs
- By
flowing from right to left on the back, you can ensure that the back is a
mirror image of the front.
- Creep scaling
- Traditionally
Creep has shifted pages to allow for binding; with the scaling option,
the contents are scaled onto a different area, so nothing is lost on
trimming
- Useful
when working with a tightly fitting design
-
Quite
Imposing Plus menu reorganized
- Shorter
menus, because they were too long for some screens and too hard to find
individual items
- Match
the arrangement of the control panel.
- Page
monitor – new feature
- Shows
the page sizes for the current document, including bleed, trim etc.
- Can
optionally show other info
- Can
stay on screen and track whatever document is current
- Can
start automatically when a document is first opened in Acrobat
- Trim
& Shift - add or crop all
four edges by a fixed amount.
- Previously could only add or
crop one side at a time, or set to a fixed size
- Manual imposition
performance hugely improved for large files (high page count)
- As
well as improved performance, in some cases files would grow much larger
from manual imposition, and there are major improvements here too.
- This
improvement affects Manual Imposition Repeat in all cases
- Other
manual impositions of many pages will see improvement in Quite Hot
Imposing, and in Quite Imposing Plus when run in “Advanced Batch Mode”.
- Conditions
– new feature
- Can be
used in automation sequences
- Choose
a different automation sequence according to the status of the current
document
- Can
check page count (e.g. page count less than 10), page size (e.g. no page
sizes larger than …), metadata (e.g. file name does not include SPECIAL)
- Can be used to choose different layouts, especially partials, according to page
count
- Import
sequences – new feature
- Sequence import can be used in Sequence editor, and in setting up new Split/merge (partials) and Conditionals commands.
- Import
from another sequence or from XML.
- Can
import a copy, and then edit the commands
- Can
import as uneditable, and see the sequence or XML used to setup, and use
Refresh to update this copy.
- Can
convert uneditable to editable.
- Message
command – new feature
- Can be used in automation
sequences.
- Especially
useful with conditions, for example can stop with an error if the page
count or page size is not expected.
- Filter
sequences by name
- Designed
to help users with large numbers of automation sequences
- When a
sequence is to be chosen, you can filter so you see only sequences and
categories with a matching name.
- Enfocus
Switch related feature
- Can
automatically strip the special prefix _XXXXX_ from file names