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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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| - | ====== We strongly recommend using a Linked PDF workflow when using ImposePlus | + | ===== We strongly recommend using a Linked PDF workflow when using ImposePlus ===== |
| 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 | 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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| ===== Step by Step workflow for using PDF files ===== | ===== Step by Step workflow for using PDF files ===== | ||
| - | - Export your document as a PDF file as if you were going to print it not imposed, | + | - Export your document as a PDF file as if you were going to print it not imposed, |
| - | - I recommend either | + | - We will need to disable editing Capabilities in the PDF file so force Illustrator to open as Linked Pages, |
| - | - Using a PDFX setting like PDF-X1a (for CMYK Flattened files) or PDF-X4 | + | - **Using a PDFX setting like PDF-X1a (for CMYK Flattened files) or PDF-X4** which turns off Illustrator Editing Capabilities by default |
| - | - Turn off " | + | - Save a PDF you normally would but **Turn off " |
| - Close the document | - Close the document | ||
| - | - Open the document in Illustrator , and you will get the PDF import Dialogue below | + | - Open the document in Illustrator, |
| - | - Make sure you tick | + | - **Page Rage: ALL** |
| - | - Page Rage : ALL | + | - **Check Import as Links** |
| - | - Check Import as Links | + | |
| - If the document opens as normal editable Illustrator file, the PDF file still has " | - If the document opens as normal editable Illustrator file, the PDF file still has " | ||
| - Alternative | - 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. | + | - 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 ' | - You document will now be 12 pages for example, with every ' | ||
| - Use ImposePlus as usual, and it will be a lot more reliable | - Use ImposePlus as usual, and it will be a lot more reliable | ||