Imposition Plugin Discussion

Student applicant for GSoC 2007: Mateusz Haligowski <halish at kofeina.org>.

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Background Information

• Wikipedia
• About.com
• Preparing for imposition (about.com)
• How it is done in Adobe Indesign
• How it is done in Quark Express
• Two examples of how it is done in CorelDraw: 1, 2

Imposition Plugin Discussion

Most needed use cases:

• booklet printing:
  Arrange original pages on print sheets which are at least twice as large as the original page; make sure the backside pages end up at the correct position and orientation.
  Take care of bleed areas and crop marks.

• business cards:
  Replicate original page in a fixed grid on the print sheet; take care that the backside matches.

• n-folds:
  Scribus already allows reader spreads for a limited choice of n-folds. Provide a simple imposition for these on a print sheet.

• Möbius band printing:
  Arrange a sequence of pages in strips which can be glued together to form a Möbius band (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip)