For those of us using alap's Imposer and Imposer Pro, creating printer's spreads within QuarkXPress® is paramount to our workflow. It also means that until Imposer Pro is upgraded, we're stuck at QuarkXPress 7. With the latest release of MadeToPrint for QuarkXPress (and InDesign®), we can upgrade with confidence.

QuarkXPress 8 brought a plethora of new features and capabilities, the likes of which I had been dreaming about for years. Having worked in QuarkXPress since the version 3.0 days, I have been more than pleasantly delighted with each new version, but version 8 was special and greeted with great enthusiasm on my end — it added significantly to my design arsenal and that’s always a huge plus.

When I found out that my MadeToPrint XT was going to be updated with imposition capabilities, it was as though I’d won a lottery — one that gave me an intuitive addition to QuarkXPress 8 that would allow me to impose my own layouts/projects easily and quickly — two key requirements for me. Translation? I could move on to more design and layout work. Time and money savings? You bet. I wasted no time installing the new MadeToPrint.

With the release of MadeToPrint XT with imposition for QuarkXPress versions 7 – 8 and InDesign CS2 – CS4, you can print fully imposed PDF files from within the native application. The product ships with time- and money-saving pre-configured imposition schemes that will cover a comprehensive list of common imposition tasks, thus making it a snap to get started. You simply activate the imposition function and compose your imposition scheme with the entries under the categories provided. These include runlist and sheet configuration.

For more information on the other features of MadeToPrint, be sure to check out our previous article. Click here for MadeToPrint.

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You will find an entry for MadeToPrint in the QuarkXPress file menu once you have loaded the XTensions module. As an example, we will use a simple business card project and make them double-sided on one page. Choose file > MadeToPrint to prompt the MadeToPrint dialogue box. Start by creating a new MadeToPrint job, choose a job name, and enter that name with the general settings option highlighted/selected in the MadeToPrint settings dialogue box.

Next, you select settings > printer > File (PDF) as shown in figure two below. Keep in mind that the imposition function isn’t available for PostScript printing, so if PostScript does exist, you can use the Distiller to create your PDF.

Figure 2 Prompt the MadeToPrint dialogue box by choosing it from the file menu.

From the print style drop-down menu, choose the output style format. You may change the settings stored in these predefined options through the QuarkXPress edit > output styles option.

Figure 3 Use the print style drop-down menu to define the QuarkXPress output style.

Click the radio button to choose all pages or define a page range. As you make your selections, they are shown in the summary field as shown in these figures.

Figure 4 The summary field shows you a snapshot of the selections you have made.

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