Edit and assemble entire documents before RIPping the files with EFI's server-based imposition application based on Adobe® Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF). Recent improvements in DocBuilder Pro (DBP) include performance gains of up to 70% and support for mixed page sizes.

DocBuilder Pro brings powerful and affordable imposition technology to corporations, service bureaus, and designers - virtually anyone who publishes. For novices as well as pre-press professionals, the easy-to-use "what you see is what you get" graphical user interface simplifies creation of imposed print jobs and gang ups on digital color printing devices.

• Job previews at a pre-RIP level save time             
• Powerful imposition capabilities eliminate need for third-party software         
• Easy to print a wide variety of documents                                 
• Platform, application, and file format independent                                  
• Efficient features save time, paper, and toner                                  
• Templates for custom and re-occurring formats facilitate consistency                                  
• Pre-flighting capabilities allow pre-production error checking 

Features (Version 1.5)

Mixed Page Support
Imposition can be performed under two different modes depending on the nature of the print job. DBP 1.5 checks the print job for its page size. If a print job consists of pages of the same size, imposition will be performed under Fixed Page Size mode. If the print job contains pages of different sizes or orientation, imposition will then be performed using Mixed Page Size mode.

Negative Gutter Sizes
In addition to positive gutter size, users can enter negative gutter sizes. Negative gutter sizes can be used to eliminate white page margins between imposed pages. The feature is especially helpful when creating tri-fold, gatefold, or z-fold brochures where white page margins between pages may be undesirable. It is also possible to create a page spread where a continuous image or design is divided and located in two separate pages.

Customizable Trim Marks/Fold Marks
Enable and Disable individual crop marks or fold marks within both page and layout view. 

User definable trim marks/ fold marks properties. User can define color, length, width, and types (solid and dotted) for trim / fold marks independently.

Adjustable positive and negative distance of crop marks from the page.

Right Edge Binding
DocBuilder Pro now supports a right-edge binding method, which is often used by many countries outside of North America. The Right Edge Binding feature also imposes pages in a document in reverse order. 

Add, Delete, and Duplicate Sheets
Add a blank sheet to a specific location. Pages on a blank sheet are editable. Delete an imposed sheet from a specific location. Imposed sheets can be duplicated and inserted at a specific location.

Gang-Up Unique Collate
Pages on an imposed sheet are ordered in a manner that causes them to fall into easily collated page order when the sheets are collated in a stack and cut into individual pages. Both duplex and simplex are supported.  

Late Editing
DocBuilder Pro 1.5 is bundled with a PitStop plug-in from Enfocus Software. PitStop provides interactive text, color, graphics and a variety of other late PDF editing capabilities.  

Enhanced Template
In addition to version 1.0 capability, DocBuilder Pro version 1.5 templates can store the following imposition attributes:  

• Rotation setting for each page                               
• Alignment setting for each page                                  
• Custom trim / fold mark properties                                  
• Fit to width, height scaling information