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Imposition, in practice
Working notes on prepress: choosing a mode, getting the marks right, and the failures that only show up once the sheet is on the press.
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Imposing in InDesign vs a dedicated imposition tool
InDesign can print a booklet and a script can gang a sheet. Here is where that approach holds up, where it quietly stops, and what you actually give up by staying inside the layout application.
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How to impose a saddle-stitch booklet
Page count, signature size, fold order and what the cover spine option is actually for — a working method for getting a folded, stitched booklet to read correctly.
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N-Up, Step and Repeat or Cut & Stack for business cards?
Three modes will all put cards on a sheet, and they produce three different piles after the guillotine. Which one you want depends entirely on whether the cards are identical.
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Why your duplex backs print upside down
The imposition is usually right and the flip axis is wrong. What long-edge and short-edge binding actually do to the sheet, and a one-sheet test that settles it before you commit a run.
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Why your crop marks land in the wrong place
Marks that sit inside the bleed, marks that move when you scale, marks the cutter cannot see. Almost all of it comes down to what the marks were measured from.
10 min read
Free PDF imposition tools, honestly compared
Command-line utilities, browser uploaders and print-dialogue booklet options all impose PDFs for nothing. What each one is genuinely good at, and the specific point at which each stops.