SAN DIEGO, California – Quite Software, developers of Innovative PDF Solutions Worldwide: "Announce that October 2025 they will release Two New Products."
What’s New in 6.0?
The Quite Imposing family are the industry standard for PDF imposition. Version 6 has many enhancements for flexibility, power and productivity.
Background
Over 25 years ago, Quite Software – a UK-based company - foresaw that PDF would dominate the print industry, and set out to produce flexible and reliable tools to fit any workflow. There are two products in the Quite Imposing family.
• Quite Imposing Plus is a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. It has a collection of tools which can be used to prepare and assemble work for imposition and other print-related tasks. Running in Acrobat, the results can be instantly viewed and checked. “Automation sequences” allow sequences of commands to be saved and used over and over again.
• Quite Hot Imposing is a standalone product build on the industry standard Adobe PDF Library. It has the tools from Quite Imposing Plus and can be run through hot folders, command line, or integration with other workflows. It is particularly popular for use with Enfocus Switch workflows.
Variable data merge enhancements in version 6
Since version 5, the family has included variable data merge, which is becoming increasingly important with print work- flows. We have been customer led in adding many New features:
• Align or rotate lines in variable blocks. Users reported needing to right align or centre certain lines, or rotate blocks to fit spaces sideways.
• Override font, alignment or colour for certain lines. Customers needed to change font or other attributes in the middle of a block. Some use for special features eg a line using the USPS barcode font.
• Options to detect, scale or stop with lines that are too long. The variable data comes from varying sources and sometimes has very long lines. Like many tools, Quite Imposing would cut off long lines. There is now the option to scale them, and to set limits on the scaling to maintain readability.
• Improved preview of all records before merging, including search for strings. The user can check for layout, and search for records that are known to have problems, or preview long lines.
General imposition enhancements in version 6
• Generate bleed by scaling or mirroring. Customers often fail to provide adequate bleed, and it is an industry-wide challenge to produce work which behaves as the customer expects for edge-to-edge print. We now offer the chance to generate bleed by extending the page contents. One option is to mirror the page edges. Another option is to scale the entire page to fill the bleed area.
• Step & Repeat can rotate rows, if it yields more pages on a sheet. Step & Repeat fills pages with as many copies of an original as will fit, for print optimisation. It can rotate the sheet if needed to fit more on, and now has the option to rotate individual rows if more pages will fit. This is double-sided-savvy and knows how to make sheets that back up correctly.
• New shuffle options for cut stacks - limited stack depths and multiple tickets. Shuffling for imposition is a core task and working with cut stacks is commonly seen for many tasks from booklets to tickets. Options for limiting stack depth or filling sheets with multiple tickets are now available.
• Work with larger page sizes (more than 200 inches/5080mm). Like many tools, Quite Imposing has been limited to 200 inches page size. Some tools automatically scale for large format printing or design, including recent versions of Adobe Illustrator. The Quite Imposing family can now work with page scales transparently, with appropriate warnings if your workflow still doesn’t handle large sizes.
Productivity in Quite Imposing Plus 6
• Up to date documentation in convenient web format or PDF. The documentation now meets modern expectations of linked web page views, which still providing all-in-one PDF documents.
• Automatically show panels when Acrobat starts. It has been possible since version 5 to create custom panels, to combine the commonly needed commands or sequences of commands. There is now the option to have custom panels or the standard control panel appear when Acrobat starts, saving time and improving productivity.
• Master panel for quick access to other panels. Some users build quite a collection of panels, and we now provide a master panel to quickly start the ones you need.
• Optionally, the return of the long menu for fewer clicks. Menus were reorganized because they were getting very long, but some users preferred the long menus because it meant less clicks. Now they have the choice.
Quite Hot Enhancements
Quite Hot Imposing applies command sequences or XML to each job.
• Set up queues to process files, filtered by filename. Many users work with hot folders, and up to version 5 only one sequence/XML could be active per input folder. Now, filters can be used to choose different work according to the file name.
• XML editing directly. Users who worked with XML command files had to import them as a sequence and export back to XML. Now it can create or edit XML command files directly.
• Use ‘variables’ to adjust settings (such as number of rows, page height, text to add...). This is a huge new feature
for power users. Previously a sequence had specific values hard coded into it. Now variables can be used for most of the settings, and variables can be set in a variety of different ways. Most simply, set variables directly from the filename e.g. TUE_LAYOUT-COPIES=3
Quite Hot enhancement for Enfocus Switch users
Many of our customers are integrating Quite Hot Imposing with Enfocus Switch workflows. We have added specific integration tools for Enfocus Switch, including:
• Set Quite Hot variables from Enfocus Switch private data, or from a Switch submit point prompt.
• Export results (such as pages per sheet) back to Switch private data.
• Use Switch datasets directly eg to insert or stick on pages, or as a variable data source.
Beta testers are finding the New Switch integration features a huge time saver, and making new workflows possible.