QI+3 About Quite Imposing

About Quite Imposing

Imposing (or imposition) is all about combining pages
before you print them. It has been done for hundreds of
years, and virtually every book or leaflet you pick up will
have been imposed.
Despite this, imposition is one of the mysteries of
electronic publishing. Some desktop publishing (DTP)
applications will impose for you, so you can make up the
pages on screen. But this is often a cumbersome process,
and only a few applications give you this choice.
Usually, it is up to the printer (the person, not the machine)
to do imposition, using specialist applications. These
applications are often limited, and can only impose the
results of a specific list of applications.
Quite Imposing aims to be a tool for a wide range of
people. Since it was introduced in 1997 publishers, from
the producer of a small newsletter in fold-over booklet
form, to professional printers, have found it a simple and
flexible solution to their imposition needs.
Quite Imposing is for people who are working with
Adobe’s Acrobat suite, which creates and modifies PDF
files. By itself, Acrobat allows pages to be rearranged, or
documents split or joined, but not much more. But PDF is
a flexible format, suited to imposing.
With Quite Imposing, you can impose any PDF file
(except those using Acrobat’s security options). You’ll
make a new PDF file, which you can see on screen and
make sure it has the correct arrangement, before printing.
This should save many expensive mistakes.