Tools of the Imposition Editor / Context-Sensitive Menu

You can apply the following functions using the toolbar (from left to right):

"Save job" - "Save" / "Save as"

You can save the jobs that you edited with the Imposition Editor as a "*.jdf" file.

You can open a saved job at any time to edit it; open it from Acrobat with "Plug-Ins > Prinect 2020 > Imposition Editor > Open Layout...". The "Prinect PDF Toolbox Editor - Select a Job" dialog displays.

Your job is saved under its present name with "Save". You can give your job a new name when you save it with "Save As".

Note: Your "*.jdf" file has references to the PDF file. If the paths to the content files change (because you moved the file), it is possible that content files or marks are no lon­ger found when you open a job.

In such a case, the "Missing File" dialog displays, giving you the following options:

•You can set a new path to the content file in a browser dialog. Click "Retry" when the path is set correctly.

•"Cancel": The job displays without content pages if you click "Cancel". Instead, the same num­ber of page placeholders as required by the job scheme is generated.

Output Job

"Output in Acrobat":

This lets you output directly in Acrobat.

"Select folder":

You can select the hot folder (target folder) manually or using the browser dialog.

"Output of":

This is where you set whether you wish to output only the front, only the back or front and back.

"Mode":

This is where you can select whether folding sheets, sheets or the plate size will be output.

•"Plate Size":
You output the whole imaging window in your final output. This is always set by default.

"Marks Color":

This lets you set the color for the marks (e.g. folding sheet cuts, cut marks) and the info text. Select "Black" to confine the marks to the black separation or "All" to output them in all four colors.

"Print Range":

This is where you set which parts of the job will be output.

•"All":
The entire job is output.

•"Pages":
You can define the pages that will be output in the box beside it. All the pages are output if you do not define any pages.
All sheets that have defined pages are output.

•"Sheets":
You can define the sheets that will be output in the box beside it. All the sheets are output if you do not define any sheets.
The file names are numbered consecutively if you output sheetwise.

"Keep as one file":

The job is output as a PDF file if this option is set.

The job is output sheetwise if this option is not set. In other words, a PDF file is generated for each sheet. The file names are numbered consecutively if you output sheetwise.

Tape measure

You can use the tape measure as follows:

1.Click "Tape Measure" (or press the "m" key). The cursor changes to a crosshair.

2.Click the view with the left mouse button and draw the tape measure holding down the mouse button. The distance you are measuring shows while you are holding down the mouse button.

The tape measure also lets you measure accurately in horizontal and vertical direction. To do this, hold down the Shift key at the same time when you are measuring.

"Show/close document view"

"Content" (working without layers):

All the PDF content files are listed below this item. The page list can be shown for every PDF file. The pages in the page list are numbered consecutively. These numbers are found below each page. If a page was assigned to the layout, the page placeholder number from the layout appears on the corre­sponding page in the page list. A double click on the page opens the page in Acrobat.

"Content" (working with layers):

The layer names are shown below "Content" when you work with layers. The PDF files shared by all languages are generally shown below the first layer. The language-specific PDF files are generally shown below the second layer.

Page selection:

This is where you select the range of pages that you will use. Do not enter anything if you wish to use all the pages.

Enter the page numbers or page ranges separated by commas (e.g. 1, 2, 4-9). Then click "Apply".

Context-sensitive menu of a page:

You can open a context-sensitive menu for each page in the page list.

•"Open in Acrobat":
The selected page displays in Acrobat.

•"Properties...":
See Terms Used in the Imposition Editor.

Context-sensitive menu

Right-click in the layout view of the open PDF file or job.

The following functionalities are possible:

Zoom In/Zoom Out

After you click "Zoom In/Zoom Out" (or press the "z" key), the cursor changes to a magnifying glass with a + sign.

•Click the view with the left mouse button to scale it up.

•You can also scale up a certain section of the view. Click with the left mouse button, then hold­ing it down, create a box over the section you want. When you release the mouse button, you will see a scale-up of the section you marked.

•Hold down the Ctrl key and click the view with the left mouse button to scale it down.

Previous View

The view of the last scale-up/down displays when you click "Previous View" (or press the "l" key).

Add PDF Mark...

Normally, this function is used for plate control strips and Dipco marks.

In the next window, select the file with the PDF mark.

You can select the angle, output and positions on front and/or back in a properties dialog. To go there, right-click the mark and select "Properties".

•Front/Back:
This lets you decide on which press sheet the mark will be placed, e.g. a color control bar only on color separations.

•X Position / Y Position:
This function lets you set the position of the PDF mark manually. The bottom left corner of the printing material is the reference point.

•Right arrow:
Applies the position of the front mark also to the back.

•Confine to Subject Width/Height:
You can define whether or not the mark can be seen only in the subject area.

•Angle:
Selection of the angle for rotating the PDF mark.

•File name:
Name of the mark. Click the icon beside it and browse to the mark that you want to add.

•Preview:
Shows actions done in the dialog immediately.

Note: It's worthwhile disabling the preview if you have jobs with a great number of pages.

To delete the PDF mark, right-click it and select "Remove" in the context-sensitive menu.

Info Text

Text marks are shown when this function is enabled.

To customize the text mark, right-click it and select "Properties" in the context-sensitive menu. A dia­log displays where you can set the following data:

•X Position / Y Position:
This function lets you set the position of the text mark manually. The bottom left corner of the printing material is the reference point.
The coordinates of the mark on the front are on the left and those on the back are on the right.

•Arrow button:
Applies the position of the front mark also to the back.

•Color Names next to one Another:
When this option is enabled, the separation color names are arranged next to one another and not on top of one another.

•Angle:
Selection of the angle for rotating the text mark. Rotations at right angles are possible.

•Font:
This is where you can change the font and font size. Four fonts are available. The font size can be between 8 and 20 pt.

•Comment:
This is where you can enter text that can be added to the text mark and printed with it.

•Preview:
Shows actions done in the dialog immediately.

Show

The settings below are applicable only to the screen display and do not affect your print later on.

•Frames:
You can show or hide frames with this function. The blue guides surround the trimmed size. The green guides surround the folding sheets.

•Marks:
This is where you set whether marks will be shown or hidden for a more simple view.

•Content:
This is where you can set whether or not the page contents will be shown. Gray areas display if page contents are not shown. You can see a purple circle with a white "F" on each page. This tells you how the page is oriented.

•Page Numbers:
This is where you can set whether or not page placeholder numbers of the layout will be shown.

•Clip Pages:
You can use this function to set whether or not contents excluded from imaging or printing will be shown.
This function is applied in the following situations:

·A page content is larger than the trimmed size plus bleed.
Everything that juts beyond the bleed is not shown if the "Clip Pages" function is enabled.

·There is artwork that is not positioned in the imaging window.
These objects are not shown if the "Clip Pages" function is enabled.
If the function is disabled, you can view all the objects and check whether or not you really want to image them.

Properties...(page)

If a page is active in the layout view, "Properties" displays for selection in the context-sensitive menu. You can use it to view specific page details for every page.

1.To do this, right-click a page.

2.Select "Properties..." from the context-sensitive menu.

The "Page Properties" dialog displays:

•"Document": Document name with path

•"Page": Position of the page in the page list

•"Ordinal": See Ordinal Number.

•"Rotation": Page orientation in the PDF file

•"Scale": Scaling of the page

"Boxes" group

This shows you the boxes listed below with size and X/Y position (X/Y = page origin at bottom left). There will be no information about a box if it is not defined for a PDF page.

•"MediaBox":
The media box comprises all objects of a page, including text and images that appear on the page or extend beyond the page.
From a technical point of view, the media box defines the limits of the physical medium on which the page is to be printed. Apart from the complete page, it can comprise space for trim marks, color control bars and other elements.
Contents outside the media box can be deleted without changing the essential PDF file contents because Adobe® Acrobat® ignores objects outside the media box when creating PDF files.

•"CropBox":
The crop box defines the area the page content is cropped to for display or output. In contrast to the other box types, this box does not tell you anything about the physical page geometry or intended use. It merely defines how the page contents are cropped. The crop box defines the way the page contents are positioned on the output medium if no other information is available (e.g. imposition instructions defined in a JDF or PJTF job).

•"TrimBox":
The trim box shows the final document size after printing and cutting. The trim box must be smaller than the bleed box or media box.

•"BleedBox":
The bleed box represents an extended area around the trim box causing the entire page contents to be trimmed when a bleed area is defined. A document requiring a bleed also requires a bleed box. The bleed box is always larger than the trim box and smaller than the media box. The bleed area of a printed page can have marks, slug lines, etc.

•"ArtBox":
The art box represents a page area (e.g. a graphic file) that will be positioned when the PDF con­tent is to be placed in an application such as a DTP program. The art box must be smaller than the bleed box.

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