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Subject:Re: Looking for PostScript Imposition Program From:Laurence Burrows <burrows -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:53:20 +1100
Kandis Weiner wrote:
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We currently work in FrameMaker and save as PostScript, sending the PS
files outside to be printed and composed into saddle stitch books.
You know the deal with saddle stitch - it is one long sheet of paper
with 4 pages of the document. The file has to be composed (I think this
is the term that is used) so that page 1 and page 8 are on one side of
the sheet, and page 2 and page 7 are on the other. Then, when you staple
the 2 sheets, containing 8 pages of the document, it will fold in the
middle and work like a nice pretty book, going in order from 1 to 2,
front to back.
I'm looking for a software that will do that for us so that we can print
these documents in house. I imagine that printers use a similar
software, but we surely don't need the same extended capabilities as a
high-turnover printing house.
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Aandi Inston's QuiteImposing sounds the business for what you want. Travel
to http://www.quite.com and browse.
QuiteImposing is an Acrobat Exchange plug-in which creates imposed pdf
files that you can then print from Acrobat Exchange.
I use it successfully with FrameMaker documents. Usual disclaimers.
