Page Gaps in Imposition Wizard

Imposition Wizard arranges pages on the sheet into the grid and the grid may have gaps between rows and columns. You can use the gaps to move the pages closer or further of each other, depending on your needs.

Simple Page Gaps

Let’s start with a simple 8–Up layout like this:

The grid is 2x4 and both horizontal and vertical gaps are 0.5 centimeters. Let’s set the vertical gap to 2 centimeters:

The distance between rows has been increased and all the rows are now further from each other. That’s how gaps work.

Complex Page Gaps

There is a more interesting feature of gaps that let you specify different gaps for different rows. Let’s enter “2 0” into the vertical gaps field:

You may see that the distance between the first and second rows is still 2cm, while the second and third rows have no vertical gap at all. Then the distance between the third and fourth rows is again 2cm.

This way you can define multiple gaps. For each next row Imposition Wizard look for the next number in the vertical gaps list. While the numbers are there, it takes and uses them one by one. Once the list is other, Imposition Wizard starts again from the beginning of the list.

For the simple case, when the vertical gaps list was just “2” Imposition Wizard reads this number for each row, so all the rows were evenly distributed with 2cm distance.

Then we changed it to “2 0” and for the first pair of rows, Imposition Wizard used 2cm, then for the next pair it was 0cm. Finally, for the third pair the list was over, so it started again and got 2cm.

Here we put “0 2 4” to vertical gaps list:

As expected, the distances between each pair of rows is 0cm, 2cm and 4cm.

Multiple gaps are useful for manual making of booklets using shuffle imposition layout. This way you can group pages together, leaving the gaps only where they are needed.

More Imposition Wizard Tutorials

Installation

• Installation — how to install Imposition Wizard;
• License Activation — how to activate Imposition Wizard with a license key;
• Acrobat Plugin Problems — what to do if the plugin doesn’t work.

Basics

• User Interface — how to run Imposition Wizard and make the first steps;
• Pages Grid — how pages are placed across the sheets in Imposition Wizard;
• Presets — how to save and re–use imposition layouts.

Layouts

• N–Up — a very simple, yet customizable layout;
• Step and Repeat — perfect layout for business cards;
• Cut Stack — flexible layout with pages flow options;
• Booklet — lots of options for fine–tuning the imposition process;
• Shuffle — manual imposition mode where you control the flow;
• Dutch Cut — save paper by printing more pages on the same sheet.

Imposition Parameters

• Source Panel — overriding trim box and bleeds, pages scaling;
• Page Gaps — configuring gaps between pages;
• Sheet Panel — output sheet size, content position and more;
• Duplex Printing — duplex printing support;
• Registration Marks — adding and configuring marks, custom texts etc;
• Flipping Rules — how to flip pages in most layouts.

Registration Marks

• Angle Mark — angle mark for image drift compensation;
• Barcode — encoding job details with barcodes;
• Bull Eye — placing bull eye marks around the pages;
• Color Bar — adding color bars to imposed files;
• Crop Marks — configuring crop marks for easier trimming;
• Custom Mark — adding ad–hoc graphics where needed;
• Custom Text — adding text elements with imposition details;
• Gap Crop Marks — adding crop marks in the middle of the page gaps;
• Folding Marks — marking the middle of booklet spreads;
• Star Target — placing star target marks around the pages;
• Trim Line — marking page boundaries to simplify trimming;

Automation

• Batch Processing — impose multiple files at once;
• Hot Folders — monitor folders and run imposition on changes.

Command Line

• Basic Imposition — basic command line imposition example.