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- | ====== Imposition Plus for Adobe Illustrator | + | ===== Imposition Plus for Adobe Illustrator ===== |
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. | 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. | ||
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* LIVE PREVIEW: See the imposition layout in a live preview window. | * LIVE PREVIEW: See the imposition layout in a live preview window. | ||
* Save your settings as presets for quick retrieval of your layout | * Save your settings as presets for quick retrieval of your layout | ||
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+ | ===== We strongly recommend using a Linked PDF workflow when using ImposePlus ===== | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | The advantages are | ||
+ | * **Processing is faster** as its quicker to copy/ | ||
+ | * **Eliminates errors** as each page is linked to a PDF file and cannot be altered in any way (When copying/ | ||
+ | * **Small Imposed Illustrator Files** - Turn off " | ||
+ | * **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**, | ||
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+ | ===== Step by Step workflow for using PDF files ===== | ||
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+ | - Export your document as a PDF file as if you were going to print it not imposed, include Bleed etc. | ||
+ | - I recommend either | ||
+ | - Using a PDFX setting like PDF-X1a (for CMYK Flattened files) or PDF-X4 | ||
+ | - Turn off " | ||
+ | - Close the document | ||
+ | - Open the document in Illustrator, | ||
+ | - **Page Rage: ALL** | ||
+ | - **Check Import as Links** | ||
+ | - If the document opens as normal editable Illustrator file, the PDF file still has " | ||
+ | - Alternative | ||
+ | - 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 ' | ||
+ | - Use ImposePlus as usual, and it will be a lot more reliable | ||
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===== Interface ===== | ===== Interface ===== | ||
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===== Releases ===== | ===== Releases ===== | ||
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+ | * ** Version 2.8.0 ** | ||
+ | * Added Duplicate Back option, to copy the front page to the back page. | ||
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* ** Version 2.7.0 ** | * ** Version 2.7.0 ** |