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Top 5 Imposition Software for Macintosh

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How do you get your pages — printed from your desktop or prepared for commercial printing — into the proper printing order? Some page layout programs do this automatically. At other times you need plug-ins, XTensions, or stand-alone programs to impose your pages for printing booklets, newsletters, or books.

1. Quite Imposing

Standard and Plus commercial plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat offers a variety of imposition options plus page numbering, masking, and the ability to add pages from other PDF files. Demos are available.

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2. Bookletizer

Vision's Edge QuarkXPress XTension easily lets you convert reader's spreads into printer's spreads for proper printing of booklets. Also allows the printing of specific spreads. Download a Demo.

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3. Imposer

A Lowly Apprentice Production XTensions and Plug-ins impose QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign documents into 2 up, 4 up, or 8 up flats. It handles the re-ordering during printing rather than changing the actual document. Comes in regular and Pro editions.

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4. InBooklet

From A Lowly Apprentice Production, impose an InDesign document with this plug-in. Several imposition styles plus margin, bleed, trapping, and creep control and crop/registration marks.

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5. INposition

Standard and Lite versions of this QuarkXPress XTension from Dynagram provide a variety of imposition styles for your document.

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