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May 30, 2010
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Page imposition and CS5

  • May 30, 2010
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I just upgraded to CS 5 from CS 2 because the sales rep told me Adobe had finally got it together for old fashioned people like me who print and bind their own small books which have been put together with adobe software. The sales rep told me to buy InCopy for page imposition, which I did.

Now I have apparantly updated in error. Adobe considers people like me an old fashioned market segment and would send me to quark's InBooklet?

I know Adobe will give me my money back, but before I do that, am I missing something? Quark bought InBooklet and I find it difficult to believe Adobe still hasn't established a way for us to impose and save the imposed document. Even my small books of 100 pages is so difficult to clear up when they become corrupted InDesign files that I like to have a saved printable version of the imposed book.

I read about investing 6-7 hundred dollars in print imposition software by quite imposing, that's tough considering InBooklet was less than 100 dollars and free with Quark.

Am I missing something?

Garrett

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    Peter Spier
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    May 30, 2010

    Simple impositions can be done driectly in InDesign using Print Booklet from the File menu.

    In Copy is an editorial program designed to allow users to edit stories in the page layout context without the actual need to use the full layout capabilities of InDesign. I think your sales rep was badly misinformed.

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    May 31, 2010

    Yes, that's my impression of the sales rep, too; personable but very wrong.

    I need to save an imposed book because InDesign files so often decompose and corrupt. For me it is best to have an imposed copy on file so that if I edit a book and become involved in the nightmare of corrupted files I at least have an older version of an imposed book to print while I'm hashing through the chapters looking for the one that's corrupted.