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Cheap Impostor... If you want to use your computer to make a book or a magazine, the final step before printing is called imposition. Cheap Impostor is a simple yet powerful alternative to fancy imposition software. It doesn't offer all the features of high-end imposition software (which costs hundreds or thousands of dollars).
Hence the name.
However, if you want to print and bind booklets, magazines, or even long books, this program might be all the imposition software you need.
What does it do? Let's say you want to make a magazine from a document you've
However, if you want to print and bind booklets, magazines, or even long books, this program might be all the imposition software you need.
What does it do? Let's say you want to make a magazine from a document you've
What's New
Version 3.2.2:
- Default window location and size saved with "Save Preferences"
- Manual duplex now saves and opens two PDF files for separate printing
- Advanced preferences button easier to see
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Users of 10.4 can use version 3.1.1, and users of 10.3.9 can still use version 2.6.1. (Links to both provided on product page)
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Users of 10.4 can use version 3.1.1, and users of 10.3.9 can still use version 2.6.1. (Links to both provided on product page)
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| Downloads:16,368 |
| Version Downloads:3,047 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Author Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:10 Feb 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $35.00 |
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Cheap Impostor... If you want to use your computer to make a book or a magazine, the final step before printing is called imposition. Cheap Impostor is a simple yet powerful alternative to fancy imposition software. It doesn't offer all the features of high-end imposition software (which costs hundreds or thousands of dollars).
Hence the name.
However, if you want to print and bind booklets, magazines, or even long books, this program might be all the imposition software you need.
What does it do? Let's say you want to make a magazine from a document you've written. You would like to have the magazine be the size of a sheet of paper folded in half. Without imposition software the simplest way to transform your document into a magazine would be to use a photo-copier to shrink and re-order the pages so two fit sideways on a sheet of paper, and so that when a stack of them is stapled and folded in half the pages appear in the correct order.
The short story is that Cheap Impostor lets you skip the photocopier step, and produce output from your printer that can directly be turned into a magazine. Further, Cheap Impostor has settings that let you create books with multiple signatures. It comes with a simple "How-to guide".
Feature overview:
However, if you want to print and bind booklets, magazines, or even long books, this program might be all the imposition software you need.
What does it do? Let's say you want to make a magazine from a document you've written. You would like to have the magazine be the size of a sheet of paper folded in half. Without imposition software the simplest way to transform your document into a magazine would be to use a photo-copier to shrink and re-order the pages so two fit sideways on a sheet of paper, and so that when a stack of them is stapled and folded in half the pages appear in the correct order.
The short story is that Cheap Impostor lets you skip the photocopier step, and produce output from your printer that can directly be turned into a magazine. Further, Cheap Impostor has settings that let you create books with multiple signatures. It comes with a simple "How-to guide".
Feature overview:
- Takes 1-up PDF input and produces 2-up output PDF
- Reorders pages for magazines and books (sheets per signature can be varied from 1 to page-count / 4
- Supports automatic and manual duplex printers, with and without collation
- With shareware registration, supports:
- Variable output page sizes: letter, legal, ledger, A3, A4, custom
- Control over page zoom and horizontal and vertical offset of 2-up - accommodates variable input page sizes
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Dingdongdaddy reviewed on 19 Sep 2010
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Hamishmacdonald reviewed on 10 Feb 2010
Please, Dylan, add N-up settings to Cheap Imposter, or even produce "Expensive Imposter", and if it's anything like this application, a grateful community would be happy to throw money at you.
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so I emailed the developer, and to my surprise and delight he responded within hours with a link on the webpage to the last version for 10.4 - it's down on the bottom right
http://www.cheapimpostor.com/
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Prior to Cheap Imposter, I used Quite Imposing, a very good, but very expensive program with very expensive upgrades. I've never looked back.
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What Cheap Impostor gives you that this service doesn't is control over the imposition process - offsets, zoom, creep, etc.
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Jun 2004