Creating & imposing a calendar in preps 6

[meridian]

I have 28 page s/c oblong calendar (13w x 10h) running on 80lb. cover stock. I have to apply creep so the center sections do not push out too far and distort the grids. The job is binding as 8's sheetwise. I could not use a conventional 8 PG 2x2 folding pattern because, being oblong the heads were @ the conventional fold and the creep would not work properly. I did get a folding pattern to work by rotating the binding edge 0/180, but then had to rotate the pages in my run list 90/270 to compensate. IT WAS VERY PAINFUL. Does anyone have an easier solution?

[mike1]

When imposing calendars, due to the fact that the pages have to back up head to foot, which means the pages have to be rotated anyway, I always rotate the pages first in acrobat (90 CCW for all but the back cover & 90 CW for the back cover) then process the job as a normal portrait book.

I have played around with a rule to do this, but the only way I have been able to do it with rules is to generate 2 jobs. The first job refines the pages and uses APA to assign and rotate, then creates a single page vector PDF which is directed to a smart hot folder which creates a second job as a portrait saddle stitched book.

[dpcurry]

I second mike1's method of using standard portrait layouts and rotating the pages 90 degrees, except I apply the rotation in the Run List rather than in Acrobat.

[mike1]

The reason I rotate in Acrobat is then you can use a Smart Hot Folder / Rule combination to process the job.

I've found that, if you apply the rotation in APA, and then impose using a rule with imposition intent, the rotated pages revert to no rotation in the imposition, so the only way I have found to do this without rotating first is to have a Smart Hot Folder which refines, creates a pageset and applies the rotation in APA, then creates a vector PDF of the pageset with the rotation intact, with the target being a second Smart Hot Folder which does the final imposition etc.

However, the original posters query was regarding creep, so that eliminates the use of rules to do the impo, especially if scaling the creep. Unless anybody has come up with a way to calculate and apply scaled creep within a rule

[meridian]

Thanx Mike & Dan, I'll give this a try

Jeanne