Apogee Impose provides a choice of automatic mode (Auto Impose) or interactive or manual mode for creating your imposition. You choose Auto Impose if your imposition rules have been set in advance for a typical job, and interactive if you want to create the imposition manually from scratch.

If your job has been set up correctly with an Impose Task Processor, you will see the following two buttons in the Imposition pane of the Products tab:

Clicking the Auto Impose button for automatic imposition, opens the Auto Impose editor in the Print & Fold tab, where you can select the Press, Press Sheet size, and Workstyle for each part type (Cover, Plain, Insert, etc.). By default, all part types are selected, so you specify the same settings for all parts. You select the Auto Impose Rule that defines the arrangement of the imposition in the Rules tab.

You then review the imposition in the Product View.

Clicking Edit Imposition in the Auto Impose editor takes you directly to the Product View where you can create your imposition interactively or still choose to open the Auto Impose editor.

The following sections give an overview of the Auto Impose windows, the two main views, and the palettes you see once you have defined your Product and choose to view or edit the imposition: