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
New
features – full list
Detailed
manual pages follow.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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