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Imposition Wizard 3.5.2

01 Aug 2024

This is a first public release of Imposition Wizard 3.5 and if you haven’t tried the beta versions, you’ll find a lot of nice new features there. Read on for more details.

Pages Rotation

All the layouts except booklets got Rotate page 90° option. Combined with the Flip pages option they let you rotate source pages all the way around.

The new Content rotation parameter on the Sheet tab lets you rotate the whole page block 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Sheet Margins

Horizontal and vertical offsets and padding parameters on the Sheet tab were replaced with the new Margins block.

You can now provide margins for all the sides of the sheet and Imposition Wizard will make sure the pages stay inside in automatic mode. In manual mode you will get a preflight warning if pages don’t fit.

Automatic Color Bars

New automatic color bar option is added to the Marks panel. You can add automatic color bars the same way you add the PDF–based ones.

The automatic color bars read all the spot colors used in the imposition and automatically display them. You can add CMYK colors there, if needed.

New Barcodes

New Data Matrix and QR code barcodes are added. You can select between them and Code 39 when adding a barcode mark to the layout.

Trim Box Override

Imposition Wizard no longer supports negative overridden trim offset. Most of you probably never used it anyways, otherwise you will be warned on startup — consider using the page scaling option instead.

Another change is that Imposition Wizard now displays the new trim and bleed box sizes if you override the boxes.

Translation Support

If you miss Imposition Wizard in your native language, you can now translate it yourself right in the application.

Other Changes

Here’s the list of other changes since version 3.4:

booklet creep section lets you choose if you want to offset the inner, outer of both edges of pages;
folding mark option is added to the Marks section, works for booklets;
source pages can be centered and cropped instead of scaling;
custom texts got new "{spot-colors}" dynamic variable for listing the spot colors of the current imposition;
custom texts also got new dynamic variables for margins, see the dynamic variables drop–down menu for details;
custom texts got Flip upside down parameter that does exactly what it says;
crop marks got Skip empty cells option to let you draw marks around empty page slots;
right–clicking the sheet preview displays a popup menu with the grid information and some handy commands;
hot folders mode now supports saving files to the source folder;
hot folders mode now detects presets list changes;
presets can be imported and exported from the file menu.

There’s also a number of other issues fixed, including the Acrobat plugin problems with certain PDF files, startup freezes and some shuffle–related things.

That’s it, enjoy the update :)

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