Impose
Regular N-up imposition with Simplex/Duplex records, scaling, margins, gutters, crop marks, center marks, printer marks and bleed handling.
PDF PRESS PILOT
PDF Production & Imposition Suite
Explore the full production toolkit.
Arrange, prepare and automate production PDFs in one standalone Windows application.
01 / Arrange
Imposition & layout
Build press sheets for individual jobs, booklets and shared-sheet production.
Monkey Impose
Mix portrait and landscape positions on the same press sheet, with the same core production controls available in standard Impose.
Booklet
2-up saddle-stitch page ordering with blank-page completion, front/back sheet mapping, scaling, centering and production marks.
Cut & Stack
Arrange records so cut piles stack back into continuous numerical order, including duplex work.
Gang Imposition
Combine multiple PDF jobs on shared sheets with automatic packing and rotation.
02 / Prepare
PDF preparation
Reorder pages, adjust artwork and add overlays or document protection.
Shuffle
Reverse pages, use odd-then-even or even-then-odd ordering, or create a custom page sequence for specialized production work.
Rotate
Rotate all pages the same way, rotate odd and even pages independently, or rotate only a selected page range.
Scale
Scale by percent, fit artwork to page, or set exact artwork dimensions and custom output page sizes.
Overlay
Overlay one PDF over or under another, match or cycle overlay pages, control placement and add an independent custom message.
Watermark
Add repeated or centered protection watermarks, independent custom messages and optional edit/copy/printing restrictions.
03 / Automate
Production automation
Run a configured operation across a batch, connect several steps or watch for incoming files.
Batch Process
Apply one configured PDF Press Pilot function to multiple PDFs in a single run with safe output handling and per-file failure isolation.
Multi-Step Workflow
Chain multiple PDF Press Pilot operations together with full per-step functional settings.
Hot Folder
Automatically process incoming PDFs from a watched folder into a designated output folder.
Inside Production Tools: Cut & Stack, Gang Imposition, Multi-Step Workflow and Hot Folder are accessed from one dedicated production area.
04 / Finish
Printer marks & bleed controls
Production controls built into the relevant tools, where supported.
Printer Marks
Registration targets, CMYK color bars, slug/job information, file names, sheet numbers and side identifiers where supported.
Bleed Controls
Document bleed, fixed authored bleed, plus Stretch Edge and Mirror Edge bleed creation in supported imposition tools.
Find the right package for your team.
Choose a license for 1, 2 or 5 PCs, or contact us about a larger team.