Quite Software were founded in London, England in
1995, and relocated to the beautiful Highlands of Scotland in 2000.
Our first product, PSAlter remains the tool of choice
for PostScript programmers and problem solving.
In 1997, we saw that PDF was likely to be the
wave of the future, and began to create plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat. Drawing on
our experience of the printing and publishing trades, we decided to focus on the
area of pre-press production.
Our first plug-in was Quite Imposing. This remains the
tool of choice for doing imposing - booklet making and sheet layouts - in Adobe
Acrobat.
This was followed by Quite A Box Of Tricks and, in 2002,
Quite Revealing, both acclaimed as
powerful but easy to use and learn.
Quite Hot Imposing 4
Automate with Hot Folders or Command Line
Quite Hot Imposing is a server product for working with hot folders or a command-line.
Available for both Mac and Win platforms, this is a very versatile and easy-to use workflow product. Import your current setups (XML) and save them so that they are easily repeated on other imposition tasks. Now you can create customized workflows with the power of Quite Software's Imposition tools. Use Quite Imposing Plus to create setups, use Quite Hot Imposing to work with them in a server environment.
Just a few of the new features and enhancements:
NEW! Streamlined design
NEW! Stick on Text and Numbers in your choice of embedded fonts, colours and rotation.
NEW! Stick On PDF Pages function to stick on PDF pages (graphics, adverts, stamps, marks etc.)
NEW! Insert pages or blanks at intervals, for example to add fixed backs. Can be used to merge files.
NEW! Manual imposition can repeat a layout to a large number of pages, and can automatically position pages as fronts/backs. Also smart crop marks which will not overlap.
Tile (Split) pages
Easily duplicate pages
Scale pages equally or anamorphically
Mirror alignment on back of sheets
Add variable data on pages or sheets
Fix orientation – quickly deal with a document that has a mixture of tall and wide
Set up more complex automated sequences
Watched folder and command line. Suitable for server use (single location, not internet)
Work with PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 files
If you impose, and you want a way to automate your workflow and improve productivity and profits then you need Quite Hot Imposing.
Automate your Workflow
XML is rapidly gaining acceptance as a way of transferring information between programs, so it was a natural choice for us in describing imposition tasks. So we will encourage OEMs, integrators and workflow vendors to create customized workflows using its Hot folder or Command-Line (XML) tools.
If you are using Quite Imposing Plus, it makes an XML for every imposition you create, so you already have XML available for Quite Hot Imposing.
Our customers have used the Quite Hot Imposing command line to integrate with industry standard workflow products including
Enfocus Switch
Solimar
Xerox FreeFlow
There is direct support for integrating Quite Hot Imposing with the Switch range of workflow automation products from Enfocus as per the example below.
The XML metadata is used to determine how a file should be imposed. You create the imposition layout, then export the settings for use with the Quite Hot Imposing configurator in Switch.
Why upgrade to Quite Hot Imposing 4.0?
All the new power tools from Quite Imposing Plus 4.0
Many new features, here are some highlights for power users.
Stick on Text and Numbers now allows your choice of embedded fonts, colours and rotation.
New Stick On PDF Pages function to stick on PDF pages (graphics, adverts, stamps, marks etc.)
Insert pages or blanks at intervals, for example to add fixed backs. Can be used to merge files.
Manual imposition can repeat a layout to a large number of pages, and can automatically position pages as fronts/backs. Also smart crop marks which will not overlap.
Adjust page sizes by a percentage rather than to a fixed size; or set all pages the same size without knowing size in advance.
Trim & shift/creep now have the advanced option to keep bleed margins.
New to Quite Hot Imposing
Redesigned main screen
We heard you tell us that the main screen was awkward to use, especially for a larger number of queues. So we redesigned it. There is touch screen support on Windows 8 and later, and you can make the display extra large to use as a control screen for viewing across the room.
Combine files using job folders
Easily combine files by putting them together, in what we call a job folder. How it works.
Advanced workflow changes
Allow a control.xml file to override the queue set up, both for the whole queue and for a job folder.
Option to add a prefix/suffix to output file names.