but your softwares are so expensive, so quickly obsolete and your scientific organization of the incompatibility to oblige the users to always buy your newest softwares is so efficient that some little companies (like mine) are obliged to buy new softwares before having finished to pay the previous stuff (or before having earn money with the previous versions)!!! They forget the value of their own time and the cost of having to redo work.Ĭlick to expand.Let me explain something to you: when we (printers) buy presses or some other kind of hardwares, we know that we will be able to use it enough long time to pay it and we know that we will earn some money with it before being obliged to replace it. Amazing how many print professionals drool over expensive presses and other 'hardware' but continually bitch and moan about the cost of software, but will spend many hours of their time avoiding software maintenance or purchase of professional products that will readily solve their problems.

The emphasis on 'cheap' in this thread is highly disturbing to me. (For the record, I am not paid or otherwise compensated to endorse their software!) Yes, they are not 'cheap' but then again, it isn't amateur hour software either. You might want to take a look at Quite Software's Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus plug-ins for Acrobat. If you don't have imposition software as an integral part of your PDF workflow / RIP system, a better place to do imposition is in Acrobat itself. It is not an imposition program and can be lossy for some detailed aspects of placed PDF (especially PDF/X output rendering intents and transparency flattening color spaces). Quite frankly, InDesign is not the place to do PDF imposition.

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