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 +====== Impose Plus ======
  
-===== Imposition Plus for Adobe Illustrator =====+Impose your artwork, artboards or a multi-page PDF onto print sheets: gang-ups, collate-cut stacks, saddle-stitched booklets, double-sided work, head to head, with crop marks, labels and numbering. A live preview shows the layout as you set it.
  
-Imposition Plus works by taking your current document and converting your selected artwork or Artboards into multi-page impositions including gang-up and duplex options. +[[https://o2creative.co.nz/shop/Impose_plus_advanced_imposition_for_Adobe_Illustrator|See it in the shop]] · Version 2.10.0 · Needs PowerScripts 3.8.42 or later
  
-Features +===== Where to find it =====
-  * Multi-page Imposition +
-  * Select from common sheet sizes or enter a custom sheet size in Landscape or Portrait +
-  * Specify unprintable border for the sheet +
-  * Select current Artboards or Selection as your source artwork +
-  * Manually specify the final trim size or use the size of the source artwork +
-  * Specify the bleed to be used +
-  * Set horizontal and vertical cutters +
-  * 3 different layout modes +
-    * Gangup - Repeat +
-    * Gangup - Unique +
-    * Gangup- Unique Collate Cut +
-    * Booklet for Saddle Stitched books (NEW) +
-  * Alternate rows for 'Head to Head' or 'Foot to Foot' imposition +
-  * 3 Different duplex modes +
-    * None +
-    * Left / Right +
-    * Top / Bottom +
-  * 4 Different ordering modes +
-    * Left to right then top to bottom +
-    * Right to left then top to bottom +
-    * Tom to bottom, then left to right +
-    * Top to bottom, then right to left +
-  * Manually set the number of rows and columns or automatically fill in the sheet +
-  * Add Crop Marks +
-  * Add Sheet Labels +
-  * LIVE PREVIEW: See the imposition layout in a live preview window. +
-  * Save your settings as presets for quick retrieval of your layout+
  
 +Open the PowerScripts panel (**Window > Extensions > PowerScripts**) and choose **Impose Plus** from the **Tools** scripts. The script has three tabs: **Imposition**, **Options** and **Sheet Sizes**.
  
-===== We strongly recommend using a Linked PDF workflow when using ImposePlus =====+===== Quick start =====
  
-Imposing live native editable artwork can result in a number of issues, you can make ImposePlus a lot more reliable by imposing linked files and not native art+To put 8 business cards on an SRA3 sheet:
  
-The advantages are +  - Under **Sheet Size**, choose your sheet from **Standard Sizes** (or type the width and height). 
-  * **Processing is faster** as its quicker to copy/duplicate a single linked PDF page than copy complicated artwork +  - Under **Source**, choose **Artboards** (one card per artboard) and press **Update Size from Source**. Set the **Bleed**. 
-  * **Eliminates errors** as each page is linked to a PDF file and cannot be altered in any way (When copying/rotating artwork, Clipping masks, gradients, strokes, and other effects can be altered when imposing native artwork or mess up the sizing or dozens of unforeseen issues, such as leaving a layer or single shape locked, or having hidden guides or shapes on your artboards)  +  - Under **Layout**, choose **Gangup - Repeat** and tick **Fill Sheet**. 
-  * **Small Imposed Illustrator Files** - Turn off "Create PDF compatible File" when saving the imposed AI file, and you will have a very small AI file that you can edit later on +  - Check the preview, then press **Create Imposition**.
-  * **Smaller PDF files** (Since pages are duplicated, the PDF created is more efficiently created) +
-  * **Work with other programmes** (Use PDF files created from InDesign, CorelDraw, Word or any other program) without the need to edit it or deal with font issues +
-  * **Easily update an Imposition**, Just edit the original file, re-export to the PDF, and re-open the saved Imposed AI file, Illustrator will update the links and your imposition now has the most recent changes - with the need to reimpose.+
  
 +===== Options =====
  
-===== Step by Step workflow for using PDF files =====+==== Imposition ====
  
-  - Export your document as a PDF file as if you were going to print it not imposed, **Make sure to set your bleed** +{{:imposepro:imposition_tab.png?320|The Imposition tab}}
-  - We will need to disable editing Capabilities in the PDF file so force Illustrator to open as Linked Pages, I recommend either +
-    - **Using a PDFX setting like PDF-X1a (for CMYK Flattened files) or PDF-X4** which turns off Illustrator Editing Capabilities by default +
-    - Save a PDF you normally would but **Turn off "Perverse Illustrator Editing Capabilities"** +
-  - Close the document +
-  - Open the document in Illustrator, and you will get the PDF import Dialogue below, Make sure you choose: +
-    - **Page Rage: ALL** +
-    - **Check Import as Links**  +
-  - If the document opens as normal editable Illustrator file, the PDF file still has "Perverse Illustrator Editing Capabilities" enabled, you will need to re-export or +
-    - Alternative  Option 1 : Use the Power Scripts Multi-page PDF importer script to import a PDF file as linked pages. +
-    - Alternative Option 2:  Open the file in Acrobat, and Optimise the file, disable all optimisations except to removing all Meta data and save the optimised file - this will delete out the Editable AI part of the PDF file. Repeat step 4 +
-  - You document will now be 12 pages for example, with every 'page' an individual linked PDF page (and not editable) +
-  - Use ImposePlus as usual, and it will be a lot more reliable+
  
-{{::pdf_impose_impot_as_lined.png|}}+=== Sheet Size ===
  
 +  * **Standard Sizes**: pick a sheet (edit the list on the **Sheet Sizes** tab), or type the **Sheet Width** and **Sheet Height**.
 +  * **Border**: the edge of the sheet the printer can't print on. **Fill Sheet** keeps inside it.
 +  * **Landscape**: turn the sheet sideways.
  
 +=== Source ===
  
-===== Interface =====+  * **Source**: what to impose: 
 +    * **Selected Artwork**: the selected artwork, as one page. 
 +    * **Artboards**: each artboard is a page. All artboards should be the same size. 
 +    * **PDF File**: pages of a PDF, from **First page** to **Last page**, cropped to the **PDF Crop** box. Choosing a PDF fills in its pages, size and bleed for you. No document needs to be open. 
 +  * **Update Size from Source**: read the page size from the source. 
 +  * **Source Width**, **Source Height**: the finished size of each page. 
 +  * **Bleed**: the bleed each page has. Tick **Size above includes bleed** if the width and height include it.
  
-{{::imposeplus-full.png|}}+=== Gutter ===
  
-==== Sheet Size ==== +  * **Horz Gutter**, **Vert Gutter**: the gap between pages (between their trim marks).
-This is where you define the size of the printed working sheet +
  
-  * **Standard Sizes** - Select standard paper sizes from the dropdown +=== Layout ===
-  * **Sheet Width**  +
-  * **Sheet Height**  +
-  * **Border** This is a safe area which not to be printed on - used for Automatic layout 'Fit to Page' option +
-  * **Landscape**+
  
-==== Source ==== +  * **Destination**: impose into a **New Document**, or straight into the **Current Document** (faster). **Remove old artboards** clears the old artboards from the current document. 
-This is where you select the source artwork to be imposed.+  * **Layout**: 
 +    * **Gangup - Repeat**: the sheet full of copies of the same page (one sheet per page). 
 +    * **Gangup - Unique**: different pages across the sheet, in the **Order** you choose. 
 +    * **Gangup - Collate Cut**: different pages placed so that after guillotining, each stack is in page order. 
 +    * **Booklet**: a saddle-stitched booklet, pages in the right order and back to back. A page count that isn't a multiple of 4 gets blank pages at the end. 
 +  * **Total Creep** and **Creep Out**: for booklets, how much the inner pages creep in total (for example 1.5 mm for a thick book), shared out over the sheets. 
 +  * **Method**: **Standard**, **Head to Head** (every other row turned 180°) or **Foot to Foot**. 
 +  * **Order**: the order of unique pages: left to right then top to bottom, and so on. 
 +  * **Duplex**: double-sided work: **None**, **Left / Right** or **Top / Bottom** (how the sheet turns over). 
 +  * **Duplex Back**: the backs are the next pages (**Unique Pages**), or the same as the front (**Duplicate Front Page**). 
 +  * **Fill Sheet**: fit as many as will go. Untick to set **Horz Copies** and **Vert Copies** yourself. A warning shows if they don't fit.
  
-  * **Source** +=== Marks ===
-    * **Selection** Use the currently selected artwork as the source +
-    * **Artboards** Use the artboards of the current document as a source, **Note - All artboards should be the same size** +
-    * **PDF** Use a Multi-Page PDF file as the source - **Initial Implementation** +
-  * **Update Size from Source** - Updates the source height and width from the current source  +
-  * **Width** +
-  * **Height** +
-  * **Bleed** The bleed required to be added to the output, If the source Width and Height includes bleed make sure you tick **size above includes bleed**+
  
-==== Gutter ==== +  * **Add Crop marks**, with **Mark Length** and **Mark Offset**.
-Here you define the gutter (gap) between trim marks+
  
-==== Layout ====+=== Label ===
  
-  * **Layout** +  * **Add Label**: a line of text on each sheet, at the **Position** you pick, **Horizontal** or **Vertical**, with your own **Text**, the **Job Name** and the **Date and Time** (or the PDF's name when imposing a PDF).
-    * **Single** One layout per sheet +
-    * **Gangup - Repeat** Fill the sheet with multiple copies of the same artwork  +
-    * **Gangup - Unique** Fill the sheet with unique copies of the artwork, Use **Order** to set the way the copies are laid out on the sheet +
-    * **Gangup - Collate Cut** Fill the sheets with unique copies so that when cut on a guillotine the individual cut stacks are in order. +
-    * **Booklet** Layout based on a saddle stitched booklet +
-  * **Total Creep** Set the creep for the booklet, this is the TOTAL amount of creep for the entire booklet, For example, if a 20page book creeps 6mm, then each of internal spreads will be adjusted 1.5mm. +
-  * **Method** For standard impositions  +
-    * **Standard** No rotations +
-    * **Head to Head** Each even row will be rotated 180 degrees +
-    * **Foot to Foot** Each odd row will be rotated 180 degrees +
-  * **Order** Set the order for unique layouts  +
-  * **Duplex** Set the duplex option for double sided printing +
-    * **None** Impose as single-sided prints +
-    * **Left / Right** Double sided duplex left to right  +
-    * **Top / Bottom** Double sided duplex top to bottom+
  
-==== Marks ==== +=== Numbering ===
-  * **Add Crop Marks** Check to add crop marks to the layout +
-    * **Mark Length** Length of the crop marks +
-    * **Mark Offset** Distance+
  
-==== Label ==== +For numbered tickets, vouchers and so on. Put a placeholder (''{#}'' by default) in a text in your artwork, and each copy gets its own number:
-  * **Add Label** Check to add label to the spreads +
-  * **Position** +
-  * **Text** Optional Additional text  +
-  * **Orientation** +
-  * **Job Name** Include job name in the label +
-  * **Date and Time** Include the date and time in the label+
  
-==== Numbering ==== +  * **Placeholder**: the text to replace. 
-  * **Not Implimented**+  * **Start Value** and **Step**: the first number and how much it goes up. 
 +  * **Min Digits**: leading zeros, for example 3 gives 001. 
 +  * **Sheets**: with **Gangup - Repeat**, how many sheets to make, the numbers carrying on from sheet to sheet.
  
-==== Preview ==== +Numbers follow the layout order, so collate-cut stacks come out in sequence.
-This is a live preview of the layout+
  
-===== Releases =====+=== Preview ===
  
-  * **Version 2.8.0** +The live preview shows the first sheet (front and back) as you change the settings.
-    * Added Duplicate Back option, to copy the front page to the back page.+
  
 +  * **Create Imposition**: does it.
  
-  * **Version 2.7.0** +==== Options ====
-    * Fixed lots of bugs in various imposition layouts, all imposition settings and combinations should now work as expected +
-    * Updated the method of copy and pasting selected artwork to the new document to be more reliable and faster  +
-    * Fixed bug with ungrouped items +
-    * Added Collate Cut Imposition +
-    * Removed Single Imposition as it was not useful (only used for testing) +
-    * Added Initial support for PDF importing +
-    * Added 2 Column Layout if you expand the panel wide enough +
-    * Removed from Beta+
  
-  * **Version 2.5.1** +{{:imposepro:options_tab.png?380|The Options tab}}
-    * Fixed Blank pages would fail on multipage impositions+
  
-  * **Version 2.5.0** +  * **Crop Stroke**: the crop marks' line width. 
-    * Added Booklet Imposition +  * **Convert duplicate shapes into symbols**: copies of the same page become symbols, so the file stays small and fast.
-    * Fixed Alignment big where items larger than the bleed would misalign the items+
  
 +==== Sheet Sizes ====
  
 +{{:imposepro:sheet_sizes_tab.png?380|The Sheet Sizes tab}}
  
 +The list of sheets for **Standard Sizes**: add your press sheets and media sizes.
 +
 +===== How to... =====
 +
 +==== A 16-page booklet from a PDF ====
 +
 +  - **Source**: **PDF File**, choose the PDF (pages, size and bleed fill in).
 +  - **Layout**: **Booklet**, **Duplex**: **Left / Right**. Set **Total Creep** if the paper is thick.
 +  - Choose a sheet that fits two pages side by side, and press **Create Imposition**.
 +
 +==== Numbered raffle tickets ====
 +
 +  - Put ''{#}'' in the ticket's number text.
 +  - **Layout**: **Gangup - Repeat**, **Fill Sheet**.
 +  - **Numbering**: **Start Value** 1, **Min Digits** 4, **Sheets** 25.
 +  - Press **Create Imposition**: 25 sheets, every ticket numbered.
 +
 +===== Tips =====
 +
 +  * Impose from a PDF (or linked PDF pages) for the most reliable results: pages can't be changed by accident, copying is faster and files are smaller. To bring a PDF in as linked pages first, use [[multipage_pdf_import|PDF MultiPage Import]].
 +  * Save your common layouts as presets (see [[using_presets|Using Presets]]), for example "SRA3 business cards 10 up".
 +  * For simple step and repeat with cut lines, see [[impose|Step and Repeat]].
 +
 +===== Good to know =====
 +
 +  * New documents use 300 ppi raster effects (for shadows, blurs and rasterizing), the right setting for print.
 +  * Asking for a last page past the end of the PDF gives a clear message instead of imposing the wrong page.
 +
 +===== What's new =====
 +
 +  * **2.10.0**
 +    * Improved: new documents use 300 ppi raster effects (shadows, blurs, rasterizing), the print setting.
 +    * New: Destination: impose into a new document, or straight into the current one (faster), with Remove old artboards.
 +    * Fixed: numbering now works, in layout order, with a new Sheets option for numbered Gang-up Repeat sheets.
 +    * Improved: choosing a PDF fills in its pages, size and bleed straight away.
 +    * Fixed: booklets with Top / Bottom duplex, Head to Head or Foot to Foot now have every page in the right place.
 +    * Improved: a warning when the copies do not fit on the sheet, and general bug fixes and reliability. Needs PowerScripts 3.8.42 or later.
 +  * **2.9.0**: Much more reliable PDF imposing, fast and correct PDF page counts, booklets that aren't a multiple of 4, Total Creep fixed, PDFs over 100 pages, and no document needed to impose a PDF.
 +  * **2.8.4**: Buy in PowerScripts now opens this script's page in the shop.
 +  * Older changes: [[releasenotes|PowerScripts Release Notes]]
  
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