Quark Print Collection - 1.1 Operation Manual

Quark Print Collection User Guide

LEGAL NOTICES

Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Quark Technology Partnership or its licensee, Quark Inc. Quark Products and materials are subject to the copyright and other intellectual property protection of the United States and foreign countries. Unauthorized use or reproduction without Quark’s written consent is prohibited.

QUARK IS NOT THE MANUFACTURER OF THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR OTHER THIRD PARTY HARDWARE (HEREINAFTER “THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS”) AND SUCH THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS HAVE NOT BEEN CREATED, REVIEWED, OR TESTED BY QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES OR THEIR LICENSORS. (QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON, BRANCH, OR ENTITY CONTROLLING, CONTROLLED BY OR UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH QUARK OR ITS PARENT OR A MAJORITY OF THE QUARK SHAREHOLDERS, WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR FORMED IN THE FUTURE, TOGETHER WITH ANY PERSON, BRANCH, OR ENTITY WHICH MAY ACQUIRE SUCH STATUS IN THE FUTURE.)

QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES AND/OR THEIR LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE QUARK PRODUCTS/SERVICES AND/OR THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS/SERVICES, THEIR MERCHANTABILITY, OR THEIR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES AND THEIR LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE QUARK PRODUCTS/SERVICES AND ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS/SERVICES. ALL OTHER WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR COLLATERAL, AND WHETHER OR NOT, MADE BY DISTRIBUTORS, RETAILERS, XTENSIONS DEVELOPERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES ARE DISCLAIMED BY QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES AND THEIR LICENSORS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, COMPATIBILITY, OR THAT THE SOFTWARE IS ERROR-FREE OR THAT ERRORS CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. THIRD PARTIES MAY PROVIDE LIMITED WARRANTIES AS TO THEIR OWN PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES, AND USERS MUST LOOK TO SAID THIRD PARTIES FOR SUCH WARRANTIES, IF ANY. SOME JURISDICTIONS, STATES OR PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO PARTICULAR USERS.

IN NO EVENT SHALL QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIA THEIR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST TIME, LOST SA OR EXPENSES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM INSTALLATION OR USE OF THE QUARK PRODUCTS/SERVICES, IN ANY MANNER, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. IF, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES AND/OR THEIR LICENSORS ARE FOUND TO HAVE LIABILITY RELATING TO THE QUARK PRODUCTS/SERVICES OR THIRD P THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE USER TO QUARK FOR THE SOFTWARE/SERVICES

ARTY PRODUCTS/SER

VICES, SUCH LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO

TED COMP

VINGS, LOST DA

ANIES, AND/OR

TA, LOST FEES,

LEGAL NOTICES

AT ISSUE (EXCLUDING THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS/SERVICES), IF ANY, OR THE LOWEST AMOUNT UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WHICHEVER IS LESS. THESE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY EVEN IF QUARK, THE QUARK AFFILIATED COMPANIES, THEIR LICENSORS AND/OR THEIR AGENTS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF SUCH POSSIBLE DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS, STATES OR PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY. ALL OTHER LIMITATIONS PROVIDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING STATUTES OF LIMITATION, SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY.

IN THE EVENT ANY OF THESE PROVISIONS ARE OR BECOME UNENFORCEABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, SUCH PROVISION SHALL BE MODIFIED OR LIMITED IN ITS EFFECT TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO CAUSE IT TO BE ENFORCEABLE.

USE OF THE QUARK PRODUCTS IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT OR OTHER APPLICABLE AGREEMENTS FOR SUCH PRODUCT/SERVICE. IN THE EVENT OF A CONFLICT BETWEEN SUCH AGREEMENTS AND THESE PROVISIONS THE RELEVANT AGREEMENTS SHALL CONTROL.

Quark, QuarkXPress, and XTensions are trademarks of Quark Inc. and all applicable afﬁliated companies, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and in many other countries. The Quark logo is a trademark of Quark Inc. and all applicable afﬁliated companies. Adobe and Acrobat are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Helvetica is a trademark of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.

All other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

III

1 Quark Item Marks

hat It Is 1

What It Adds to QuarkXPress 1

How it works 1

The Crops Pane 2

The Trim Area 2

The Bleed Area 3

The Safety Area 3

Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows check boxes 3

Using the Crops Pane 4

Example 1 4

Example 2 4

Example 3 5

Example 4 5

Example 5 6

The Marks Pane 6

The Press Marks area 7

The Plate Tags area 7

The Mark Specifications area 8

Using the Marks Pane 8

Example 1 8

Example 2 9

Example 3 9

The Placement Pane 10

The Position area 10

The Layers area 10

2 Quark MarkIt

hat It Is 11

What Quark MarkIt adds to QuarkXPress 11

How it works 12

The MarkIt Styles Dialog Box 12

The Edit MarkIt Style Dialog Box 13

The Name field 13

The Registration area field 14

The Page bleed field 14

The Horizontal Trim and Vertical Trim fields 14

Preview controls: proxy, zoom field, page drop-down menu 14

The position marks relative to trim check box 14

The Press Marks bar 15

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page preview 16

The Import button 17

The X, Y Fields 17

The Remove button 17

The Auto Place Dialog Box 18

The Setup Dialog Boxes 19

The Trim Line Options dialog box 19

The Text Setup dialog box 20

The Mark Setup dialog box 20

The MarkIt Pane of the Print Layout Dialog Box 21

TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress

verview 23

Setting Up Printer Flats 26

Step 1: Specifying a Sheet Type 26

Step 2: Specifying an Imposition Type 27

Step 3: Specifying a Binding Type 28

Step 4: Flipping and Moving Pages 29

Step 5: Specifying Bleed 29

Step 6: Specifying Creep 29

How Creep Works 30

Step 7: Specifying Crossover 30

Step 8: Specifying Margins 30

Step 9: Specifying Gaps 31

Step 10: Specifying Registration Marks 32

Step 11: Printing with Quark Imposer 32

Tiling with Quark Imposer 34

Creating Custom Impositions 35

Previewing Printer Flats 35

Navigating Pages in the Preview 36

Displaying a Corresponding Page in QuarkXPress 36

Displaying Guides, Bleeds, and Page Numbers 37

Creating and Choosing Styles 38

Standard Style 39

Creating a Style 39

Choosing a Style 39

Updating a Style 39

Editing the Style List 40

Sharing Styles with Other Users 40

TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress C

ample Imposition Scenarios 40

Saddle-Stitch Scenario 40

Perfect-Bound Scenario 41

Stacked Scenario 41

Work & Turn Scenario 42

Work & Tumble Scenario 42

Split Web Scenario 42

4 Quark Imposer for Acrobat

Setting Up Printer Flats 46

Step 1: Specifying a Sheet Type 46

Step 2: Specifying an Imposition Type 46

Step 3: Specifying a Binding Type 48

Step 4: Flipping and Moving Pages 49

Step 5: Specifying Bleed 49

Step 6: Specifying Creep 49

ONTINUED

How Creep Works 49

Step 7: Specifying Crossover 50

Step 8: Specifying Margins 50

Step 9: Specifying Gaps 50

Step 10: Specifying Registration Marks 51

Step 11: Creating an imposed PDF file with Quark Imposer 52

Creating Custom Impositions 52

Previewing Printer Flats

Navigating Pages in the Preview 53

Displaying a Corresponding Page in the PDF 54

Displaying Guides, Bleeds, and Page Numbers 54

VII

TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 Quark Imposer for Acrobat C

reating and Choosing Styles 55

Standard Style 56

Creating a Style 56

Choosing a Style 56

Updating a Style 56

Editing the Style List 57

Sharing Styles with Other Users 57

Handling PDFs with Bleed Included 57

Sample Imposition Scenarios 58

Saddle-Stitch Scenario 58

Perfect-Bound Scenario 58

Stacked Scenario 59

Work & Turn Scenario 59

Work & Tumble Scenario 59

Split Web Scenario 60

ONTINUED

VIII

Chapter 1: Quark Item Marks

WHAT IT IS

Quark®Item Marks provides convenient methods for making crop marks and registration marks for individual items and pages.

WHAT IT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS

Quark Item Marks, XTensions®software, adds to QuarkXPress®the Item Marks dialog box (Item Þ Item Marks). The Item Marks dialog box contains three panes of controls:

WHAT IT IS

• Controls in the margin marks, guides, and dimension arrows.

• Controls in the Marks pane determine the type and placement of the registration marks, including targets, color bars, and text slugs.

• Controls in the Placement pane determine on what layer and where on the page — or in relation to the selected items — the marks, guides, and arrows are created.

The Item Marks dialog box.

Crops pane determine the placement of the crop, bleed,

HOW IT WORKS

Item Marks adds items and guides around selected items. Since the items are part of the layout pages, you might want to use Item Marks after layouts are ﬁnal and

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

WHAT IT IS

re ready for production. You can also place marks on a separate layer so they

a don’t interfere with page items. To use Item Marks:

1 Select an item, multiple items, or a group.

2 Choose Item Þ Item Marks.

3 Set up the crop marks using controls in the Crops, Marks, and Placement

panes of the Item Marks dialog box.

4 Click OK to display the marks.

5 If the marks need adjustment, choose Edit Þ Undo and set up the marks again.

To create crop marks for an entire page, create a box the exact dimensions of the page and place it behind all other items on the page ( Select this box when creating the marks.

THE CROPS PANE

The Crops pane contains controls for Trim, Bleed, and Safety. Look here for information about how the controls in the

Item Þ Send to Back).

Crops pane work.

The Crops pane of the Item Marks dialog box.

THE TRIM AREA

Controls in the T The values in the the selected item or group. The minimum value for the is 2 points and the maximum value is the width and height of the spread.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

rim

area affect the marks for trim size of the item or page.

idth

and Height ﬁ

elds default to the width and height of

Width and Height ﬁelds

THE CROPS PANE

THE BLEED AREA

Controls in the Bleed area affect the marks for the bleed area of the item or page. The values in the

Width and Height ﬁelds are expressed as a value offset

outward from the trim.

The minimum value for the

Bleed Height and Width ﬁelds is 0 points and

the maximum is 72 points.

THE SAFETY AREA

Controls in the Safety area affect the marks for the “live” area within the trim area. The values in the

Width and Height ﬁelds are expressed as a value offset

inward from the trim.

The minimum value for the

Safety Height and Width ﬁelds is 0 points, and

the maximum is 25% of the trim width and height.

The maximum values allowed for the Trim and Bleed ﬁelds is affected by the setting in the Placement pane.

CROP MARKS, GUIDES, AND ARROWS CHECK BOXES

The Trim, Bleed, and Safety areas each contain controls for crop marks, guides, and arrows.

• The

Crop Marks check box toggles on and off crop marks, which consist of

standard QuarkXPress lines. The user deﬁnes the crop mark thickness and length

Line Width and Line Length ﬁelds in the Marks pane.

in the

Guides check box gives you the option of creating exact guides that align

• The with the trim, bleed, or safety dimensions. The color of each for

Trim, Bleed,

and Margins can be set by clicking the color swatch next to the Guides check box. Quark Item Marks guides are standard QuarkXPress guides, which do not print.

• The

Arrows check box gives you the option of placing dimension arrows that align with the crop dimensions. Quark Item Marks arrows are standard black QuarkXPress lines with arrowhead end caps, and the dimensions are provided in standard QuarkXPress text boxes. The text boxes containing the dimensions are white with no frames and are placed over the arrows. The text is 7 point

Helvetica

, colored black. The thickness of the arrow is set in the Line Width ﬁeld in the Marks pane. When Arrows is checked, arrows will only be placed if the dimensions are large enough to allow for the text boxes containing the dimensions.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

USING THE CROPS PANE

he easiest way to see the effects of controls in the Crops pane is to review the

T examples shown here with a picture box measuring 24

EXAMPLE 1

In this simple example, Crop Marks is checked in the Trim area. No other options are checked in the

Crop marks indicated for the trim area.

×24 picas (4"×4").

Trim, Bleed, or Safety areas.

EXAMPLE 2

In this example, Crop Marks and Guides are checked for the Trim area.

Crop marks and guides set for the trim area.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

USING THE CROPS PANE

EXAMPLE 3

In this example, Arrows is checked in the Trim area in addition to Crop Marks and Guides. Note that for the arrow on the right side, the text is rotated 90° to the right, so that the baseline for the dimension text is facing the item.

Crop marks, guides, and arrows set for the trim area.

EXAMPLE 4

Guides is now checked in the Bleed area in addition to Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows in the Trim area. The edges of the bleed area are offset 9 points from the trim area.

Guides for the bleed area in addition to crop marks, guides, and arrows for the trim area.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

USING THE CROPS PANE

EXAMPLE 5

Here, Crop Marks, Guides, and Arrows is checked in all three areas — the Trim, the Bleed, and the Safety. Notice how with the bleed, the dimension arrow aligns with the outer point of the crop mark, for the trim it aligns with the center, and for the safety it aligns with the inner point.

Crop marks, arrows, and guides for the trim, bleed, and safety areas.

THE MARKS PANE

The Marks pane contains controls for Press Marks, Plate Tags, and Mark Speciﬁcations. Marks pane work.

The Marks pane of the Item Marks dialog box.

Look here for information about how the controls in the

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

THE MARKS PANE

THE PRESS MARKS AREA

When Targets is checked in the Press Marks area, four buttons displaying the four types of targets are available:

Positive,

and Square Negative. They are each comprised of QuarkXPress items

Round Positive, Round Negative, Square

and are placed centered on all four sides in the trim area.

Round Positive marks consist of a QuarkXPress circular box with a white

• The background, a .25-point frame, and two .25-point cross members that are both Registration color.

Round Negative targets are the same, except the colors are reversed.

• The

Square Positive Marks consist of a QuarkXPress square box with a white

• The background, a .25-point frame, and two .25-point cross members that are both Registration color.

• The

Square Negative targets are the same, except the colors are reversed.

If the area between the trim dimensions is too small to accommodate the targets, they will not be placed.

Press Marks area, when Color Bars and/or Gray Bars is checked, the

In the bars are placed outside the trim area.

• The

Color Bars in Quark Item Marks consist of boxes ﬁlled with a color for each ink deﬁned in the project along with a box containing a 50% shade of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. You set both the height and the width of each box in the

Gray Bars in Quark Item Marks are comprised of 10 boxes ﬁlled

• The

Mark Size ﬁeld in the Marks pane.

with 10%–100% Registration color, in increments of 10 percentage points. You set both the height and the width of each box in the

Marks pane.

in the

Mark Size ﬁeld

If the area between the trim dimensions is too small to accommodate the color and/or gray bars, they will not be placed.

THE PLATE TAGS AREA

Using the Plate Tags area, you can add a date and time, layout name, CMYK tags, and notes to your marks.

When

•

Date & Time is checked, a white text box containing the date and time

is placed outside the trim area and is located at top right.

s name is

When Layout Name is checked, a white text box containing the ﬁ

•

le’

placed outside the trim area and is located at top left.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

THE MARKS PANE

When CMYK Tags is checked, a white text box containing the letters “CMYK,”

• with each letter colored its corresponding color is placed outside the trim area, and is located at left.

• If text is entered in the in 7-point Helvetica is placed outside the trim area at the bottom. The ﬁeld is limited to 1,024 characters.

THE MARK SPECIFICATIONS AREA

The Mark Speciﬁcations controls determine the characteristics of the crop and registration marks.

• The marks. The default value is 0.25 point.

• The Line Length ﬁeld determines the length of the crop, bleed, and margin marks. The default value is .25".

• The Mark Size ﬁeld determines the size across of the target marks and the size across of each block comprising the color bars and gray bars. The default value is .25".

• The margin, and registration marks) will be placed. The default value is .25".

Notes ﬁeld, a white text box containing the text

Notes

Line Weight ﬁeld determines the thickness of the crop, bleed, and margin

Mark Offset value determines how far from the trim the marks (crop, bleed,

USING THE MARKS PANE

The easiest way to see the effects of controls in the Marks pane is to review the examples shown here with a picture box measuring 24

EXAMPLE 1

In addition to Crop Marks in the Trim area, this example shows Targets checked. Notice how the target marks are centered between the crop marks on each side.

Targets are centered between crop marks.

×24 picas (4"×4").

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

USING THE MARKS PANE

EXAMPLE 2

Color Bars and Gray Bars are now checked in addition to Targets and Crop Marks

in the Trim area. Note how the color and gray bars are placed underneath

the target marks. The target marks should always remain frontmost.

Color bars and gray bars are placed under target marks.

EXAMPLE 3

All the Plate Tags are checked — Project Name, Date & Time, and CMYK Tags

— and Notes are added. Note the placement for each.

Small text boxes display plate tags in 7-point Helvetica.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

THE PLACEMENT PANE

he Placement pane controls where marks are placed. Look here for information

T about how the controls in the

The Placement pane of the Item Marks dialog box.

THE POSITION AREA

The Position controls determine the position of the Quark Item Marks in relation to the selected items or page.

Placement pane work.

• The

Vertical ﬁeld speciﬁes the vertical position of the trim area on the page. Enter a value to specify how far from the top of the items or page the trim area should be placed. Or, choose area is placed ﬂush against the top edge of the page. If trim area is centered vertically on the page. If is placed ﬂush against the bottom of the page.

• The Horizontal ﬁeld speciﬁes the horizontal position of the trim area on the page. Enter a value to specify how far from the left edge of the page the trim area should be placed. Or, choose trim area is placed ﬂush against the left edge of the page. If the trim area is centered horizontally on the page. If area is placed ﬂush against the right edge of the page.

The Position settings can affect the maximum values for the Width and Height ﬁelds in the Crops pane’s Trim and Bleed areas.

THE LAYERS AREA

If you want to place marks on a speciﬁc layer (Window Þ Layers), choose it from the marks by entering a name in the ﬁeld.

CHAPTER 1: QUARK ITEM MARKS

Top, Center, or Bottom. If Top is selected, the trim

Center is selected, the

Bottom is selected, the trim area

Left, Center, or Right. If Left is selected, the

Center is selected,

Right is selected, the trim

Place Marks On drop-down menu. You can also create a layer for the

Chapter 2: Quark MarkIt

WHAT IT IS

Quark MarkIt lets you quickly and consistently add press marks — such as trim lines, registration targets, and color and gray bars — to QuarkXPress layouts during output. You can also customize Quark MarkIt by adding your own EPS marks.

WHAT QUARK MARKIT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS

Quark MarkIt XTensions software adds to QuarkXPress the MarkIt Styles dialog box (

Edit Þ MarkIt Styles) and the MarkIt pane to the Print Layout dialog box

File Þ Print).

(

• The MarkIt Styles dialog box lets you set up press marks, save them as Quark MarkIt styles, edit the styles, and import or export them.

Quark MarkIt pane in the Print Layout dialog box lets you select a

• The Quark MarkIt Style when printing a layout.

WHAT IT IS

The MarkIt pane in the Print Layout dialog box.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

WHAT IT IS

HOW IT WORKS

With Quark MarkIt, you deﬁne styles for the placement of a speciﬁc set of press marks using ( print (

File Þ Print Layout). Quark MarkIt Styles are saved with the XTensions

Edit Þ MarkIt Styles). You then apply the styles when you

module, so they are available to all your projects. Quark MarkIt applies the press marks for output only — it does not add items to the layout or alter the layout in any way.

THE MARKIT STYLES DIALOG BOX

A Quark MarkIt Style deﬁnes a particular set of press marks and their placement. To create or edit Quark MarkIt Styles, choose

MarkIt Styles dialog box.

Edit Þ MarkIt Styles to display the

The MarkIt Styles dialog box.

• This scrolling list displays the names of all available styles. To select a style for editing, duplicating, deleting, or exporting, click its name in the list to highlight it. To select multiple styles, Command+click/Ctrl+click the styles; to select a range of styles, Shift+click the ﬁrst and last style.

• To create or edit Quark MarkIt styles, click Edit or Duplicate.

• To share Quark MarkIt styles with other users, use the Import and Export buttons. You can export only selected styles. When you import styles, styles with names identical to existing styles will not be imported.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

New or select a style and click

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

he Edit MarkIt Styles dialog box displays when you click New, Edit, or

T Duplicate in the MarkIt Styles dialog box. To place press marks, drag them from the

Press Marks bar at left to the layout. Context menus let you customize the marks. For information about speciﬁc controls in the dialog box, look in this section.

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

Edit MarkIt Style

Dragging a color bar to the page in the Edit MarkIt Style dialog box.

THE NAME FIELD

Enter a descriptive name for the style in the Name ﬁeld. When printing, you can choose this name from the

Print Layout dialog box.

the

Style drop-down menu in the MarkIt pane of

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

THE REGISTRATION AREA FIELD

Enter a value in the Registration Area ﬁeld to specify the thickness of the registration area or trim margin that displays along each edge of the print area of the page. The value can be between 12 pt and 288 pt.

THE PAGE BLEED FIELD

Enter a value in the Page Bleed ﬁeld to deﬁne the bleed zone around the print area of the page. Trim lines and crop marks are offset this distance from the print area to allow for page bleed. The minimum value is 0 and the maximum value depends on the value in the Registration Area ﬁeld.

THE HORIZONTAL TRIM AND VERTICAL TRIM FIELDS

Enter values in the Horizontal Trim and Vertical Trim ﬁelds to deﬁne the size of the printed page. Values default to the page dimensions of the active QuarkXPress layout.

PREVIEW CONTROLS: PROXY, ZOOM FIELD, PAGE DROP-DOWN MENU

You can quickly display a particular area of the style’s page by clicking the corresponding point on this proxy.

The preview controls in the upper-right corner of the Edit MarkIt Style dialog box.

• Proxy: To display a speciﬁc area in the page preview, click the proxy page or drag the red square.

Zoom ﬁeld: Enter a value in the ﬁeld from 10% to 1200% to specify the

• magniﬁcation of the page preview. Click in another ﬁeld or press have Quark MarkIt accept the value and change the magniﬁcation.

• Page drop-down menu: If the layout page size matches the trim size, you can choose a speciﬁc page from the active layout to preview.

THE POSITION MARKS RELA

Check Position Marks Relative to T relative position of the marks when the QuarkXPress layout size does not match the style’ trim size. For precise mark placement, the trim size speciﬁ and the QuarkXPress layout page size should match.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

Tab to

TIVE TO TRIM CHECK BOX

rim

to allow Quark MarkIt to adjust the

s trim size. Uncheck this to lock the mark positions to the

ed in the style

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

THE PRESS MARKS BAR

The scroll list at left displays the press marks you can add to pages.

Displaying a context menu in the Press Marks bar.

• To place a mark, drag its icon from the Press Marks bar to the page preview. The values in the

X and Y ﬁelds below the page preview help

guide the placement.

When a press mark is added to a style, it is framed in the Press Marks bar.

Fixed press marks — trim lines and crop marks — can be turned on and

• off by clicking their icons in the

o select a mark to edit it, click it in the page preview

•

Press Marks bar.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

To automatically place marks, Control+click/right-click the mark and choose

• Auto Place from the context menu. See “Auto Place Dialog Box” later in this section.

• To remove a press mark from a style, Control+click/right-click the mark in the

Press Marks bar, and then choose Remove All from Style from the

context menu.

• To delete a press mark that you never use from the Control+click/right-click the mark, and then choose context menu.

A lock icon indicates the mark cannot be deleted. To lock or unlock a mark, Control+click/right-click the mark in the Setup from the context menu. The Lock check box in the Mark Setup dialog box lets you lock or unlock the mark.

• To access a context menu for editing a press mark, Control+click/right-click the mark. Choose

Delete, Remove All from Style, Setup, or Auto Place.

PAGE PREVIEW

The page preview displays all the marks you’ve added on a preview of the page selected in the

Page drop-down menu at the Zoom level speciﬁed. You can use

the preview area to select and reposition marks as follows:

Press Marks bar,

Delete from the

Press Marks bar, and then choose

• To select a mark, click it. The selected mark is outlined in red and its coordinates display in the

X and Y ﬁelds.

• To add copy of an existing mark, select it in the preview and Option+drag/ Alt+drag the mark to a new location.

• To move a mark, select it and drag it to a new location or enter new values in

X and Y ﬁelds. Or, double-click the mark to display the Offset From Page

the

Edge

dialog box and enter new values to indicate the distance from the Top,

Bottom, Left,

and Right edges of the trimmed page.

The Offset from Page Edge dialog box displays when you double-click a mark in the preview

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

To remove a mark, select it and press Delete. Or, Control+click/right-click the

• mark in the page preview and choose

To access a context menu for editing most press marks, Control+click/right-click

•

Remove from the context menu.

the mark. Choose Duplicate, Remove, Setup, or Offset.

The context menu that displays for press marks in the page preview.

• To increase the view scale in the page preview, click the zoom icon in the lower-right corner. To decrease the view scale, Option+click/Alt+click it.

• To access the

Zoom tool, press Control+Shift to increase the view scale and Control+Option/Ctrl+Alt to decrease the view scale. Click the page preview or drag to marquee an area to change its view scale.

• To get around within the page preview, use the scroll bars or press Command/Ctrl to access the page grabber hand. You can also use the proxy in the upper-right corner of the

Edit MarkIt Style dialog box.

THE IMPORT BUTTON

If you have custom press marks in EPS format, you can add them to the Press Marks

bar. Click Import to locate and select the EPS ﬁle. The mark is added

to the bottom of the

Press Marks bar.

THE X, Y FIELDS

The X value is the distance from the left trim edge of the page to the left edge of the mark’

s bounding box. Similarly

, the

Y value is the distance from the top trim edge to the top of the mark. The upper-left corner of the trim area is the 0, 0 point. The

X and Y ﬁ

page preview, and you can enter new values in the ﬁ

elds display coordinates as you drag marks to the

elds for selected marks.

THE REMOVE BUTTON

Click Remove to delete the selected press mark. This button is available only for unlocked marks.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX

ather than dragging multiple copies of a mark into position, you can use the

Auto Place dialog box to place marks. Control+click/right-click a mark in the Press Marks bar and choose Auto Place. Note that Auto Place is not available

for crop marks or trim lines.

•

Edge Offset: Enter a value in the ﬁeld to specify the distance between the trim and the nearest edge of the mark’s bounding box.

• Page Offset: Enter a value in the ﬁeld to specify how far to place the marks from the center of the page edges. A positive value moves marks clockwise; a negative value moves marks counterclockwise from the page edges.

Repeat Count: If you click Distribute in the Method area, you can specify how

• many copies of the mark to place. Enter a value in the ﬁeld.

Method: Click a button to specify where the marks should be placed as

• deﬁned below.

Apply To: Check the boxes to indicate which sides of the pages to place

• marks on.

The Auto Place dialog box.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

he Method options specify where the marks are to be placed.

enter: Marks are centered according to the Edge Offset value.

• C

•

Off Center: Marks are placed this distance from the page centerpoints.

Corners: Marks are placed in the corners of the sides selected in the

•

Apply To area.

Right of Corners and Left of Corners: The marks are offset in the speciﬁed

• direction (right is clockwise, left is counterclockwise) by the amount in the

Page Offset ﬁeld.

Distribute: The number of marks speciﬁed in the Repeat Count ﬁeld are

• distributed evenly along each selected side (if a mark is shifted accordingly).

THE SETUP DIALOG BOXES

To customize press marks, use the various setup dialog boxes. To open a mark’s respective setup dialog box, Control+click/right-click the mark in the Press Marks bar or the page preview and choose Setup. (You cannot display the context menu for crop marks or trim lines in the page preview; use the Press Marks bar.)

THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX

Page Offset is entered, each

If you change information in a “setup” dialog box before placing marks, those attributes become the new default attributes for the mark.

THE TRIM LINE OPTIONS DIALOG BOX

If you choose Setup for crop marks and trim lines, the Trim Line Options dialog box displays. Enter values in the

Weight and Length ﬁelds to specify the

thickness and length, respectively, of crop marks and trim lines.

rim Line Options

The T

dialog box (Setup for crop marks and trim lines).

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE SETUP DIALOG BOXES

THE TEXT SETUP DIALOG BOX

If you choose Setup for a text slug, the Text Setup dialog box displays. Check the information to include in the slug. To include additional information, such as a job number, check

The Text Setup dialog box (Setup for text slugs).

THE MARK SETUP DIALOG BOX

If you choose Setup for a target, color bar, or gray bar, the Mark Setup dialog box displays.

Print Spot Plates As: Click an option to specify how the mark is printed on

• spot-color plates: as a

Magenta,

Color Separate: Check this to color separate the mark.

•

Lock: Uncheck Lock to delete a mark from the Press Marks bar. Check Lock

• to make sure the mark remains in the Press Marks bar.

Other and enter the information in the ﬁeld.

Composite of the mark; as only the Black, Cyan,

or Yellow portion of the mark; or Skip the mark.

The Mark Setup dialog box (Setup for targets, color bars, and gray bars).

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

THE MARKIT PANE OF THE PRINT LAYOUT DIALOG BOX

nce you have created or imported Quark MarkIt styles, you can select a

O style from the

MarkIt pane of the Print Layout dialog box (File Þ Print).

• Style: Choose a style from the drop-down menu to print the speciﬁed press marks on each page of the layout. To print the layout without marks, choose

No Style.

• Knockout EPS Marks: Check this to have any custom, imported EPS press marks you used knock out of the background.

• Knockout Text Marks: Check this to have any text slugs in the style knock out of the background.

The MarkIt pane of the Print Layout dialog box (File Þ Print).

When printing spreads, marks intended for the left side of the page print on the left-facing page and marks intended for the right side of the page print on the right-facing page.

CHAPTER 2: QUARK MARKIT

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 3: Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress

Quark Imposer is XTensions software for QuarkXPress that imposes layout pages

into printer ﬂats. Quark Imposer offers three sheet types (2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up)

and ﬁve imposition types (Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web,

and Sheet Wise). To meet all your imposition needs, you can choose which

pages to impose and how many signatures to create, so you can use different

imposition methods for the same layout.

Quark Imposer compensates for bleed, creep, crossover trapping, page gaps,

spread gaps, and plate margins according to your speciﬁcations. Quark Imposer

also allows for the placement of custom marks when used in conjunction with

Quark MarkIt XTensions software.

A signiﬁcant beneﬁt of Quark Imposer is that it never affects the QuarkXPress

layout because the imposition is handled in the print stream. Quark Imposer

doesn’t add, shufﬂe, or rotate pages. You don’t need to worry about how

many pages are in the layout, the number or order of pages, or how the

layout is set up.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

OVERVIEW

1 With the layout to impose active, display the Imposer dialog box

(

2 Set up the imposition using the Layout and Preview panes of the Imposer

dialog box.

OVERVIEW

o use Quark Imposer, follow these steps:

File Þ Imposer).

The Layout pane in the Imposer dialog box.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

OVERVIEW

se the Preview pane to verify that your Layout settings will work for the

3 U

print job.

The Preview pane in the Imposer dialog box.

4 Add press marks by selecting a Quark MarkIt style (optional).

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

lick Print to specify further settings using the Imposer pane of the Print

5 C

Layout

dialog box.

OVERVIEW

The Imposer pane of the Print Layout dialog box.

Quark Imposer provides help in the form of Tooltips that display when you point at a control. In addition, an information area at the bottom of the Imposer dialog box summarizes all your settings so you can view them in both the Preview and Layout panes.

The information area at the bottom of the the Imposer dialog box.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

efore you set up printer ﬂats, you should work closely with the printer,

B bindery, and other vendors to conﬁrm that the imposition will work with their setup. The printer might, in fact, simply tell you how to set it up.

When setting up printer ﬂats, you’ll use a combination of controls in the Preview and Layout panes. Then, you’ll use the QuarkXPress Print Layout dialog box to print the pages.

Throughout this discussion, the term “printer ﬂat” refers to a collection of pages that will be imaged on a single sheet. The term “printer spreads” refers to two pages next to each other on a sheet of paper.

STEP 1: SPECIFYING A SHEET TYPE

The sheet type is the number of pages on each signature: two, four, or eight. The type of imposition you select in Quark Imposer — controls the types of imposition available.

• For

2-Up, Standard imposition is available.

4-Up, Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, and Sheet Wise

• For impositions are available.

8-Up, Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet

• For

Wise

impositions are available.

2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up —

To specify a sheet type, open the Imposer dialog box (File menu) and click the Layout tab. Then, click the 2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up tab.

The 2-Up, 4-Up, and 8-Up tabs let you select a sheet type, which determines the imposition types available.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

STEP 2: SPECIFYING AN IMPOSITION TYPE

Because the type of imposition interacts with the binding and determines which other options are available, it’s important to understand how each type functions.

Standard places the number of pages you specify for the sheet type on each

• ﬂat: Two for 4-Up Standard, an 8-page document yields two unique printer ﬂats, a 16-page document yields four unique printer ﬂats, and so on (provided that you choose Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound for the binding).

• Work & Turn places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages on each ﬂat, in which the printed press sheet is turned from left to right.

Bound

Work & Tumble places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages per ﬂat, in which the

• printed press sheet is tumbled top to bottom. binding yields unique printer spreads, which are then duplicated front and back.

Split Web, available only for 8-Up sheets, places eight pages on each ﬂat.

• Split Web allows you to impose a document over several forms when printing to a web press that can be conﬁgured to run multiple roll stands. In the ﬁeld, enter the number of roll stands to be conﬁgured. For example, entering 2 in the

Layout pane, you can toggle between the forms Quark Imposer prints.

Sheet Wise places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages on each ﬂat, but it creates

• different plates for each side of the press sheet. Use this option when printing full signatures that yield one signature out on a web press. When you choose Sheet Wise, the Units drop-down menu lets you choose how many units out to produce.

2-Up, four for 4-Up, or eight for 8-Up. For example, if you select

Saddle Stitch and Perfect

binding yields duplicate printer spreads.

Saddle Stitch and Perfect Bound

Sheets

Sheets ﬁeld imposes 2 forms that make up one 32-page signature. In the

To specify an imposition type:

1 In the Layout pane, conﬁrm the sheet type: 2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up.

2 Select General to display the Type drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Type drop-down menu.

The Type drop-down menu in the General area, which offers different imposition options depending on the sheet type.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

If you choose Sheet Wise, choose an option from the Units drop-down menu. If you choose

t the bottom of the Layout pane to view the different forms.

For Split Web imposition with multiple sheets, you can use the arrows at the bottom of the

STEP 3: SPECIFYING A BINDING TYPE

The type of binding you choose affects how the printer ﬂats are created:

• Choose Saddle Stitch if the pages will be stapled.

• Choose

• Choose bound. format copiers.

• Choose None if the pages will not be bound. None offsets any two (2-Up), four ( ﬁeld Preview pane.

Perfect Bound if the pages will be bound to the cover with adhesive.

Stacked if the pages will be three-hole punched, spiral bound, or comb

Stacked is similar to None, except it allows for multiple masters for large

4-Up), or eight (8-Up) pages from the ﬁrst page speciﬁed in the View

Split Web, enter a value in the Sheets ﬁeld and click the arrows

Layout pane to view the different forms.

Choosing Saddle Stitch, Perfect Bound, or Stacked enables the Sheets ﬁeld

General controls (Layout pane), which allows you to specify how many

in the signatures to create.

o specify a binding type:

1 In the Layout pane, conﬁrm the sheet and imposition type.

2 Select General to display the Binding drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Binding drop-down menu.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

The Binding drop-down menu in the General area.

STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES

Once you have the pages arranged, you can rearrange pages if necessary and decide whether pages need to be ﬂipped (head-to-head, for example).

• To ﬂip pages, click the the thumbnails to ﬂip them; in

Work & Tumble,

• To rearrange pages, click the

Page Flipping tool in the Layout pane. Click

4-Up Standard, 4-Up Work & Turn, or 4-Up

you can ﬂip the top and bottom sets of thumbnails separately.

Page Sequence Numbering tool in the

Layout pane. If you select None for the binding, click each thumbnail to

display a menu. The menu lets you arrange the pages any way you want. If you select

Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound, click a thumbnail to specify

the location of page 1. Page 1 must remain a right-facing page.

STEP 5: SPECIFYING BLEED

The value in the Bleed ﬁeld (Layout pane Þ General area) speciﬁes the amount of space used to allow page elements to print beyond the edge of the trimmed page. Enter a value between zero and the smallest margin. The value you enter

Bleed ﬁeld affects only the face of a printer ﬂat (the top, bottom, and

in the outside page edges). To control the bleed between pages for

Saddle Stitch or

Perfect Bound publications, refer to Crossover.

STEP 6: SPECIFYING CREEP

The value in the Creep ﬁeld (Layout pane Þ General area) speciﬁes the amount of space necessary to accommodate paper thickness and folding in

Stitch

or Perfect Bound publications. Enter a value between –2" and +2". For

Saddle

Saddle Stitch publications, the value speciﬁes the distance contents move.

Perfect Bound publications, the value speciﬁes the distance pages move

For relative to the spine.

The Bleed and Creep fields in the General area.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

HOW CREEP WORKS

Quark Imposer considers the “cover” of the ﬁnal piece to be the outermost printer ﬂat while the “centerfold” is considered to be the innermost printer ﬂat. The term “sheet” is used to represent two printer ﬂats — the front of the sheet and the back of the sheet. The “creep increment” is calculated by dividing the user-supplied creep value by the total number of sheets minus one.

For example, a 16-page QuarkXPress layout could yield eight printer ﬂats, or four sheets. The front of the ﬁrst sheet consists of the ﬁrst printer ﬂat (pages 16 and 1) while the back of the ﬁrst sheet consists of the second printer ﬂat (pages 2 and 15). For the sake of this discussion, if the user-supplied creep value was 24 pts (we realize this is an extreme) the creep increment is 8 pts per sheet (24 divided by 3).

The amount of creep applied to the outermost sheet is 24 pts, the amount of creep applied to the second sheet is 16 pts and the amount of creep applied to the third sheet is 8 pts. No creep applies to the fourth and innermost sheet. As our example illustrates, the amount of creep for each successive sheet was decreased by the creep increment.

In summary, each page on the outermost sheet is moved 12 pts (half of the 24 pt creep value for this sheet) away from the spine, each page on the second sheet is moved 8 pts (half of the 16 pt creep value for this sheet) away from the spine, each page on the third sheet is moved 4 pts (half of the 8 pt creep value for this sheet) away from the spine. Pages on the fourth and innermost sheet are not moved.

BINDING VALUE MOVEMENT

Perfect Positive # Page out

Perfect Negative # Page in

Saddle stitch Positive # Content out

Saddle stitch Negative # Content in

None n/a n/a

STEP 7: SPECIFYING CROSSOVER

The value in the Crossover ﬁeld (Layout pane Þ General area) speciﬁes the amount of space used to allow page elements to encroach the

Saddle Stitch or Per

fect Bound

between pages.) Enter a value between zero and half the vertical gap value.

STEP 8: SPECIFYING MARGINS

Values in the Margins area (select Margins in the Layout pane) specify the amount of space that will surround the actual printer ﬂat (after trimming). Enter values between 0 and 288 pts in the

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Gap in

publications. (Think of it as a bleed for in

Top, Left, Bottom, and Right ﬁelds.

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

The Margins area in the Layout pane.

STEP 9: SPECIFYING GAPS

Values in the Gaps area (select Gaps in the Layout pane) specify the amount of space to place between imposed pages and spreads. Enter values between 0 and 288 pts in the

Vertical, Horizontal, and Spread ﬁelds.

The Gaps area in the Layout pane.

• The Vertical ﬁeld represents the distance between the right side of the left page and the left side of the right page.

A vertical gap value is required if the ﬂat has a crossover. For

Perfect Bound

publications, if you are creeping in (with a negative value), the minimum vertical gap value is the width of the

Creep value. If you’re manually creating signatures (for example, if there are different stocks in the same publication), you can enter a value in the

Vertical ﬁeld to specify a starting creep for ﬂats

that belong to different signatures.

• The Horizontal ﬁeld represents the distance between the bottom of the upper printer spread and the top of the lower printer spread.

• A horizontal gap value is not available for 2-Up ﬂats but is required for 4-Up ﬂats that bleed.

Spread ﬁeld, available for 8-Up ﬂats only, represents the vertical space

• The between the two sets of printer spreads.

In the Layout pane, arrows show the location affected by the active field (the

Spread field).

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

STEP 10: SPECIFYING REGISTRATION MARKS

Quark Imposer lets you print documents without registration marks, with standard registration marks, and with custom registration marks from Quark MarkIt XTensions software (included with Quark Print Collection). To specify registration marks, choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu in the

The Registration drop-down menu in the Preview pane.

• Choose Off to print without registration marks.

• Choose

Center or Off Center to print Quark Imposer’s default marks, which include four targets, trim marks, bleed marks, fold lines, a text slug, a gray bar, and color bar (when printing separations).

Preview pane.

The position of the registration marks is controlled by the value you enter in the Bleed ﬁeld in the General area of the Layout pane.

• If Quark MarkIt XTensions software is running, you can choose one of its registration styles. The Quark MarkIt styles are listed after the default options. You can also click the

MarkIt button in the lower-left corner of the Imposer

dialog box to create and edit Quark MarkIt styles.

STEP 11: PRINTING WITH QUARK IMPOSER

Printing with Quark Imposer differs slightly from printing with the standard QuarkXPress controls. For example, the QuarkXPress controls in it because you specify registration in the

Marks pane has no

Preview pane of the

Imposer dialog box.

o print with Quark Imposer:

1 Choose File Þ Imposer

then conﬁ

rm all the settings in the

Preview and

Layout panes of the Imposer dialog box.

2 Click Print in the Imposer dialog box. This displays the QuarkXPress Print

Layout

dialog box.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

pecify which ﬂats to print in the Pages area. Specify All to print all the printer

3 S

ﬂats. (The ﬂat numbers are displayed in the lower-left corner of the

Preview pane.)

Flat drop-down menu in the

4 Choose which printer ﬂats to print from the Sequence drop-down menu:

All, Odd, or Even.

5 If you plan to ﬂip the pages, check Flip Back of Sheets in the Imposer pane.

The Imposer pane of the Print Layout dialog box.

6 In the Pages pane, check Include Blank Pages to print any blank ﬂats added

by Quark Imposer to complete the imposition. In most cases, you will want to check this. (Blank pages in your QuarkXPress document will print regardless of this setting.)

7 If you need to set tiling, see the next section “Tiling with Quark Imposer.”

8 Specify all the standard QuarkXPress options as you normally would.

9 Conﬁrm all the settings in the Print Layout dialog box, then click Print.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

TILING WITH QUARK IMPOSER

f your document page size is larger than the paper you’re printing on, you can

I print the imposed pages in tiles. To do this:

1 Click the Imposer tab in the Print Layout dialog box.

The Tiling controls in the Imposer pane.

2 To activate tiling, select Manual or Automatic.

• If you select Manual, you can specify an X Offset (vertical) and Y Offset (horizontal). The values are limited by the paper height and width, respectively, minus the margins.

• If you select Automatic, you can specify an Overlap value. This value is limited by the paper size.

3 When printing to a ﬁxed-page device, such as a desktop laser printer, click the

Page Setup button to conﬁ

4 Set the other printing options as you normally would when using Quark

Imposer, then click

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Print.

rm that the speciﬁed paper size is the same size.

CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS

ou are not limited to a single imposition type within a layout. You can choose

Y which pages to impose a certain way, print those, and then impose and print the remaining pages separately. For example, you might need to print the covers of a document separately.

The

Preview pane provides these controls in the View area:

• All: Select this option to print all pages in the document.

Range: Select this option to specify a range of pages to print from the layout.

•

Only absolute numbers can be entered into the Range ﬁeld. Any sections that have been speciﬁed in your QuarkXPress layout must be converted to their actual page count equivalent.

Keep in mind that comma delimiters signify single pages, while hyphens signify page ranges. For example, entering 1, 4, 7, 10–14 in the eight pages: 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS

Range ﬁeld yields

Using the custom imposition settings in the Preview pane.

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

The Preview pane of the Imposer dialog box lets you conﬁrm the settings you make in the

Layout pane. For example, you can see how the pages are rotated

and you can check the bleed amount.

To open the

Imposer dialog box, choose File Þ Imposer. To switch between the

Preview and Layout panes, click the tabs. Use the resize box in the lower-right

corner to increase the previewing area.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

NAVIGATING PAGES IN THE PREVIEW

You can navigate through the previews using the scroll bar or using keyboard commands.

FLAT SCROLL BAR KEYBOARD

First n/a Home

Last n/a End

Next Click right arrow Right arrow

Previous Click left arrow Left arrow

Back several Click left side Page down

Forward several Click right side Page up

Any Drag scroll box n/a

To preview a speciﬁc printer ﬂat, choose one from the

Flat drop-down menu

next to the scroll bar.

The Flat drop-down menu in the Preview pane.

DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING PAGE IN QUARKXPRESS

To see the QuarkXPress page that corresponds with a preview, double-click that page in the page preview. QuarkXPress displays the page in the active project window.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

DISPLAYING GUIDES, BLEEDS, AND PAGE NUMBERS

Settings in the Preview Options dialog box control whether page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers display in the previews by default. While previewing ﬂats, you can quickly hide and display these visual aids using the context menu.

To change these options, Control+click/right-click anywhere in the

Preview

pane to display the context menu.

The context menu for displaying guides and page numbers.

1 Choose a color depth for the previews from the menu. Although all the

options are available, the preview is limited to the number of colors your monitor can display.

The more colors you choose to display, the more memory the XTensions software requires. The

Black & White option requires the least amount of

memory, while Millions of Colors requires the greatest.

2 Use the check boxes in the Preview area to determine whether page guides,

bleed guides, and page numbers display by default. Regardless of your preference settings, you can use the context menu to toggle these on and off while previewing printer ﬂats.

• Check Page Guides to display nonprinting lines that frame the trim area of each page.

• Check Bleed Guides to display nonprinting lines indicating the extent of the bleed area of each page.

Check

•

Page Numbers to display the “section” page number of each page. Section page numbers are assigned through the QuarkXPress box (

Page menu).

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Section dialog

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

The Preview pane with page guides, bleed guides and page numbers displayed.

3 Use the buttons in the Color area to customize the color of the page guides,

the bleed guides, and the page number swatches.

4 When you’ve ﬁnished modifying these options, click OK to save your changes.

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

Once you set up an imposition for a document, you can save it as a style. All the styles you create are saved with the Quark Imposer XTensions software and are available to all your projects; you can import and export styles to share them with other Quark Imposer users.

The Style menu in the Layout pane lets you create, edit, and choose styles. Another

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Style menu in the Preview pane lets you choose a style as well.

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

STANDARD STYLE

Quark Imposer comes with a default imposition style called Standard. If Standard or any other style is italicized, it means you have overridden its

settings with your own settings. If you’re setting up an imposition for a onetime use, you can continue working this way. Otherwise, either edit to include your own settings or create a style.

CREATING A STYLE

To create an imposition style from the current settings in the Preview and Layout panes:

Standard

1 Choose Add from the Style menu in the upper-left corner of the Preview or

Layout pane.

2 Enter a name for the style in the Name ﬁeld and click OK.

3 Your new style is automatically selected. Any changes you make to the current

setup from this point on override the style unless you update the style.

CHOOSING A STYLE

To select an imposition style for the current document, choose a style from the Style menu.

The Style menu in the Layout pane.

UPDATING A STYLE

If you choose a style, then continue to modify the setup, you can update the style itself to reﬂect your changes. To do this, choose Style menu. The style is updated to reﬂect the current settings.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Update from the

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

EDITING THE STYLE LIST

Once you’ve created a variety of styles, you might need to start renaming or deleting some of the styles. To do this:

1 Choose Edit from the Style menu in the upper-left corner of the Preview or

Layout pane.

The Imposer Styles dialog box.

2 To delete a style, select it and click Delete. Shift+click to select contiguous styles;

Command+click/Ctrl+click to select noncontinuous styles.

3 To rename a style, select it and click Rename. Enter a new name in the Name

ﬁeld and click OK.

4 When you ﬁnish editing the list of styles, click Save.

SHARING STYLES WITH OTHER USERS

You and other Quark Imposer users can share styles by importing and exporting them. To do this, use the dialog box. To select speciﬁc styles to export, Shift+click to select contiguous styles; Command+click/Ctrl+click to select noncontinuous styles.

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

To use Quark Imposer effectively, you need to fully understand the types of imposition it offers. This section provides real-world examples of the imposition types in action.

SADDLE-STITCH SCENARIO

Let’s say you’re creating printer spreads for a 16-page layout. In the Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Saddle Stitch from the Binding drop-down menu in the

General area. Specify any necessary values (for example in the

Import and Export buttons in the Imposer Styles

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

argins, Gaps, orBleed ﬁelds), then click the Preview tab. To print all the

pages in the document, select

All. Choose an option from the Registration

drop-down menu, then click Print. This setup prints eight 2-page printer ﬂats.

Now, let’s say the printer requests a four-up conﬁguration for the same layout. All you do is click the

4-Up tab in the Layout pane and leave the Type set at

Standard. All the other settings remain the same. (If you speciﬁed a Bleed value,

the

Horizontal ﬁeld (Gap area) is automatically set to twice the Bleed value.)

This setup prints four 4-page printer ﬂats.

PERFECT-BOUND SCENARIO

Let’s say your layout is 116 pages (including the front and back covers) in readerspread format. This job might require two print runs, one for the cover and one for the guts.

• Cover output: In the

Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Perfect Bound from the Binding drop-down menu in the General area. To compensate for the spine, enter a value in the ﬁelds as necessary, then click the

Horizontal ﬁeld (Gap area). Enter values in the other

Preview tab. Enter 1, 2, 115, 116 in the Range ﬁeld. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then click Print. This setup prints the ﬁrst two printer ﬂats.

• Guts output: In the printer spreads, click the

Margins, Gaps, or Bleed ﬁelds), noting that the horizontal gap setting for

the the spine is no longer necessary. Click the

Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab (if your printer requests

2-Up tab). Specify any necessary values (for example in

Preview tab and enter 3–114 in the

Range ﬁeld. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then

click

Print. This setup prints the remainder of the document in 4-up ﬂats.

Because there are 112 pages of guts to impose in eight-page signatures, and 112÷8=14, this setup prints 14 signatures. (Quark Imposer would allow you to create 15 signatures from this document if it included the covers.)

STACKED SCENARIO

The Stacked binding option is ideal for documents reproduced on large format copiers such as a DocuTech, which cuts and collates as it prints. Say you’re printing a 40-page book on a DocuTech to be spiral bound. First, in the

Layout

pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Stacked from the Binding drop-down menu (

General area). In the Sheets ﬁeld, enter 10. Specify any necessary values

Bleed, Margins, and V

for disabled for

Stacked binding.

ertical ﬁeld (

Gap area). Creep and Crossover are

Then, click the Preview tab. To print all the pages in the document, select All. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then click Print. This setup prints 10 four-page sheets. The 10 sheets are then cut to size and stacked on top of each other to form a 40-page publication ready for binding.

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

WORK & TURN SCENARIO

Let’s say you’ve got a four-page brochure and the printer is planning to print this 4-up as a work-and-turn job and has requested composed ﬂats. In the Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab, choose Work & Turn from the Type drop-down menu and either

General area). Enter values in the other ﬁelds as necessary, then click

menu ( the

Preview tab. Enter 1–4 in the Range ﬁeld. Choose an option from the

Registration drop-down menu, then click Print.

WORK & TUMBLE SCENARIO

Using the same example as work-and-turn, let’s say the printer requests ﬁlm for a work-and-tumble job. The only change you need to make is to choose

Work & Tumble from the Type drop-down menu in the Layout pane. Because Work & Tumble prints two ﬂats with the same contents, you only need to

print both ﬂats if the printer requests two sets of ﬁlm.

SPLIT WEB SCENARIO

In this example, say you’re printing a 16-page book to a web press with two roll stands. Each press unit prints an 8-page signature. Both rolls are printed at the same time and collated in line to be ﬁnal folded into a 16-page stapled book. In the Layout pane, click the 8-Up tab and then choose Split Web from the

Type drop-down menu (Units defaults to 2 Out), choose Saddle Stitch

from the Binding drop-down menu (General area). Proceed as usual.

Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound from the Binding drop-down

CHAPTER 3: QUARK IMPOSER FOR QUARKXPRESS

Chapter 4: Quark Imposer for Acrobat

Quark Imposer is a plug-in for Adobe®Acrobat®Professional that creates a new

PDF from your original, multi-page PDF ﬁle, imposing its pages into printer

ﬂats. Quark Imposer for Acrobat offers three sheet types (2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up)

and ﬁve imposition types (Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web,

and Sheet Wise). To meet all your imposition needs, you can choose which

pages to impose and how many signatures to create, so you can use different

imposition methods for the same PDF ﬁle.

Quark Imposer compensates for bleed, creep, crossover trapping, page gaps,

spread gaps, and plate margins according to your speciﬁcations.

INTRODUCTION

The plug-in never affects the layout of your PDF ﬁle because the imposition is

done in a completely new document, with no further compression performed.

Quark Imposer doesn’t add, shufﬂe, or rotate pages. You don’t need to worry

about how many pages are in the ﬁle or how the ﬁle is set up.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

INTRODUCTION

1 O

2 Display the Imposer dialog box (File Þ Imposer).

3 Set up the imposition using the Layout and Preview panes of the Imposer

o use Quark Imposer, follow these steps:

pen the Acrobat PDF ﬁle to impose.

dialog box.

The Layout pane in the Imposer dialog box.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

INTRODUCTION

se the Preview pane to verify that your Layout settings will work for the job.

4 U

The Preview pane in the Imposer dialog box.

5 Click Create to produce a new PDF ﬁle with imposed printer ﬂats displaying

printer’s marks and information about each ﬂat.

The information area at the bottom of the the Imposer dialog box.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

efore you set up printer ﬂats, you should work closely with the printer,

B bindery, and other vendors to conﬁrm that the imposition will work with their setup. The printer might, in fact, simply tell you how to set it up.

When setting up printer ﬂats, you’ll use a combination of controls in the Preview and Layout panes. Then, you’ll click the Create button to produce a new PDF document containing each printer ﬂat on separate pages.

Throughout this discussion, the term “printer ﬂat” refers to a collection of pages that will be imaged on one side of a single sheet. The term “printer spreads” refers to two pages next to each other on a sheet of paper.

STEP 1: SPECIFYING A SHEET TYPE

The sheet type is the number of pages on each printer ﬂat (each side of a sheet): two, four, or eight. The type of imposition you select in Quark Imposer —

4-Up,

or 8-Up — controls the types of imposition available.

• For 2-Up, Standard imposition is available.

4-Up, Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, and Sheet Wise

• For impositions are available.

8-Up, Standard, Work & Turn, Work & Tumble, Split Web, and Sheet

• For

Wise

impositions are available.

2-Up,

To specify a sheet type, open the Imposer dialog box and click the Layout tab. Then, click the

2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up tab.

STEP 2: SPECIFYING AN IMPOSITION TYPE

Because the type of imposition interacts with the binding and determines which other options are available, it’s important to understand how each type functions.

Standard places the number of pages you specify for the sheet type on each

• ﬂat: Two for

2-Up, four for 4-Up, or eight for 8-Up. For example, if you select

4-Up Standard, an eight-page document yields two unique printer ﬂats, a

-page document yields four unique printer ﬂats, and so on (provided that

16 you choose

Work & Turn places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages on each ﬂat, in which

•

Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound for the binding).

the printed press sheet is turned from left to right.

Bound

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

binding yields duplicate printer spreads.

Saddle Stitch and Perfect

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

ork & Tumble places four (4-Up)or eight (8-Up)pages per ﬂat, in which the

• W printed press sheet is tumbled top to bottom.

Saddle Stitch and Perfect Bound

binding yields unique printer spreads, which are then duplicated front and back.

Split Web, available only for 8-Up sheets, places eight pages on each ﬂat. Split

•

Web

allows you to impose a document over several forms when printing to a

web press that can be conﬁgured to run multiple roll stands. In the

Sheets ﬁeld,

enter the number of roll stands to be conﬁgured. For example, entering 2 in the

Sheets ﬁeld will impose 2 forms that make up one 32-page signature. In the Layout pane, you can toggle between the forms Quark Imposer creates.

Sheet Wise places four (4-Up) or eight (8-Up) pages on each ﬂat, but it creates

To specify an imposition type:

1 In the Layout pane, conﬁrm the sheet type: 2-Up, 4-Up, or 8-Up.

2 Select General to display the Type drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Type drop-down menu.

The Type drop-down menu in the General area.

If you choose Sheet Wise, choose an option from the Units drop-down menu. If you choose

Split Web, enter a value in the Sheets ﬁeld and click the arrows

at the bottom of the Layout pane to view the different forms.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

For Split Web imposition with multiple sheets, you can use the arrows at the bottom of the

STEP 3: SPECIFYING A BINDING TYPE

The type of binding you choose affects how the printer ﬂats are created:

• Choose Saddle Stitch if the pages will be stapled.

• Choose

• Choose bound.

Perfect Bound if the pages will be bound to the cover with adhesive.

Stacked if the pages will be three-hole punched, spiral bound, or comb

Stacked is similar to None, except it allows for multiple masters for

large format copiers.

• Choose None if the pages will not be bound. None offsets any two (2-Up), four (

4-Up), or eight (8-Up) pages from the ﬁrst page speciﬁed in the Preview pane.

Layout pane to view the different forms.

Choosing Saddle Stitch, Perfect Bound, or Stacked enables the Sheet ﬁeld in the Preview pane, which allows you to specify how many signatures to create.

To specify a binding type:

1 In the Layout pane, conﬁrm the sheet and imposition type.

2 Select General to display the Binding drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Binding drop-down menu.

The Binding drop-down menu in the General area.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES

Once you have the pages arranged, you can rearrange pages if necessary and decide whether pages need to be ﬂipped (head-to-head, for example).

• To ﬂip pages, click the thumbnails to ﬂip them; in

Work & Tumble,

• To rearrange pages, click the

Page Flipping tool in the Layout pane. Click the

4-Up Standard, 4-Up Work & Turn, or 4-Up

you can ﬂip the top and bottom sets of thumbnails separately.

Page Sequence Numbering tool in the Layout pane. If you select None for the binding, click each thumbnail to display a menu. The menu lets you arrange the pages in any way necessary for the job. If you select

Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound, click a thumbnail to specify the

location of page 1. Page 1 must remain a right-facing page.

STEP 5: SPECIFYING BLEED

Bleed ﬁeld affects only the face of a printer ﬂat (the top, bottom, and

outside page edges). To control the bleed between pages for

Saddle Stitch or

Perfect Bound publications, refer to Crossover.

STEP 6: SPECIFYING CREEP

The value in the Creep ﬁeld (Layout pane Þ General area) speciﬁes the amount of space necessary to accommodate paper thickness and folding in

Stitch

or Perfect Bound publications. Enter a value between –144 pt and 144 pt.

Saddle Stitch publications, the value speciﬁes the distance contents move.

For For

Perfect Bound publications, the value speciﬁes the distance pages move

Saddle

relative to the spine.

The Bleed and Creep fields in the General area.

HOW CREEP WORKS

Quark Imposer considers the “cover” of the ﬁnal piece to be the outermost printer ﬂ

at while the “centerfold” is considered to be the innermost printer ﬂat. The term “sheet” is used to represent two printer ﬂats — the front of the sheet and the back of the sheet. The “creep increment” is calculated by dividing the user-supplied creep value by the total number of sheets minus one.

For example, a 16-page PDF ﬁle could yield eight printer ﬂats, or four sheets. The front of the ﬁrst sheet consists of the ﬁrst printer ﬂat (pages 16 and 1) while the back of the ﬁrst sheet consists of the second printer ﬂat (pages 2 and 15). For the sake of this discussion, if the user-supplied creep value was 24 pts (we realize this is an extreme) the creep increment is 8 pts per sheet (24 divided by 3).

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

he amount of creep applied to the outermost sheet is 24 pts, the amount of

T creep applied to the second sheet is 16 pts and the amount of creep applied to the third sheet is 8 pts. No creep applies to the fourth and innermost sheet. As our example illustrates, the amount of creep for each successive sheet was decreased by the creep increment.

BINDING VALUE MOVEMENT

Perfect Positive # Page out

Perfect Negative # Page in

Saddle stitch Positive # Content out

Saddle stitch Negative # Content in

None n/a n/a

STEP 7: SPECIFYING CROSSOVER

The value in the Crossover ﬁeld (Layout pane Þ General area) speciﬁes the amount of space used to allow page elements to encroach the

Stitch

or Perfect Bound publications. (Think of it as a bleed for in between

pages.) Enter a value between zero and half the

Gap in Saddle

Vertical Gap value.

STEP 8: SPECIFYING MARGINS

Values in the Margins area (select Margins in the Layout pane) specify the amount of space to surround the trim size of the printer ﬂat. Enter values between 0 and 288 pts in the

The Margins area in the Layout pane.

STEP 9: SPECIFYING GAPS

Values in the Gaps area (select Gaps in the Layout pane) specify the amount of space to place between imposed pages and spreads. Enter values between 0 and 288 pts in the

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

Top, Left, Bottom, and Right ﬁelds.

Vertical, Horizontal, and Spread ﬁelds.

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

The Gaps area in the Layout pane.

• The Vertical ﬁeld represents the distance between the right side of the left page and the left side of the right page.

A Vertical gap value is required if the ﬂat has a crossover. For Perfect Bound publications, if you are creeping in (with a negative value), the minimum Vertical gap value is the width of the Creep value. If you’re manually creating signatures (for example, if there are different stocks in the same publication), you can enter a value in the

Vertical ﬁeld to specify a starting creep for ﬂats

that belong to different signatures.

Horizontal ﬁeld represents the distance between the bottom of the upper

• The printer spread and the top of the lower printer spread.

• A Horizontal gap value is not available for 2-Up ﬂats but is required for 4-Up ﬂats that bleed.

Spread ﬁeld, available for 8-Up ﬂats only, represents the vertical space

• The between the two sets of printer spreads.

STEP 10: SPECIFYING REGISTRATION MARKS

Quark Imposer lets you create new PDF ﬁles without registration marks (if the supplied PDF ﬁle has its own registration marks) or with standard registration marks.

1 In the Imposer dialog box, click the Preview tab.

2 Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu.

The Registration drop-down menu in the Preview pane.

Choose

•

Choose

•

Off to create a PDF without registration marks.

Center or Off Center to create a PDF using Quark Imposer’s default

marks, which include four targets, trim marks, bleed marks, fold lines, a text slug, a gray bar, and color bar (when printing separations).

The position of the registration marks is controlled by the value you enter in the Bleed ﬁ

eld in the

Layout pane.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

STEP 11: CREATING AN IMPOSED PDF FILE WITH QUARK IMPOSER

Quark Imposer for Adobe Acrobat Professional creates a new PDF ﬁle with imposed printer ﬂats from a regular multi-page PDF ﬁle.

To create an imposed PDF with Quark Imposer:

1 Choose File Þ Imposer, then conﬁrm all the settings in the Preview and

Layout panes of the Imposer dialog box.

2 Click Create in the Imposer dialog box or press Return/Enter.

Quark Imposer for Adobe Acrobat places each set of printer’s marks on a separate layer in the ﬁnal PDF ﬁle. These layers can be accessed by clicking the in Acrobat and can be turned on or off, giving you complete control over which marks print.

CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS

You are not limited to a single imposition type within a document. You can choose which pages to impose a certain way, create a PDF ﬁle from those, then impose and create a second PDF ﬁle containing the remaining pages. For example, the cover pages of a document might need to be in a different PDF ﬁle than the interior pages.

Layers tab

The

Preview pane provides these controls:

• All: Select this option to create an imposed PDF containing all pages from the original multi-page PDF ﬁle.

Range: Select this option to specify a range of pages to impose from the

• original PDF ﬁle.

Keep in mind that comma delimiters signify single pages, while hyphens signify page ranges. For example, entering 1, 4, 7, 10–14 in the pages: 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Using the custom imposition setting in the Pr

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

Range ﬁeld yields eight

eview

pane.

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

he Preview pane of the Imposer dialog box lets you conﬁrm the settings

T you make in the

Layout pane. For example, you can see how the pages are

rotated and you can check the bleed amount.

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

To open the

Imposer dialog box, choose File Þ Imposer. To switch between the

Preview and Layout panes, click the tabs. Use the resize box in the lower-right

corner to increase the previewing area.

NAVIGATING PAGES IN THE PREVIEW

You can navigate through the previews using the scroll bar or using keyboard commands.

FLAT SCROLL BAR KEYBOARD

First n/a Home

Last n/a End

Next Click right arrow Right arrow

Previous Click left arrow Left arrow

Back several Click left side Page down

Forward several Click right side Page up

Any Drag scroll box n/a

To preview a speciﬁc printer ﬂat, choose one from the

Flat drop-down menu

next to the scroll bar.

The Flat drop-down menu in the Preview pane.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING PAGE IN THE PDF

To see the PDF page that corresponds with a preview, double-click that page in the page preview. Acrobat displays the page in the document window.

DISPLAYING GUIDES, BLEEDS, AND PAGE NUMBERS

The context menu for displaying guides and page numbers.

Use the check boxes in the Preview area to determine whether page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers display by default. Regardless of your preference settings, you can use the context menu to toggle these on and off while previewing printer ﬂats.

• Check

Page Guides to display lines that frame the trim area of each page.

Bleed Guides to display lines indicating the extent of the bleed area

of each page.

• Check

Page Numbers to display the page number of each page.

The guides and page numbers do not display in the resulting PDF ﬁle.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

The Preview pane with page guides, bleed guides, and page numbers displayed.

Use the buttons in the Color area to customize the color of the page guides, the bleed guides, and the page number swatches.

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

Once you set up an imposition for a document, you can save it as an “imposition style.” All the styles you create are saved with the Quark Imposer plug-in and are available to all your documents; you can import and export styles to share them with other Quark Imposer users.

The Style drop-down menu in the Layout pane lets you create, edit, and choose styles. Another

Style drop-down menu in the Preview pane lets you choose

a style as well.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

STANDARD STYLE

Quark Imposer comes with a default imposition style called Standard. If Standard or any other style is italicized, it means you have overridden its settings with your own settings. If you’re setting up an imposition for a onetime use, you can continue working this way. Otherwise, either edit to include your own settings or create a style.

CREATING A STYLE

To create an imposition style from the current settings in the Preview and Layout panes:

1 Click the Layout tab, and then choose Add from the Style menu in the

upper-left corner.

2 Enter a name for the style in the Name ﬁeld and click OK.

3 Your new style is automatically selected. Any changes you make to the current

setup from this point on override the style unless you update the style.

CHOOSING A STYLE

To select an imposition style for the current document, choose a style from the

Style drop-down menu.

Standard

The Style drop-down menu in the Layout pane.

UPDATING A STYLE

If you choose a style, then continue to modify the setup, you can update the style itself to reﬂ

ect your changes. T

drop-down menu. The style is updated to reﬂect the current settings.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

o do this, choose

Update from the Style

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

EDITING THE STYLE LIST

Once you create a variety of styles, you might need to start renaming or deleting some of the styles. To do this:

1 Choose Edit from the Style drop-down menu in the upper-left corner of the

Preview or Layout pane.

The Imposer Styles dialog box.

2 To delete a style, select it and click Delete. Shift+click to select contiguous styles;

Command+click/Ctrl+click to select noncontinuous styles.

3 To rename a style, select it and click Rename. Enter a new name in the Name

ﬁeld and click OK.

4 When you ﬁnish editing the list of styles, click Save.

SHARING STYLES WITH OTHER USERS

HANDLING PDFS WITH BLEED INCLUDED

When handling a print job that includes bleeds, you must prepare PDFs in

certain fashion prior to imposing the document with Quark Imposer for

a Adobe Acrobat Professional:

Import and Export buttons in the Imposer Styles

1 Be sure to export (or have the client export) the PDF with a symmetrical bleed.

No registration marks are necessar

Bleed T

Set the

2 Open the PDF ﬁ

Crop Pages.

ype

to Symmetric, and the Amount to an appropriate number

le in Adobe Acrobat Professional and choose

y because these are created by Quark Imposer

. .

Document Þ

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

HANDLING PDFS WITH BLEED INCLUDED

nter the bleed amount (from step 1) into each of the ﬁelds: Top, Bottom,

3 E

Left,

and Right.

4 Under Page Range, click All to assure all pages are cropped, and choose Even

and Odd Pages from the Apply to drop-down menu below it.

5 Click OK, and the PDF should now be cropped to the ﬁnal trim size. Using

Quark Imposer at this point yields the expected results.

No information is discarded when you crop a page from within Adobe Acrobat Professional — cropping controls only the on-screen viewable area.

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

To use Quark Imposer effectively, you need to fully understand the types of imposition it offers. This section provides a real-world example of the imposition types in action.

SADDLE-STITCH SCENARIO

Let’s say you’re creating printer spreads for a 16-page document. In the Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Saddle Stitch from the Binding drop-down menu. Specify any necessary values (for example, in the Margins,

Gaps,

or Bleed ﬁelds), then click the Preview tab. To create a new, imposed PDF containing all the pages from the original document, click an option from the

Registration drop-down menu, then click Create. This

setup creates a new PDF ﬁle containing eight 2-page printer ﬂats.

All. Choose

Now, let’s say the printer requests a four-up conﬁguration for the same document. All you do is click the the

Type set at Standard. All the other settings remain the same. If you speciﬁed a set to twice the

Bleed value, the Horizontal ﬁeld (Gap area) is automatically

Bleed value.) This setup prints four 4-page printer ﬂats.

PERFECT-BOUND SCENARIO

Let’s say your document is 116 pages (including the front and back covers). This job might require two print runs, one for the cover and one for the guts.

• Cover output: In the from the Binding drop-down menu. To compensate for the spine, enter a value in the

Horizontal ﬁ then click the option from the creates a new

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

Preview tab. Enter 1, 2, 115, 116 in the Range ﬁeld. Choose an

Registration drop-down menu, then click Create. This setup

, imposed PDF ﬁ

4-Up tab in the Layout pane and leave

Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Perfect Bound

eld (

Gap area). Enter values in the other ﬁelds as necessar

le containing the ﬁ

rst two printer ﬂats.

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

Guts output: In the Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab (if your printer requests

• printer spreads, click the in the

Margins, Gaps, or Bleed ﬁelds), noting that the horizontal gap setting for the spine is no longer necessary. Click the the

Range ﬁeld. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu,

then click

Create. This setup creates a new, imposed PDF ﬁle containing the

2-Up tab). Specify any necessary values (for example,

Preview tab and enter 3–114 in

remainder of the document in 4-up ﬂats.

Because there are 112 pages of guts to impose in eight-page sheets, and 112÷8=14, this setup prints 14 sheets. (Quark Imposer would allow you to create imposed PDFs for 15 sheets from this document if it included the covers.)

STACKED SCENARIO

The Stacked binding option is ideal for documents to be reproduced on a largeformat copier such as a DocuTech, which cuts and collates as it prints. Say you’re creating an imposed PDF ﬁle for a 40-page book (from a 40-page PDF ﬁle) which will be printed on a DocuTech to be spiral bound. First, in the Layout pane, click the 2-Up tab and choose Stacked from the Binding drop-down menu (

General area). In the Sheets ﬁeld, enter 10. Specify any necessary values

Bleed, Margins, and Vertical ﬁelds (Gap area). Creep and Crossover are

in the disabled for

Stacked binding.

Then, click the Preview tab. To use all the pages in the document, click All. Choose an option from the Registration drop-down menu, then click Create. This setup creates a new, imposed PDF ﬁle containing 10 four-page sheets. The PDF ﬁle can now be printed to the large-format copier, and the sheets then cut to size and stacked on top of each other to form a 40-page publication, ready for binding.

WORK & TURN SCENARIO

Let’s say you have a PDF ﬁle for a four-page brochure. The printer is planning to print this 4-up as a work-and-turn job and has requested a PDF containing composed ﬂats. In the

Layout pane, click the 4-Up tab, choose Work & Turn from the Type drop-down menu and either Saddle Stitch or Perfect Bound from the Binding drop-down menu (General area). Enter values in the other ﬁelds as necessary, then click the Choose an option from the

Preview tab. Enter 1–4 in the Range ﬁeld.

Registration drop-down menu, then click Create.

WORK & TUMBLE SCENARIO

Using the same example as work-and-turn, let’s say the printer requests ﬁlm for a work-and-tumble job. The only change you need to make is to choose

Work & Tumble from the Type drop-down menu in the Layout pane. Since Work & Tumble creates two ﬂats with the same contents, you only need to

create a new PDF ﬁle of one of the ﬂats.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS

SPLIT WEB SCENARIO

In this example, say you’re creating an imposed PDF ﬁle for a 16-page book which will be printed to a web press with two roll stands. Each press unit prints an 8-page signature. Both rolls are printed at the same time and collated in line to be ﬁnal folded into a 16-page stapled book. In the Layout pane, click the (

Units defaults to 2 out), choose Saddle Stitch from the Binding drop-down

menu (

8-Up tab and then choose Split Web from the Type drop-down menu

General area). Proceed as usual.

CHAPTER 4: QUARK IMPOSER FOR ACROBA

Quark Print Collection - 1.1 Operation Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WHAT IT IS

WHAT IT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS

HOW IT WORKS

THE CROPS PANE

THE TRIM AREA

THE BLEED AREA

THE SAFETY AREA

CROP MARKS, GUIDES, AND ARROWS CHECK BOXES

USING THE CROPS PANE

EXAMPLE 1

EXAMPLE 2

EXAMPLE 3

EXAMPLE 4

EXAMPLE 5

THE MARKS PANE

THE PRESS MARKS AREA

THE PLATE TAGS AREA

THE MARK SPECIFICATIONS AREA

USING THE MARKS PANE

EXAMPLE 1

EXAMPLE 2

EXAMPLE 3

THE PLACEMENT PANE

THE POSITION AREA

THE LAYERS AREA

WHAT IT IS

WHAT QUARK MARKIT ADDS TO QUARKXPRESS

Quark MarkIt pane in the Print Layout dialog box lets you select a

HOW IT WORKS

THE MARKIT STYLES DIALOG BOX

THE EDIT MARKIT STYLE DIALOG BOX

THE NAME FIELD

THE REGISTRATION AREA FIELD

THE PAGE BLEED FIELD

THE HORIZONTAL TRIM AND VERTICAL TRIM FIELDS

PREVIEW CONTROLS: PROXY, ZOOM FIELD, PAGE DROP-DOWN MENU

THE PRESS MARKS BAR

PAGE PREVIEW

THE IMPORT BUTTON

THE X, Y FIELDS

THE REMOVE BUTTON

THE AUTO PLACE DIALOG BOX

THE SETUP DIALOG BOXES

THE TRIM LINE OPTIONS DIALOG BOX

THE TEXT SETUP DIALOG BOX

THE MARK SETUP DIALOG BOX

THE MARKIT PANE OF THE PRINT LAYOUT DIALOG BOX

OVERVIEW

SETTING UP PRINTER FLATS

STEP 1: SPECIFYING A SHEET TYPE

STEP 2: SPECIFYING AN IMPOSITION TYPE

STEP 3: SPECIFYING A BINDING TYPE

STEP 4: FLIPPING AND MOVING PAGES

STEP 5: SPECIFYING BLEED

STEP 6: SPECIFYING CREEP

HOW CREEP WORKS

STEP 7: SPECIFYING CROSSOVER

STEP 8: SPECIFYING MARGINS

STEP 9: SPECIFYING GAPS

STEP 10: SPECIFYING REGISTRATION MARKS

STEP 11: PRINTING WITH QUARK IMPOSER

TILING WITH QUARK IMPOSER

CREATING CUSTOM IMPOSITIONS

PREVIEWING PRINTER FLATS

NAVIGATING PAGES IN THE PREVIEW

DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING PAGE IN QUARKXPRESS

DISPLAYING GUIDES, BLEEDS, AND PAGE NUMBERS

CREATING AND CHOOSING STYLES

STANDARD STYLE

CREATING A STYLE

CHOOSING A STYLE

UPDATING A STYLE

EDITING THE STYLE LIST

SHARING STYLES WITH OTHER USERS

SAMPLE IMPOSITION SCENARIOS