On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:09:53 +1000
"Ryan Bourne" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to make use of PodofoImpose, and it is failing on all PDFs
> exported from InDesign that include a duplicated image.
> 
> It produces a corrupt pdf that only has the first instance of the
> image displaying. I have attached the files to reproduce this as well
> as the corrupt output file.

"podofoimpose" is so badly broken in its handling of images as to be
unusable with any PDF file that contains them. See also here:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/podofo/view.php?id=28

I filed this bug over a year ago, and there has been no response since,
so there doesn't seem to be much interest in making this program
functional.

I'm working on a much better PDF imposition program, based on the PoDoFo
library, and using Ruby, rather than Lua, as its layout specification
language.

It will allow the insertion of specific PDF operators into the output
page description. This makes possible any arbitrary geometric
transformation of the input pages (rotations, shears, differential
scaling, etc.)

It also means that any desired typographic symbols, such as registration
marks and colour bars, can be programmed directly in the layout
specification, without having to be imported from a pre-existing PDF
file.

All of the above is currently functional; I'm now working on
automatically computing how a binding signature should be laid out on
the printer sheet, according to the specified folding sequence.


-- Ian Bruce


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