Creative
Tip: Create
simple imposed booklets from PDFs.
Here
is a recent question from one of CreativeTechs' priority clients:
"Do you know if there is a plug-in available for InDesign
that easily creates imposed booklets? There used to be InBooklet
from ALAP, but it appears that they were acquired by Quark (aaarghh!!)."
Great
question! Until a new developer comes along, or Adobe creates their
own solution, here are a couple choices for InDesign users:
A).
Use InBooklet SE (Bundled with InDesign CS2). Although
Quark has pulled the plug on the full InBooklet tool, a special
edition version still ships with InDesign CS2. For some people,
that may be enough reason to upgrade to the CS2 version of
InDesign.
 B)
Use Cheap Imposter to create impositions from a PDF. Cheap
Impostor ($35) is a simple page imposition software. Just
save your InDesign document out as a PDF and run it through
this tool. If you want to print and bind booklets, magazines,
or even long books, Cheap Imposter might be all the imposition
software you need. (www.cheapimpostor.com)
Source:
In December, QuarkXPress
bought ALAP (A Lowly Apprentice Production Inc) which makes
a number of InDesign and QuarkXpress plug-ins. This month
Quark announced they will no longer sell the InDesign plug-ins
from ALAP's collection. (Read a good article in the Quark
vs InDesign blog.)
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