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).
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.
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.
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 pages and files
- 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)
- 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).
- Manual imposition
- 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
- Creep
- Taken from
Trim & shift, because it wasn’t obvious where it was (still available in
Trim & shift).
- Automation sequences
- 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
- Stick on masking tape
- Set a
colour in RGB or CMYK
- Undo
(remove last applied masking tape)
- Adjust page sizes
- 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
- Tile pages
- 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
- Trim and shift
- Advanced
option to keep bleed margins rather than always remove bleed
- Remember last / playback
- Now
provide a simple interface to automation sequences
- Performance enhancements
- Major
speed up for reordering files with many pages including Shuffle Pages, Reverse
Pages, Shuffle Even/Odd.
- Open/close triangles
- 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.
- PDF/X support
- 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.
- Developer/XML creator
- Insert
pages and background definition now supports Path key as alternative to DIPath.
- Please ask
for updated XML specification