Cheap Impostor 2.61 review
DownloadCheap Impostor is a simple yet powerful alternative to fancy page imposition software.
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Cheap Impostor is a simple yet powerful alternative to fancy page imposition software. It doesn't offer all the features of high-end imposition software. However, if you want to print and bind booklets, magazines, or even long books, this program might be all the imposition software you need. It's ideal for turning large PDF files into bound books.
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.
Tiger Compatible.
Here are some key features of "Cheap Impostor":
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
Comes with an easy to read How-to Guide that explains what "sheets per signature" means, and how to use Cheap Impostor to make books and magazines.
Supports automatic and manual duplex printers, with and without collation, long- or short-edge binding
With shareware registration, supports;
Variable output page sizes: letter, legal, ledger, A3, A4, custom
Accommodates variable input page sizes
Control over page zoom and horizontal and vertical offset of 2-up.
What's New:
Fixed PDF floating-point output - caused some images to not show up in imposed output.
Fixed null stream parsing (skipped past too many newline characters) - caused parser to halt with PDF error.
Fixed universal app build - some machines were having problems launching. If you still have problems please let me know!
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