Hi: I’m a prospective customer with your demo on a new Macbook Pro,  trying to confirm I can use it to prepare PDF archives of aircraft logbooks. The original scans go back many years, and the originals include pages of various sizes and orientations, often including tags much smaller than US Letter size which is our intended final format (for hard copy use). I’m usually dealing with 60-80 original PDF pages in a log.

I’ve attempted impositions of a single row/column inside printer margins, but this usually ends up blanking the screen - clearly I’m not experienced at correctly combining the screen/page/margin capabilities you provide.

Can you explain how to approach this using PDFClerk tools? I’m ready to purchase if the capability is there.

Thanks,

Let me first establish that I understand you correctly:
- Your intended final format is US Letter size.
- Within that you want scans of different size, supposedly without scaling and centred on the page.
- You want a single scan per sheet side.

Are the assumptions above all correct? (If not please explain.)

I’m pretty sure PDFClerk Pro can do what you want, but I need to be sure of what you’re trying to achieve to be able to guide you.

Thanks for the prompt response:

To clarify: I want to end up with a PDF master file of 8.5x11 pages (US Letter) with all component PDF pages scaled up from their various sized original scans to US letter size (within printer margins). No single scaling factor will work, because many of the original scans were done to end up as US letter size already. However some are much smaller.

Once the master file of US letter size pages is archived, I could also use your software to create 2-page per sheet smaller copies which could be useful (for instance to send to prospective aircraft purchasers).

It appeared to me that the Imposition function should work for this, but so far none of my newbie attempts have proven successful.

This is not preparation for high quality printing, just for legibility and consistency if we print hard copy archives. FYI Aircraft Logs may go back decades, and there is considerable value in having legible copies of work done, ID of parts installed, and inspections completed even if original documents are lost.

Thanks much

Apologies for the delay in answering.

If I understand correctly, the default one up imposition already does what you want. It will scale any source page up or down proportionately to fit the target sheet. You can specify printer margins on an individual document basis in the document settings dialog, under the Impositions tab. However, since it looks like you will use the same imposition for many different source documents, it may be more efficient to create a specific imposition template which already includes those margins. For that you would make a new imposition template and change only these items:
- Under the Slot Layout tab change the Slot Fit to Proportionate.
- Under the sheet metrics tab set the sheet size to 8.5x11 inches and enter the desired margins for both odd and even sheets.

Now, each time you have assembled the logs you want to gather into a single document, you simply switch to the imposition and your document is ready for PDF generation.

Thanks, Antonio -

This works fine for me now. I’m ordering the software today and thank you for your help.
kentowl