Hi
I have a question about imposing booklets with bleed using Quite Imposing 1.6 Plus (an old version I know).
Let's say I have a PDF document which is A4 with 2mm bleed on all edges (214 x 301mm). I want to impose this into a saddle stitched booklet. Of course I don't need any bleed on the inside edges (where the fold will occur), only on the top, bottom, and outside edges. Ultimately I need an imposed PDF which is 424 x 301 mm (A3 with 2mm bleed) to send to the RIP.
Currently, I do this:
1) Crop 2mm off the left side of odd pages and 2mm off the right side of even pages in Acrobat to make the page size 212 x 301mm
2) Re-PDF (print to PDF from Acrobat) to a page size of 212 x 301mm (as this "crystallizes" the page size and removes the bleed information)
3) Use create booklet in Quite Imposing to make the booklet. There is no bleed information stored in the document and I don't need to define bleeds, everything works fine.
This method works fine and gives me a print ready file however it doesn't seem like it is the cleanest or best way of doing it.
I'd like to be able to skip steps 1 and 2 and just be able to define the bleeds in quite imposing then go straight to create booklet.
I've played around with trying different settings in the define bleeds window but when I create the booklet it's not correct. For example, in define bleeds I told it there was 2mm bleed on the left edges of the odd pages and 2mm bleed on the right edges of the even pages. However, when I created the booklet it took 4mm off the right side of the even pages and none off the odd pages (which gave me the correct page size but obviously took no bleed off the odd pages and 2mm too much off the even pages).
Could anyone assist me in the correct way of doing this?
If you need sample PDFs of the document please let me know
Cheers
Michael
I have a question about imposing booklets with bleed using Quite Imposing 1.6 Plus (an old version I know).
Let's say I have a PDF document which is A4 with 2mm bleed on all edges (214 x 301mm). I want to impose this into a saddle stitched booklet. Of course I don't need any bleed on the inside edges (where the fold will occur), only on the top, bottom, and outside edges. Ultimately I need an imposed PDF which is 424 x 301 mm (A3 with 2mm bleed) to send to the RIP.
Currently, I do this:
1) Crop 2mm off the left side of odd pages and 2mm off the right side of even pages in Acrobat to make the page size 212 x 301mm
2) Re-PDF (print to PDF from Acrobat) to a page size of 212 x 301mm (as this "crystallizes" the page size and removes the bleed information)
3) Use create booklet in Quite Imposing to make the booklet. There is no bleed information stored in the document and I don't need to define bleeds, everything works fine.
This method works fine and gives me a print ready file however it doesn't seem like it is the cleanest or best way of doing it.
I'd like to be able to skip steps 1 and 2 and just be able to define the bleeds in quite imposing then go straight to create booklet.
I've played around with trying different settings in the define bleeds window but when I create the booklet it's not correct. For example, in define bleeds I told it there was 2mm bleed on the left edges of the odd pages and 2mm bleed on the right edges of the even pages. However, when I created the booklet it took 4mm off the right side of the even pages and none off the odd pages (which gave me the correct page size but obviously took no bleed off the odd pages and 2mm too much off the even pages).
Could anyone assist me in the correct way of doing this?
If you need sample PDFs of the document please let me know
Cheers
Michael