PDF, PostScript and Imposition tools

=Introduction=

First: you may not know what imposition is: Wikipedia will tell you.

A list of tools which are useful for imposition.

Two type of software are listed here:


 * software which can be obtained free of charge and can help you do some imposition tasks.
 * imposition software (free, free of charge or payware)

=Multiplatform=

example for making a booklet: $ java.exe -cp multivalent.jar" tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x1 -layout 2,3,4,1 -paper "297x210 mm" -verbose file.pdf
 * pdftk (free)
 * bookbinder (free)
 * multivalent (free) (see How to make impositions with Multivalent)
 * PoDoFo Impose (free; imposition tool distributed with the PoDoFo library)
 * On-line imposition with PoDoFo (web based, work in progress; by Pierre Marchand; there is still an old server)
 * Adobe Reader 8 and 9 will do booklet printing for you. For a A4 booklet, you just need to export an A5 document to PDF and then tell Adobe Reader to print it as a booklet.
 * PDFSaM is a very reliable Java-based tool that provides many options to manipulate PDF files. Especially recommended for pre-press work!
 * jPDF Tweak is a versatile Java-based tool with loads of options to edit PDF files.
 * PDFedit is a collection of Qt3 scripts assembled under a GUI. It permits editing PDF files down to the level of text editing, font changes and more.

=Linux, Unix and "Darwin"=


 * pstops (see How to make impositions with pstops)
 * pdf-shuffler (introduction by bigbrovar) Not really an imposition program, but permits easy reshuffling and adding/deleting of pages.

=OS X=


 * PDFmergeX (donationware): not really an imposition tool... but it may have enough features for you
 * CombinePDFs (donationware)

=Windows=