Imposition Publisher 4.6.5 - July 2006
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Imposition Publisher 4.6 is a major release, bringing the native PDF imposition engine to the mainstream Studio Professional version, for the Macintosh standalone, Windows standalone and server versions. Imposition Publisher 4.6.5 is a maintenance release fixing a problem with Chinese Type 3 fonts.
See below for more details on what has been changed in this release.
The standalone program is available for both Macintosh and Windows computers.
Multi-user Client Server versions are available, where the standard standalone programs act as the clients
to a powerful centralised server, running either Windows (NT/2000/XP/2003) or the most common Unix operating systems
(Solaris, SGI, Mac OS X and Linux (x86)).
Mac OS X Compatibility
If you are an existing customer, within your warranty period or maintenance contract, you can download and use the
updated software. However you will need to contact Farrukh Systems Technical Support to obtain a new Release Code.
For sales or upgrade enquiries, call +44 20 8207 4249 or email sales@farrukh.co.uk.
If you are new to Imposition Publisher, you can download a Demo version of the standalone programs
which will work with your own PostScript/PDF files, with some restricted functionality.
Downloads
Macintosh Standalone Version (7 MB)
Windows Standalone Version (12 MB)
Server Version
The other Unix server versions will appear here as they become available.
New Features in v4.6
- Imposition Publisher 4.6 has a native PDF imposition engine (as well as a PostScript engine). Jobs containing just PDF files will automatically use the native PDF engine.
- The PDF Native version also loads the Personal Professional PostScript drivers.
Issues Resolved in v4.6.5
Issues Common to both Mac and Windows
- Fixed a problem with Chinese Type 3 fonts that could crash Imposition Publisher
- Fixed a problem with cut and stack impositions with blank pages that could
crash Imposition Publisher
- Fixed a bug in the driver's BackSearch command
Windows-specific Issues
- Automatic page numbering feature in Cut and Stack impositions. Set the page
ordering to 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Imposition Publisher will calculate the pages
automatically at print time.
- Fixed the automatic dongle driver install for DK3 USB dongles
Issues Resolved in v4.6.4
Issues Common to both Mac and Windows
- Separated PDF jobs not recognised by the Delta (and other Adobe CPSI) rips as being separated.
- Crash occurred if the PDF colour bar was longer than 1016 mm.
- Fix to the core engine to handle an unrecognised driver command.
Mac-specific Issues
- The 4.6 Mac Client running on Mac OS X could fail to login to the server.
Windows-specific Issues
- Spread pages do not output correctly.
- When multiple files are added, changing page size did not affect the block size.
- Landscape file, if the page size is changed to one of the standard paper sizes (e.g. A5/A4/A3), the dimensions are reset to portrait.
- Process colour names aren't recognised by the rip as being process colours.
- Crash occurred by clicking in the Preview dialog when Imposition Publisher was not the frontmost application.
- Out of memory error appears if you enter zero for Pages Across or Down in the Imposition Setup dialog.
- Coming and Going impositions, the number of webs field was ignored.
- Print dialog, the Device popup menu always reverted to the first in the list, rather than the last used.
- Previewing, the naming of the output file was inconsistent.
- Window Client Server, using Inherit Page Size, pages from 2nd file output as blanks.
- Small memory leak when printing.
- Crash at startup if the system's PATH environment variable is longer than 128 characters.
Issues Resolved in v4.6.3
Issues Common to both Mac and Windows
- Job Name is passed into the output file for PDF jobs.
- The output PDF for separated PDF jobs should be recognised as separated at rip.
- In a PostScript job with creep, separations could be out of registration.
- Composite Plate Colour label works correctly in PDF jobs.
- Document Job Title and Document Job User labels output correctly.
- Crash if the job contained only blank pages.
Mac-specific Issues
- Add Files button now lets you see PostScript files created on Mac OS X.
- EPS Custom Marks would not output on the black separation.
- File list separation icons appeared in brown rather than in CMYK colours.
- Opening a saved file list with switched off pages caused all switched off separations to merge into one switched off page.
Windows-specific Issues
- Job Name is displayed correctly in the Rip Monitor (and Windows printer window).
- Certain PDF Files failed to load into the file list.
- Page resizing in the File Info dialog caused incorrect page positioning.
- Device Setup, the X offset was duplicated and used as the Y offset value.
- Tiling warning message was wrong.
- Dongle Driver installation/detection issues resolved.
- Detection of Acrobat at startup failed even though Acrobat was present.
- User Label, special fields now output correctly.
- Flatwork, Align Items option now works with rotated pages.
- Mixing PostScript and PDF files in the same job works correctly (Acrobat 5 and 6).
- Print marks from 4.0 convert correctly.
- Imposition, Page Placement dialog only displayed the first digit of the page number.
Issues Resolved in v4.6.0
- Units default to mm and trim values default to 3mm (Macintosh).
- Signature Mark and Collating mark output correctly (Macintosh).
- User Label automatic fields print correctly in foreign versions (Windows).
- One Block per File print option works correctly (Windows).
- Previewing works for server-created PDFs that do not have a .pdf extension.
- User Label automatic fields print correctly in the client-server version.
New Features in v4.5
- Imposition Publisher 4.5 Macintosh and Windows are compatible with the each other.
Client Server users can use a mixture of Macintosh and Window clients, sharing impositions, flatwork documents, mark sets and device settings.
Issues Resolved in v4.5
- A PostScript limitcheck error has been eliminated. (This only occurred rarely, with very complex pages.)
- The Signature Mark letter now appears at the bottom of the first page of a section.
- The Demo version allows previewing.
Issues Resolved in v4.2.4
- Rampage (and other EPS-based) workflows. A Preferences dialog item allows you to add a file extension onto the output file name.
- Server versions - Inherit Page Size and Inherit Margins did not work correctly in v4.2.3
- The Collating Mark can now be edited to start at a particular section.
- The CPC 4 mark now separates correctly in a composite CMYK workflow.
- Switching from a composite job to a colour separated job could cause the Print Options dialog colour choice to stick on Colour Ignore. For separated jobs, Colour All is now the default choice.
- Could not preview if the output filename ended with .eps
- PDF Processing - pages could be out of position in the imposed file, particularly if non-standard page sizes.
- The Rampage drivers have been updated to handle jobs that do not contain any process colours.
Issues Resolved in v4.2.3
- Signature letter in Signature Mark and User Label was incorrect if you had multiple sections in one block.
- Saved File List with moved pages could open with a different number of pages to how it was saved.
- Colour separated workflow with recombination of imposed separations for proofing - now have conforming %%Page: comments.
- PDF Processing - Non-centred pages with correct TrimBox information are now processed correctly.
- PDF Processing (Acrobat 5) - Incorrect page ordering occurred when pages switched off or moved.
- PDF Processing (Server, Windows NT) - Pages moved from another file could cause the job to fail.
- PDF Processing (Server versions) - Pages switched off could cause the job to fail.
- PDF Processing (Server versions) - Flatwork Print with pages from more than 1 file failed.
- Server version reported wrong number of pages in rare cases (ArtQuest driver).
- Server version (Windows 2000) - Could not print or download to a network printer.
Release Notes
For full details, including changes in earlier versions, see the Release Notes file, inside the installation folder.
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