Compatibility
This beta is compatible with
- Mac OS 10.7 and above
- Windows 7 and above
- Acrobat 9 and above
including Acrobat DC
You can install and run both Quite Imposing
Plus 3 and Quite Imposing Plus 4 for the same copy of Acrobat (except in
Acrobat DC where Quite Imposing Plus 3 is not supported).
Preferences and sequences
The
first time you run QI+4 it will read all your preferences and write copies for
use in version 4. After that, changes made in version 3 will not affect version
4.
What’s new?
A full list appears below, but some key
features include
- Stick on Text and
Numbers now allows your choice of embedded fonts, colours and rotation, plus Undo.
- New Stick On PDF Pages function to stick
on PDF pages (graphics, adverts, stamps, marks etc.)
- Insert pages or blanks at intervals, for example to add fixed backs. Can be used to merge
files.
- Manual imposition can repeat a layout to a large number of pages,
and can automatically position pages as fronts/backs. Also smart crop marks which will not overlap.
- Adjust page sizes by a percentage rather than to a fixed size; or set
all pages the same size without knowing size in advance.
- Sequences Manager to allow effective use of large numbers of automation
sequences, including renaming, moving, duplicating. Sequences can be collected together with all files used, to reorganise
or move to a new system.
- Work faster: Shift+click in Control panel to repeat last command
without prompting.
- Trim & shift/creep
now have the advanced option to keep bleed margins.
New features – full list
Detailed
manual pages follow.
- Stick on PDF pages – new function
- Add one, some or all
pages from another PDF on top of current
- Scale by percentage or
to fit space, with or without preserving aspect ratio
- Free rotate
- Preview outline shows
where page will be placed
- Choose from recently
used files
- Undo and peel off
available
- Quick file info for
page count and sizes
- Stick on text and numbers
- Use most fonts
(European Latin1 only), embed
- Preview box shows where
text will be added to current page
- Rotate text by
0/90/180/270
- Set a colour in RGB or
CMYK
- Undo available, dialog
stays on screen so you can undo if needed
- Redesigned dialog so
you can open/close the options you need
- Insert blank pages
repeatedly (insert at intervals).
- Insert file repeatedly, or insert file at intervals. Can be used
to merge files, add standard backs, etc.
- Choose from recently
used files
- Quick file info for
page count and sizes
- Undo available (from
Control Panel)
- New streamlined look
- Undo option for
selected commands including all “stick on” commands
- Shift+click to quickly repeat
command with the last options used
- “Peel off” button
replaces the three separate buttons before, and
also adds support for removing the result of Stick
On PDF Pages. (Also replaces the separate selections
in the menu).
- Continue to more sheets
(layout one or more sheets, repeat layout to use up entire input and make
as many new sheets as needed)
- Smart
crop marks, automatically
adjusted if they overlap pages
- Double sided option,
automatically mirror position on back of sheet to place front,back,front,back...
- Shift+click on Pick Source to
quickly pick the current page
- Shift+click on Choose target to
quickly use the same options as last time for target (new or existing
document)
- Redesigned dialog so
you can open/close the options you need
- Taken from Trim &
shift, because it wasn’t obvious where it was (still available in Trim
& shift).
- Remember last and play
back now can use automation sequences with a streamlined interface
- New Sequence Manager
with many productivity gains:
- Rename or duplicate
sequences
- Use drag and drop to
create and arrange sequences
- Move or copy sequences
to other categories
- Generate reports on
sequences for ease of reference
- Rename, delete or
duplicate whole categories
- Manage files used in
sequences (e.g backgrounds)
- View or save report on
files used
- Change or locate
missing files and directories
- Collect files together
for moving to another system, or to clean up
- Manage files used in
backgrounds too
- Backup and restore
sequences
- Restore from collect,
to set up new system
- Automatic backups at
intervals to go back before changes
- Backup and restore
background and page size definitions too
- Set a colour in RGB or
CMYK
- Undo (remove last
applied masking tape)
- Quickly scale pages by
a percentage, rather than a target page size
- Get page size report on
current document
- Set pages all the same
size without knowing size in advance (Advanced option)
- Verify all pages are
the same size
- Resize only pages that
are already close to the target size
- Option to choose the
widths and heights of each tile (all the same or all different) instead
of the number of rows and columns. Any overlap is shared over the tiles.
- Page
tools
- Rotate pages by any angle,
not just 90/180/270 degrees
- Use very small angles for
micro-adjustment for alignment issues – you can leave page size unchanged in
this case
- Shuffle pages for imposition
- Use
.. (two dots) in a rule for a range e.g. 1..100
200..101
- Significant speed up in
many cases for large numbers of pages
- Much larger shuffle
rules can be used (allowing automatic generation)
- Window can be resized
to make it easier to work with larger rules
- Advanced option to keep
bleed margins rather than always remove bleed
- Now provide a simple
interface to automation sequences
- Major speed up for reordering files with many pages including Shuffle Pages, Reverse Pages, Shuffle Even/Odd.
- Some dialogs have been
redesigned with triangles to click to open/close groups of options
- Hold down shift to
open/close all groups at once.
- Previously the
“preserve PDF/X” option stopped adding text to PDF/X files because fonts
were not embedded. Now you can add text, provided you choose an embedded
font.
- Insert pages and
background definition now supports Path key as alternative to DIPath.
- Please ask for updated
XML specification