What a Quite Imposing alternative has to do
- Get the pages in the right place for saddle stitching and perfect binding, with fold schemes you can check before you plate.
- Keep the artwork intact: place pages as vectors, never rasterise.
- Cover the everyday layouts: n-up, step and repeat, cut and stack, gang-up and tiling.
- Handle creep, bleed and marks without hand-editing.
- Not get in the way: no plug-in to install into another program, no server to set up.
How Print Imposition compares with Quite Imposing
| Quite Imposing | Metre2 Print Imposition | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in | Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro (Windows or Mac), as a plug-in | Your browser, on Windows, Mac or Linux; nothing to install |
| Booklets and signatures | ✓ | ✓, with a folding dummy that checks every scheme |
| N-up and step and repeat | ✓ | ✓ (2-up, 4-up and step and repeat free) |
| Cut and stack | ✓ | ✓ (Pro) |
| Creep | ✓ (Trim & Shift) | ✓ (Pro), from the paper caliper |
| Gang-up of different jobs by quantity | Not as an optimiser | ✓ (Pro): slots shared by quantity, plans compared |
| See the sheet as you set it up | Applied as steps to the document | Live sheet view, front, back and ghosted |
| Preflight | Via Acrobat | Built in: bleed, fonts, RGB, image resolution |
| Variable data and hot folders | Quite Hot Imposing (from £3,099 + VAT) | Not yet |
| Price | £699 + VAT per licence (Oct 2025), plus Acrobat | Free; Pro £14.99 a month or £129 a year inc. VAT |
Where Quite Imposing is still the right tool
If you already work in Acrobat all day, Quite Imposing's automation sequences save a run of commands to use again on later jobs, and Quite Hot Imposing adds hot folders and variable data for automated, unattended work. Print Imposition doesn't do hot folders or variable data yet.
Price
Quite Software lists Quite Imposing Plus 6 at £699 ex VAT for a single licence (prices correct as of October 2025), and it needs a full copy of Adobe Acrobat, Standard or Pro; the free Acrobat Reader won't do. Metre2 Print Imposition is free for booklets up to 32 pages on SRA3, 2-up, 4-up and step and repeat, with no watermark. Print Imposition Pro is £14.99 a month or £129 a year including VAT, with a 7-day free trial.