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nter the bleed amount (from step 1) into each of the fields:
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op, 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.
No information is discarded when you crop a page from within Adobe
Acrobat Professional — cropping controls only the on-screen viewable area.
SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS
To use Quark Imposer effectively, you need to fully understand the types
of imposition it offers. This section provides a real-world example of the
imposition types in action.
SADDLE-STITCH SCENARIO
Let’s say you’re creating printer spreads for a 16-page document. In the
Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Saddle Stitch from the Binding
drop-down menu. Specify any necessary values (for example, in the Margins,
Gaps,
or Bleed fields), then click the Preview tab. To create a new, imposed
PDF containing all the pages from the original document, click
All. Choose
an option from the
Registration drop-down menu, then click Create. This
setup creates a new PDF file containing eight 2-page printer flats.
Now, let’s say the printer requests a four-up configuration for the same
document. 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. If you
specified a
Bleed value, the Horizontal field (Gap area) is automatically
set to twice the
Bleed value.) This setup prints four 4-page printer flats.
PERFECT-BOUND SCENARIO
Let’s say your document is 116 pages (including the front and back covers).
This job might require two print runs, one for the cover and one for the guts.
• Cover output: In the
Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Perfect Bound
from the Binding drop-down menu. To compensate for the spine, enter a value
in the
Horizontal fi
eld (
Gap area). Enter values in the other fields as necessar
y
,
then click the
Preview tab. Enter 1, 2, 115, 116 in the Range field. Choose an
option from the
Registration drop-down menu, then click Create. This setup
creates a new
, imposed PDF fi
le containing the fi
rst two printer flats.
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