Quark Print Collection User Guide
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 IV | Quark Item Marks What It Is 1 What It Adds to QuarkXPress 1 How it works 1 The Crops Pane 2 The Trim Area 2 The Bleed Area 3 The Safety Area 3 Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows check boxes 3 Using the Crops Pane 4 Example 1 4 Example 2 4 Example 3 5 Example 4 5 Example 5 6 The Marks Pane 6 The Press Marks area 7 The Plate Tags area 7 The Mark Specifications area 8 Using the Marks Pane 8 Example 1 8 Example 2 9 Example 3 9 The Placement Pa
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Quark MarkIt What It Is 11 What Quark MarkIt adds to QuarkXPress 11 How it works 12 The MarkIt Styles Dialog Box 12 The Edit MarkIt Style Dialog Box 13 The Name field 13 The Registration area field 14 The Page bleed field 14 The Horizontal Trim and Vertical Trim fields 14 Preview controls: proxy, zoom field, page drop-down menu 14 The position marks relative to trim check box 14 The Press Marks bar 15 Page preview 16 The Import button 17 The X, Y Fields 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 VI | Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress Overview 23 Setting Up Printer Flats 26 Step 1: Specifying a Sheet Type 26 Step 2: Specifying an Imposition Type 27 Step 3: Specifying a Binding Type 28 Step 4: Flipping and Moving Pages 29 Step 5: Specifying Bleed 29 Step 6: Specifying Creep 29 How Creep Works 30 Step 7: Specifying Crossover 30 Step 8: Specifying Margins 30 Step 9: Specifying Gaps 31 Step 10: Specifying Registration Marks 32 Step 11: Printing with Quark Im
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 4 Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress CONTINUED Sample Imposition Scenarios 40 Saddle-Stitch Scenario 40 Perfect-Bound Scenario 41 Stacked Scenario 41 Work & Turn Scenario 42 Work & Tumble Scenario 42 Split Web Scenario 42 Quark Imposer for Acrobat Setting Up Printer Flats 46 Step 1: Specifying a Sheet Type 46 Step 2: Specifying an Imposition Type 46 Step 3: Specifying a Binding Type 48 Step 4: Flipping and Moving Pages 49 Step 5: Specifying Bleed 49 Step 6: Spec
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 VIII | Quark Imposer for Acrobat CONTINUED Creating and Choosing Styles 55 Standard Style 56 Creating a Style 56 Choosing a Style 56 Updating a Style 56 Editing the Style List 57 Sharing Styles with Other Users 57 Handling PDFs with Bleed Included 57 Sample Imposition Scenarios 58 Saddle-Stitch Scenario 58 Perfect-Bound Scenario 58 Stacked Scenario 59 Work & Turn Scenario 59 Work & Tumble Scenario 59 Split Web Scenario 60
WHAT IT IS Chapter 1: Quark Item Marks WHAT IT IS Quark® Item Marks provides convenient methods for making crop marks and registration marks for individual items and pages. WHAT IT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS Quark Item Marks, XTensions® software, adds to QuarkXPress® the Item Marks dialog box (Item Þ Item Marks). The Item Marks dialog box contains three panes of controls: • Controls in the Crops pane determine the placement of the crop, bleed, margin marks, guides, and dimension arrows.
WHAT IT IS are ready for production. You can also place marks on a separate layer so they don’t interfere with page items. To use Item Marks: 1 Select an item, multiple items, or a group. 2 Choose Item Þ Item Marks. 3 Set up the crop marks using controls in the Crops, Marks, and Placement panes of the Item Marks dialog box. 4 Click OK to display the marks. 5 If the marks need adjustment, choose Edit Þ Undo and set up the marks again.
THE CROPS PANE THE BLEED AREA Controls in the Bleed area affect the marks for the bleed area of the item or page. The values in the Width and Height fields are expressed as a value offset outward from the trim. The minimum value for the Bleed Height and Width fields is 0 points and the maximum is 72 points. THE SAFETY AREA Controls in the Safety area affect the marks for the “live” area within the trim area. The values in the Width and Height fields are expressed as a value offset inward from the trim.
USING THE CROPS PANE USING THE CROPS PANE The easiest way to see the effects of controls in the Crops pane is to review the examples shown here with a picture box measuring 24×24 picas (4"×4"). EXAMPLE 1 In this simple example, Crop Marks is checked in the Trim area. No other options are checked in the Trim, Bleed, or Safety areas. Crop marks indicated for the trim area. EXAMPLE 2 In this example, Crop Marks and Guides are checked for the Trim area. Crop marks and guides set for the trim area.
USING THE CROPS PANE EXAMPLE 3 In this example, Arrows is checked in the Trim area in addition to Crop Marks and Guides. Note that for the arrow on the right side, the text is rotated 90° to the right, so that the baseline for the dimension text is facing the item. Crop marks, guides, and arrows set for the trim area. EXAMPLE 4 Guides is now checked in the Bleed area in addition to Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows in the Trim area. The edges of the bleed area are offset 9 points from the trim area.
USING THE CROPS PANE EXAMPLE 5 Here, Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows is checked in all three areas — the Trim, the Bleed, and the Safety. Notice how with the bleed, the dimension arrow aligns with the outer point of the crop mark, for the trim it aligns with the center, and for the safety it aligns with the inner point. Crop marks, arrows, and guides for the trim, bleed, and safety areas. THE MARKS PANE The Marks pane contains controls for Press Marks, Plate Tags, and Mark Specifications.
THE MARKS PANE THE PRESS MARKS AREA When Targets is checked in the Press Marks area, four buttons displaying the four types of targets are available: Round Positive, Round Negative, Square Positive, and Square Negative. They are each comprised of QuarkXPress items and are placed centered on all four sides in the trim area. • The Round Positive marks consist of a QuarkXPress circular box with a white background, a .25-point frame, and two .25-point cross members that are both Registration color.
THE MARKS PANE • When CMYK Tags is checked, a white text box containing the letters “CMYK,” with each letter colored its corresponding color is placed outside the trim area, and is located at left. • If text is entered in the Notes field, a white text box containing the text in 7-point Helvetica is placed outside the trim area at the bottom. The Notes field is limited to 1,024 characters.
USING THE MARKS PANE EXAMPLE 2 Color Bars and Gray Bars are now checked in addition to Targets and Crop Marks in the Trim area. Note how the color and gray bars are placed underneath the target marks. The target marks should always remain frontmost. Color bars and gray bars are placed under target marks. EXAMPLE 3 All the Plate Tags are checked — Project Name, Date & Time, and CMYK Tags — and Notes are added. Note the placement for each. Small text boxes display plate tags in 7-point Helvetica.
THE PLACEMENT PANE THE PLACEMENT PANE The Placement pane controls where marks are placed. Look here for information about how the controls in the Placement pane work. The Placement pane of the Item Marks dialog box. THE POSITION AREA The Position controls determine the position of the Quark Item Marks in relation to the selected items or page. • The Vertical field specifies the vertical position of the trim area on the page.
WHAT IT IS Chapter 2: Quark MarkIt WHAT IT IS Quark MarkIt lets you quickly and consistently add press marks — such as trim lines, registration targets, and color and gray bars — to QuarkXPress layouts during output. You can also customize Quark MarkIt by adding your own EPS marks. WHAT QUARK MARKIT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS Quark MarkIt XTensions software adds to QuarkXPress the MarkIt Styles dialog box (Edit Þ MarkIt Styles) and the MarkIt pane to the Print Layout dialog box (File Þ Print).
WHAT IT IS HOW IT WORKS With Quark MarkIt, you define styles for the placement of a specific set of press marks using (Edit Þ MarkIt Styles). You then apply the styles when you print (File Þ Print Layout). Quark MarkIt Styles are saved with the XTensions module, so they are available to all your projects. Quark MarkIt applies the press marks for output only — it does not add items to the layout or alter the layout in any way.
THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX The Edit MarkIt Styles dialog box displays when you click New, Edit, or Duplicate in the MarkIt Styles dialog box. To place press marks, drag them from the Press Marks bar at left to the layout. Context menus let you customize the marks. For information about specific controls in the Edit MarkIt Style dialog box, look in this section. Dragging a color bar to the page in the Edit MarkIt Style dialog box.
THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX THE REGISTRATION AREA FIELD Enter a value in the Registration Area field to specify the thickness of the registration area or trim margin that displays along each edge of the print area of the page. The value can be between 12 pt and 288 pt. THE PAGE BLEED FIELD Enter a value in the Page Bleed field to define the bleed zone around the print area of the page. Trim lines and crop marks are offset this distance from the print area to allow for page bleed.
THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX THE PRESS MARKS BAR The scroll list at left displays the press marks you can add to pages. Displaying a context menu in the Press Marks bar. • To place a mark, drag its icon from the Press Marks bar to the page preview. The values in the X and Y fields below the page preview help guide the placement. When a press mark is added to a style, it is framed in the Press Marks bar.
THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX • To automatically place marks, Control+click/right-click the mark and choose Auto Place from the context menu. See “Auto Place Dialog Box” later in this section. • To remove a press mark from a style, Control+click/right-click the mark in the Press Marks bar, and then choose Remove All from Style from the context menu. • To delete a press mark that you never use from the Press Marks bar, Control+click/right-click the mark, and then choose Delete from the context menu.
THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX • To remove a mark, select it and press Delete. Or, Control+click/right-click the mark in the page preview and choose Remove from the context menu. • To access a context menu for editing most press marks, Control+click/right-click the mark. Choose Duplicate, Remove, Setup, or Offset. The context menu that displays for press marks in the page preview. • To increase the view scale in the page preview, click the zoom icon in the lower-right corner.
THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX Rather than dragging multiple copies of a mark into position, you can use the Auto Place dialog box to place marks. Control+click/right-click a mark in the Press Marks bar and choose Auto Place. Note that Auto Place is not available for crop marks or trim lines. • Edge Offset: Enter a value in the field to specify the distance between the trim and the nearest edge of the mark’s bounding box.
THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX The Method options specify where the marks are to be placed. • Center: Marks are centered according to the Edge Offset value. • Off Center: Marks are placed this distance from the page centerpoints. • Corners: Marks are placed in the corners of the sides selected in the Apply To area. • Right of Corners and Left of Corners: The marks are offset in the specified direction (right is clockwise, left is counterclockwise) by the amount in the Page Offset field.
THE SETUP DIALOG BOXES THE TEXT SETUP DIALOG BOX If you choose Setup for a text slug, the Text Setup dialog box displays. Check the information to include in the slug. To include additional information, such as a job number, check Other and enter the information in the field. The Text Setup dialog box (Setup for text slugs). THE MARK SETUP DIALOG BOX If you choose Setup for a target, color bar, or gray bar, the Mark Setup dialog box displays.
THE MARKIT PANE OF THE PRINT LAYOUT DIALOG BOX THE MARKIT PANE OF THE PRINT LAYOUT DIALOG BOX Once you have created or imported Quark MarkIt styles, you can select a style from the MarkIt pane of the Print Layout dialog box (File Þ Print). • Style: Choose a style from the drop-down menu to print the specified press marks on each page of the layout. To print the layout without marks, choose No Style.
INTRODUCTION Chapter 3: Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress Quark Imposer is XTensions software for QuarkXPress that imposes layout pages into printer flats. Quark Imposer offers three sheet types (2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up) and five imposition types (Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet Wise). To meet all your imposition needs, you can choose which pages to impose and how many signatures to create, so you can use different imposition methods for the same layout.
OVERVIEW OVERVIEW To use Quark Imposer, follow these steps: 1 With the layout to impose active, display the Imposer dialog box (File Þ Imposer). 2 Set up the imposition using the Layout and Preview panes of the Imposer dialog box. The Layout pane in the Imposer dialog box.
OVERVIEW 3 Use the Preview pane to verify that your Layout settings will work for the print job. The Preview pane in the Imposer dialog box. 4 Add press marks by selecting a Quark MarkIt style (optional).
OVERVIEW 5 Click Print to specify further settings using the Imposer pane of the Print Layout dialog box. The Imposer pane of the Print Layout dialog box. Quark Imposer provides help in the form of Tooltips that display when you point at a control. In addition, an information area at the bottom of the Imposer dialog box summarizes all your settings so you can view them in both the Preview and Layout panes. The information area at the bottom of the the Imposer dialog box.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS Before you set up printer flats, you should work closely with the printer, bindery, and other vendors to confirm that the imposition will work with their setup. The printer might, in fact, simply tell you how to set it up. When setting up printer flats, you’ll use a combination of controls in the Preview and Layout panes. Then, you’ll use the QuarkXPress Print Layout dialog box to print the pages.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS STEP 2: SPECIFYING AN IMPOSITION TYPE Because the type of imposition interacts with the binding and determines which other options are available, it’s important to understand how each type functions. • Standard places the number of pages you specify for the sheet type on each flat: Two for 2-Up, four for 4-Up, or eight for 8-Up.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS If you choose Sheet Wise, choose an option from the Units drop-down menu. If you choose Split Web, enter a value in the Sheets field and click the arrows at the bottom of the Layout pane to view the different forms. For Split Web imposition with multiple sheets, you can use the arrows at the bottom of the Layout pane to view the different forms.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS The Binding drop-down menu in the General area. STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES Once you have the pages arranged, you can rearrange pages if necessary and decide whether pages need to be flipped (head-to-head, for example). • To flip pages, click the Page Flipping tool in the Layout pane. Click the thumbnails to flip them; in 4-Up Standard, 4-Up Work & Turn, or 4-Up Work & Tumble, you can flip the top and bottom sets of thumbnails separately.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS HOW CREEP WORKS Quark Imposer considers the “cover” of the final piece to be the outermost printer flat while the “centerfold” is considered to be the innermost printer flat. The term “sheet” is used to represent two printer flats — the front of the sheet and the back of the sheet. The “creep increment” is calculated by dividing the user-supplied creep value by the total number of sheets minus one.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS The Margins area in the Layout pane. STEP 9: SPECIFYING GAPS Values in the Gaps area (select Gaps in the Layout pane) specify the amount of space to place between imposed pages and spreads. Enter values between 0 and 288 pts in the Vertical, Horizontal, and Spread fields. The Gaps area in the Layout pane. • The Vertical field represents the distance between the right side of the left page and the left side of the right page.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS STEP 10: SPECIFYING REGISTRATION MARKS Quark Imposer lets you print documents without registration marks, with standard registration marks, and with custom registration marks from Quark MarkIt XTensions software (included with Quark Print Collection). To specify registration marks, choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu in the Preview pane. The Registration drop-down menu in the Preview pane. • Choose Off to print without registration marks.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS 3 Specify which flats to print in the Pages area. Specify All to print all the printer flats. (The flat numbers are displayed in the Flat drop-down menu in the lower-left corner of the Preview pane.) 4 Choose which printer flats to print from the Sequence drop-down menu: All, Odd, or Even. 5 If you plan to flip the pages, check Flip Back of Sheets in the Imposer pane. The Imposer pane of the Print Layout dialog box.
TILING WITH QUARK IMPOSER TILING WITH QUARK IMPOSER If your document page size is larger than the paper you’re printing on, you can print the imposed pages in tiles. To do this: 1 Click the Imposer tab in the Print Layout dialog box. The Tiling controls in the Imposer pane. 2 To activate tiling, select Manual or Automatic. • If you select Manual, you can specify an X Offset (vertical) and Y Offset (horizontal). The values are limited by the paper height and width, respectively, minus the margins.
CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS You are not limited to a single imposition type within a layout. You can choose which pages to impose a certain way, print those, and then impose and print the remaining pages separately. For example, you might need to print the covers of a document separately. The Preview pane provides these controls in the View area: • All: Select this option to print all pages in the document.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS NAVIGATING PAGES IN THE PREVIEW You can navigate through the previews using the scroll bar or using keyboard commands. FLAT SCROLL BAR KEYBOARD First n/a Home Last n/a End Next Click right arrow Right arrow Previous Click left arrow Left arrow Back several Click left side Page down Forward several Click right side Page up Any Drag scroll box n/a To preview a specific printer flat, choose one from the Flat drop-down menu next to the scroll bar.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS DISPLAYING GUIDES, BLEEDS, AND PAGE NUMBERS Settings in the Preview Options dialog box control whether page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers display in the previews by default. While previewing flats, you can quickly hide and display these visual aids using the context menu. To change these options, Control+click/right-click anywhere in the Preview pane to display the context menu. The context menu for displaying guides and page numbers.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS The Preview pane with page guides, bleed guides and page numbers displayed. 3 Use the buttons in the Color area to customize the color of the page guides, the bleed guides, and the page number swatches. 4 When you’ve finished modifying these options, click OK to save your changes. CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES Once you set up an imposition for a document, you can save it as a style.
CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES STANDARD STYLE Quark Imposer comes with a default imposition style called Standard. If Standard or any other style is italicized, it means you have overridden its settings with your own settings. If you’re setting up an imposition for a onetime use, you can continue working this way. Otherwise, either edit Standard to include your own settings or create a style.
CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES EDITING THE STYLE LIST Once you’ve created a variety of styles, you might need to start renaming or deleting some of the styles. To do this: 1 Choose Edit from the Style menu in the upper-left corner of the Preview or Layout pane. The Imposer Styles dialog box. 2 To delete a style, select it and click Delete. Shift+click to select contiguous styles; Command+click/Ctrl+click to select noncontinuous styles. 3 To rename a style, select it and click Rename.
SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS Margins, Gaps, or Bleed fields), then click the Preview tab. To print all the pages in the document, select All. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then click Print. This setup prints eight 2-page printer flats. Now, let’s say the printer requests a four-up configuration for the same layout. All you do is click the 4-Up tab in the Layout pane and leave the Type set at Standard. All the other settings remain the same.
SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS WORK & TURN SCENARIO Let’s say you’ve got a four-page brochure and the printer is planning to print this 4-up as a work-and-turn job and has requested composed flats. In the Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab, choose Work & Turn from the Type drop-down menu and either Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound from the Binding drop-down menu (General area). Enter values in the other fields as necessary, then click the Preview tab. Enter 1–4 in the Range field.
INTRODUCTION Chapter 4: Quark Imposer for Acrobat Quark Imposer is a plug-in for Adobe® Acrobat® Professional that creates a new PDF from your original, multi-page PDF file, imposing its pages into printer flats. Quark Imposer for Acrobat offers three sheet types (2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up) and five imposition types (Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet Wise).
INTRODUCTION To use Quark Imposer, follow these steps: 1 Open the Acrobat PDF file to impose. 2 Display the Imposer dialog box (File Þ Imposer). 3 Set up the imposition using the Layout and Preview panes of the Imposer dialog box. The Layout pane in the Imposer dialog box.
INTRODUCTION 4 Use the Preview pane to verify that your Layout settings will work for the job. The Preview pane in the Imposer dialog box. 5 Click Create to produce a new PDF file with imposed printer flats displaying printer’s marks and information about each flat. Quark Imposer provides help in the form of Tooltips that display when you point at a control.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS Before you set up printer flats, you should work closely with the printer, bindery, and other vendors to confirm that the imposition will work with their setup. The printer might, in fact, simply tell you how to set it up. When setting up printer flats, you’ll use a combination of controls in the Preview and Layout panes. Then, you’ll click the Create button to produce a new PDF document containing each printer flat on separate pages.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS • Work & Tumble places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages per flat, in which the printed press sheet is tumbled top to bottom. Saddle Stitch and Perfect Bound binding yields unique printer spreads, which are then duplicated front and back. • Split Web, available only for 8-Up sheets, places eight pages on each flat. Split Web allows you to impose a document over several forms when printing to a web press that can be configured to run multiple roll stands.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS For Split Web imposition with multiple sheets, you can use the arrows at the bottom of the Layout pane to view the different forms. STEP 3: SPECIFYING A BINDING TYPE The type of binding you choose affects how the printer flats are created: • Choose Saddle Stitch if the pages will be stapled. • Choose Perfect Bound if the pages will be bound to the cover with adhesive. • Choose Stacked if the pages will be three-hole punched, spiral bound, or comb bound.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES Once you have the pages arranged, you can rearrange pages if necessary and decide whether pages need to be flipped (head-to-head, for example). • To flip pages, click the Page Flipping tool in the Layout pane. Click the thumbnails to flip them; in 4-Up Standard, 4-Up Work & Turn, or 4-Up Work & Tumble, you can flip the top and bottom sets of thumbnails separately. in the Layout • To rearrange pages, click the Page Sequence Numbering tool pane.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS The amount of creep applied to the outermost sheet is 24 pts, the amount of creep applied to the second sheet is 16 pts and the amount of creep applied to the third sheet is 8 pts. No creep applies to the fourth and innermost sheet. As our example illustrates, the amount of creep for each successive sheet was decreased by the creep increment.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS The Gaps area in the Layout pane. • The Vertical field represents the distance between the right side of the left page and the left side of the right page. A Vertical gap value is required if the flat has a crossover. For Perfect Bound publications, if you are creeping in (with a negative value), the minimum Vertical gap value is the width of the Creep value.
SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS STEP 11: CREATING AN IMPOSED PDF FILE WITH QUARK IMPOSER Quark Imposer for Adobe Acrobat Professional creates a new PDF file with imposed printer flats from a regular multi-page PDF file. To create an imposed PDF with Quark Imposer: 1 Choose File Þ Imposer, then confirm all the settings in the Preview and Layout panes of the Imposer dialog box. 2 Click Create in the Imposer dialog box or press Return/Enter.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS The Preview pane of the Imposer dialog box lets you confirm the settings you make in the Layout pane. For example, you can see how the pages are rotated and you can check the bleed amount. To open the Imposer dialog box, choose File Þ Imposer. To switch between the Preview and Layout panes, click the tabs. Use the resize box in the lower-right corner to increase the previewing area.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING PAGE IN THE PDF To see the PDF page that corresponds with a preview, double-click that page in the page preview. Acrobat displays the page in the document window. DISPLAYING GUIDES, BLEEDS, AND PAGE NUMBERS Settings in the Preview Options dialog box control whether page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers display in the previews by default.
PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS The Preview pane with page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers displayed. Use the buttons in the Color area to customize the color of the page guides, the bleed guides, and the page number swatches. CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES Once you set up an imposition for a document, you can save it as an “imposition style.
CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES STANDARD STYLE Quark Imposer comes with a default imposition style called Standard. If Standard or any other style is italicized, it means you have overridden its settings with your own settings. If you’re setting up an imposition for a onetime use, you can continue working this way. Otherwise, either edit Standard to include your own settings or create a style.
CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES EDITING THE STYLE LIST Once you create a variety of styles, you might need to start renaming or deleting some of the styles. To do this: 1 Choose Edit from the Style drop-down menu in the upper-left corner of the Preview or Layout pane. The Imposer Styles dialog box. 2 To delete a style, select it and click Delete. Shift+click to select contiguous styles; Command+click/Ctrl+click to select noncontinuous styles. 3 To rename a style, select it and click Rename.
HANDLING PDFS WITH BLEED INCLUDED 3 Enter the bleed amount (from step 1) into each of the fields: Top, Bottom, Left, and Right. 4 Under Page Range, click All to assure all pages are cropped, and choose Even and Odd Pages from the Apply to drop-down menu below it. 5 Click OK, and the PDF should now be cropped to the final trim size. Using Quark Imposer at this point yields the expected results.
SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS • Guts output: In the Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab (if your printer requests printer spreads, click the 2-Up tab). Specify any necessary values (for example, in the Margins, Gaps, or Bleed fields), noting that the horizontal gap setting for the spine is no longer necessary. Click the Preview tab and enter 3–114 in the Range field. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then click Create.
SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS SPLIT WEB SCENARIO In this example, say you’re creating an imposed PDF file for a 16-page book which will be printed to a web press with two roll stands. Each press unit prints an 8-page signature. Both rolls are printed at the same time and collated in line to be final folded into a 16-page stapled book.
