Cheap Impostor 3.1.1

Imposition app: turn PDFs into magazines, books.
Cheap Impostor is a very nice 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. If you want to transform large PDF files into bound books Cheap Impostor is the ideal tool.

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.

Main features of Cheap Impostor:

Imposes PDF files for books and magazines:
· Reorders pages for magazines and books (sheets per signature can be varied from 1 to page-count / 4.
· Takes 1-up PDF input and produces 2-up output PDF.

· 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.

With shareware registration, enables:
· Page zoom and inside offset controls.
· Margin "creep" compensation.
· Printer center adjustment.


Limitations of Cheap Impostor:

Several features are disabled in the demo version.

What's New in This Release:

Improved documentation.

Fixed a bug in the PDF service, which failed to execute Cheap Impostor from some programs (e.g. Pages).

Fixed a bug with "better 2-up," in which some documents caused Cheap Impostor to crash.

"Better 2-up" works in German locale now.

As always, this version is free for all registered owners of previous versions.