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Group Pages – Group the pages together as they are imported. The pages must be the same size and
align for grouping. The diagram shows a pink line around individual pages when they are not grouped
or around all pages when they are grouped. Pages must group for pairing to work.
Inclusive – This option attempts to group pages with parameters/alignments differing by very small
amounts.
Rotation – Choose to rotate the signatures during import.
Offset Page Numbers – Offset the page numbers of those signatures imported by a number.
Imported JDF files generally need to have the Offset Page Numbers set to 1, otherwise the first page
will begin at 0. This can be changed after import if necessary.
• Top Align / Left Align – Optional ways of viewing the interface, depending on your display and preferred
layout.
• Close Page Number Gaps – Use this to close the page numbers after pairing. When pairing a large publication,
the lowest page number of the pair is used as the resultant paired page number. This usually produces gaps in
the page numbers. Close Page Number Gaps closes the gaps so pages are sequential.
• Import Language Encoding – Select the appropriate language encoding for the signatures so the names can be
displayed correctly in the native language. This is set from the contextual menu (right click).
Signatures
This panel lists all of the Signatures in the group. The Plate, Sheet, Grid and Page options for
the selected Signature are shown in the configuration panels on the screen.
Signature Options:
• New – Creates a new untitled signature.
• Delete – Removes the selected signatures from the list.
• Duplicate – Makes a copy of the selected signatures.
Signatures can be multi-­‐selected or dragged and dropped to another position in the list (for de-­‐imposition purposes).
When multiple Signatures are selected, all will be shown in the display panel. The Plate (if in use), Sheet and Pages
settings can be edited to make mass changes to all selected Signatures.
Display Panel
Signatures selected from the list are displayed in this panel, with all Plate, Sheet and layout properties as defined in the
configuration panels visually represented. If multiple signatures (or pages) are selected, differing parameter values will
be shown by bold, underlined field titles in the configuration panels.
The display panel is interactive and is used to:
• Select one or more individual “pages” within a signature for editing in
the Pages panel;
• Select pages for grouping or ungrouping, pairing, or page offset;
• Show where pages of multi-­‐selected signatures fit within a publication
in a bottom Page Navigator panel. Pages belonging to the signatures are
shown in green; pages from non-­‐selected signatures are shown in red;
doubled-­‐up pages are shown in purple. Selecting all signatures makes it
simple to check the integrity of the Signature Group.
• Select a page from the Page Navigator to highlight which signature it belongs to.
When viewing multiple signatures, the thumbnail sizes can be increased or decreased with the cmd+/-­‐ keys (Mac) or
ctrl+/-­‐ (Win).
Plate
Turn the Plate options on or off by selecting the Use Plate tick box.
The Plate settings are:
• Width
• Height
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