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Jak...@aol.com

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Jul 8, 2004, 8:12:47 PM7/8/04
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can anyone recommend a good imposition software for a newspaper workflow. I have heard that Quite Imposing is good and it works as a plugin for acrobat. anyone have experience with it? anyone have experience with or thoughts on Preps?

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Leonard Rosenthol

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At 07:59 PM 7/8/2004, Jak...@aol.com wrote:
>can anyone recommend a good imposition software for a newspaper workflow.

What type of imposition(s) are you doing? n-up? Step &
repeat? Work & Turn? Other??

On what OS platform?

Are you looking for a manual or automated solution?


>I have heard that Quite Imposing is good and it works as a plugin for acrobat.

Correct on both counts - it is certainly one option...


>anyone have experience with or thoughts on Preps?

Preps is the "big boy" of imposition systems - if you want every
possible option for imposition on the Windows platform, it is certainly the
way to go. However, performance isn't good and it has problems with some
types of PDFs. It also has a pretty ugly UI for creating your "spreads".


Leonard

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Peter Kleinheider

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Jul 9, 2004, 1:32:56 AM7/9/04
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In additon to Quite Imposing I wanted to say, that Quite is working on
new applications for automatic imposing. They showed a preview at Drupa
that looked very good. They now can work w/o Acrobat and it can be
completely automated.

A Software I also like is Ultimate's Impostrip. They also impose native
PDF. www.imposition.com

Peter Kleinheider

Jak...@aol.com

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Jul 9, 2004, 1:13:22 PM7/9/04
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hello,
I will give you a brief overview of our situation. we are a newspaper who only paginates 20% of our workload, the rest is paste-up, (I know, pathetic). we use Mac OS9 and pagemaker but we are switching to OS10 and Indesign when we go full pagination shortly. We need imposition software that is going to be simple for our still learning staff but sophisticated enough to handle roughly four-60 page papers weekly. we will be using mostly 2-up and 4-up imposition. as far as manual or automated, i guess that doesn't really matter considering it is not a huge amount of pages being sent to the plant, though automated would be good. It is a pdf workflow. Dynastrip? Preps? Quite? Open to suggestions.
Thank you in advance and sorry for long message.

Leonard Rosenthol

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At 12:56 PM 7/9/2004, Jak...@aol.com wrote:
>I will give you a brief overview of our situation. we are a newspaper who
>only paginates 20% of our workload, the rest is paste-up, (I know,
>pathetic). we use Mac OS9 and pagemaker but we are switching to OS10 and
>Indesign when we go full pagination shortly. We need imposition software
>that is going to be simple for our still learning staff but sophisticated
>enough to handle roughly four-60 page papers weekly. we will be using
>mostly 2-up and 4-up imposition.

For OS 9, you'll probably want to use Quite Imposing. More than
enough to handle the job.

For OS X, you can either go with Quite Imposing or something like
PDF Enhancer. Dynastrip and Preps are much too overkill for your needs (IMO).


Leonard

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Tim Gross

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Jul 9, 2004, 7:49:01 PM7/9/04
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If I'm not mistaken Indesign has a imposition setting like page makers.
Look for Make booklet in the plugins under utilities.

Lindsey Thomas Martin

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On 9 Jul 2004, at 4.36 pm, Tim Gross wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken Indesign has a imposition setting like page
> makers. Look for Make booklet in the plugins under utilities.

If you buy InDesign PageMaker Edition or add the PageMaker Plug-in
Pack, you receive the plug-in, InBooklet Special Edition. I am not sure
of the limitations of InBooklet SE but you might want to look at
InBooklet

<http://www.alap.com/products/inbooklet.html>

and InPoser Pro

<http://www.alap.com/products/imposerpro.html>

from ALAP. These products paginate in the print stream (and, thus, to
PDF) or to a new InDesign file.

LTM

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