PLDA - Professional Layout Digital Assistant

User Guide

Page Mixer

Sometimes the pages of original document have to be reordered to achieve the desired imposition.

Page Mixer enables you to change the page order according to set of rules (i.e. some pages if the document may be duplicated, blank pages can be inserted or some pages rotated).

Number of pages in one group determines the group at which the rule is applied. Once the first group is finished, the next one is started and so on until the end of document. Enter 0 (zero) to make the group as long as the original document - rule is applied just once.

Type in the rule. The rule may contain many operators that guide the order of the pages in the new document and their orientation.

List of operators of Page Mixer:

• Operators of page orientation:
• * (asterisk) = Rotate the page by 180°.
• + (plus) = Rotate the page by 90° clockwise (right).
• - (minus) = Rotate the page by 90° anticlockwise (left).
• 0 (zero) = insert blank page.
• N = Number of pages in a group (variable).
• Deliminiter: space.
• Operators of page sequence:
• () (parenthesis) = group. Example: (1 3 2):2 = 1 3 2 1 3 2.
• T = Continuity. Example: 1T5 = 1 2 3 4 5.
• R = Reverse. Example: R(1T5) = 5 4 3 2 1.

• B = Booklet sequence. Example: B(1T8) = 8 1 2 7 6 3 4 5.

  This operator may contain a parameter: number of pages in a group.

  Syntax: B(pages, number of pages in a group). If parameter is missing, it is automatically set to number of pages in the sequence. If needed, blank pages are inserted at the end of the sequence.

  Examples:

  B(1T8) = B(1T8,8) = 8 1 2 7 6 3 4 5.

  B(1T8,4) = 4 1 2 3 8 5 6 7.

  B(1T6) = 0 1 2 0 6 3 4 5.

• S = Group Designation. Example: S(1 2 3 4 5 6) = 1 3 5 2 4 6.

  This operator may contain a parameter: number of groups.

  Syntax: S(pages, number of groups). If parameter is missing, it is automatically set to 2. If needed, blank pages are inserted at the end of the sequence.

  Example: S(1 2 3 4 5 6) = S(1 2 3 4 5 6,2) = 1 3 5 2 4 6.

  Example: S(1 2 3 4 5 6,3) = (1 4 2 5 3 6).

• Operators of repetition:
• : (colon) = Repeat collated. Example: (1 2 3):2 = 1 2 3 1 2 3.
• # (hash) = Repeat uncollated. Example: (1 2 3)#2 = 1 1 2 2 3 3.

There are 3 frequent tasks that can be done with a single click:

• Put Odd pages first, then Even pages. From document (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) will create (1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8) document.
• Reverse page order.
• Duplicate the last page so it becomes every second page . From document (1 2 3 4 5) will create (1 5 2 5 3 5 4 5) document.

All the Page Mixer rules can be saved for later use. Click SAVE and enter name and description.

You can load or delete a rule after clicking LOAD button.

Save rules can be used to set up the virtual Mixer.