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RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT
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PDF Snake
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plus
Plug-In
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Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone
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Operating systems supported
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Windows
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Macintosh
Windows
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Macintosh
Windows
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Macintosh
Windows
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Supports batch processing
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YES
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NO
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NO
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YES
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FILE FORMATS
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PDF Snake
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plus
Plug-In
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Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone
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Input formats supported
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PDF
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PDF
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PDF
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PDF
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Output formats supported
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PDF
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PDF
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PDF
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PDF
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IMPOSITION FEATURES
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PDF Snake
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing
Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plus
Plug-In
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Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone
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Imposition schemes supported
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• Booklets
• N-up
• Step-and-repeat
• User-defined
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• Booklets
• N-up
• User-defined
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• Booklets
• N-up
• Step-and-repeat
• User-defined
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• Booklets
• N-up
• Step-and-repeat
• User-defined
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Lets you save a series of imposition commands and re-use them
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YES
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Handles creep for booklets
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you lay out one or more pages on a background: for example, a watermark
(this capability is sometimes referred to as "overlay" or
"underlay")
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you add margins
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you add gutters (space between adjacent pages on a press sheet)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you re-position page contents by moving them up, down, left, or right
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NO
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you make pages larger or smaller by scaling them
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you make pages larger or smaller by adding or removing whitespace from left, right, top, bottom of page
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NO
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you rotate pages
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you rotate pages at angles that are not 90 degrees from zero
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YES
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NO
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NO
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NO
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Lets you impose pages that have bleeds (with contents reaching over the edges, for trimming)
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YES
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you do stack sorting
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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EXTRAS
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PDF Snake Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plus Plug-In
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Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone
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Lets you add page numbers
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YES
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you add Bates numbers
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YES
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you add arbitrary text instead of or in addition to page numbers
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you specify font and font size to be used for page numbers and arbitrary text
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you position page numbers precisely
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you position arbitrary text precisely
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you mask out (erase) existing text and graphics in specific locations
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Lets you process individual pages separately
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NO
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you process even and odd pages separately
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NO
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you reverse the order of pages in a document
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YES, but only feasible for relatively short documents
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you add crop marks (trim marks)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Lets you check the PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 status of a PDF file.
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NO
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NO
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YES
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NO
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Lets you preserve the PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 data in an imposition.
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NO
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NO
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YES
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YES
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Preserves form fields throughout the imposition process
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NO
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The form fields cannot be preserved as "live"
fields, but you can either choose to discard the data contained in form
fields or you can choose to
flatten the form fields.
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Comes with a library of pre-made imposition layouts
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NO — you define your own layouts
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NO — you define your own layouts
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NO — you define your own layouts
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NO — you define your own layouts
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PRICING INFO
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PDF Snake Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plug-In
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Quite Imposing Plus Plug-In
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Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone
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$335.00 USD
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$465.00 USD
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$885.00 USD
Upgrade from Quite Imposing Plug-In to Quite Imposing Plus Plug-In
for for $465.00 USD.
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$3,479.00 USD
Upgrade from Quite Imposing Plus Plug-In to Quite Hot Imposing
Stand-Alone for $2,959.00 USD.
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