Applications for Life Company has released Imposition Wizard 1.8 (http://www.impositionwizard.com), an update to their professional level, standalone imposition software for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
As a standalone application, Imposition Wizard doesn’t require any third-party software, it just reads and writes PDF files. Version 1.8 sports several small improvements, and features a two-up preview mode, reads bleed and trim data from source files, as well as allows to rotate sheets and define their default parameters.
Imposition Wizard supports all main imposition schemes: Booklet, N-Up, Step & Repeat, Cut Stack. It allows to reorder pages of source documents, supports custom crops and bleeds of source pages, allows to define padding for sheets and trim the unused space. Imposition Wizard supports creeps for booklets, it performs saddle stitched and perfect binded impositions and much more. This software can solve most imposition tasks and can be controlled using AppleScript.
One feature of Imposition Wizard is its “real-time” nature. It displays results of your actions immediately. It recalculates layout of sheet in real time after your change any parameter, so you will see the results of every step of your work.
Imposition Wizard costs US$300. Version 1.8 is a free update for registered users.