Impose, mark up & export
print-ready PDFs
Booklets, N-up, step and repeat, and variable data, all built right in your browser. Your files never get uploaded. Sign in once and start in seconds.
Turn any 📄 PDF into a print-ready press sheet 🖨️. Booklets 📚, n-up cards 🪪, labels 🏷️ and gang sheets, imposed with crop marks, bleeds and color bars, right in your browser. No installs, no waiting ⏱️.
Why print pros choose ImpositionPDF
Real imposition, not PDF editing
Saddle-stitch and perfect-bound booklets, n-up, step and repeat, cut and stack and gang sheets: the print layouts generic PDF tools can't do.
Private by design
Files never leave your device. Every page is imposed locally in your browser, with nothing uploaded to a server.
No install, any browser
Open it on Mac, Windows, Linux or ChromeOS and start imposing instantly. No downloads, no plug-ins, no account required.
Print-ready in one click
Add bleed, crop, cut and registration marks automatically, so every job trims clean and goes straight to press.
Accurate CMYK color
Convert RGB to CMYK with real ICC profiles, soft-proofing and gamut warnings, so what you proof is what prints.
Every standard size
19 presets including Letter, A4, Tabloid, SRA3 and business cards, or enter any custom sheet size.
Built for every print job
From a corner copy shop to a packaging line, ImpositionPDF imposes the layout each job needs and exports a print-ready PDF.
Print shops & copy centers
Impose booklets, N-up sheets and gang runs for any digital or offset press, with crop marks and creep handled automatically.
Imposition softwareEvent & venue organizers
Print numbered, QR-coded tickets, passes and wristbands straight from a spreadsheet with variable data printing.
Ticket printingLabel & sticker printers
Step-and-repeat one label across the whole sheet with exact gaps and cut marks, ready to die-cut.
Step & repeatDesign & marketing studios
Gang business cards, flyers and brochures many-up on a single sheet, trimmed clean and ready for the press.
Card impositionSchools, churches & clubs
Turn programs, newsletters and orders of service into saddle-stitch booklets that fold and staple in the right order.
Booklet impositionZine & indie publishers
Fold an 8-page mini-zine from a single sheet. The pages reorder themselves, so one print, one fold and one cut is all it takes.
Make a zineHow to impose a PDF
To impose a PDF, you arrange its single pages onto a larger press sheet in the exact order and position your printer needs. ImpositionPDF does it right in your browser.
Add your PDF
Open ImpositionPDF in your browser and add the PDF or images you want to impose.
Choose an imposition layout
Pick booklet, N-up grid, or step & repeat to gang up cards, labels and stickers.
Set the sheet details
Choose page size, margins, gutters and bleed, and add crop, cut or registration marks.
Preview and export
Check the live press-sheet preview, fix the page order, then export a print-ready PDF, processed locally with nothing uploaded.
Loved by prepress and print teams
Designers, copy centres and print shops who moved to ImpositionPDF from Quite Imposing, pdfsnake, Imposition Wizard and other desktop imposers.
Our shop used to keep one seat of desktop imposition software just for booklets. We cancelled it. ImpositionPDF handles the saddle-stitch and N-up jobs in the browser and the whole counter team can use it.
I lay out comic and manga interiors and the page order always tripped up the printer. Now I drop one PDF, pick right-to-left, and the signatures come out correct the first time.
Ganging business cards used to mean fighting with a template. I set the card size and bleed, it fills the sheet with cut marks, and I send it straight to the cutter. Wish it remembered my presets.
The live preview is the whole thing for me. I can see creep and bleed problems before I burn a plate instead of after. It has genuinely saved us reprints.
We run a small sticker business and step-and-repeat plus cut contours used to need an Illustrator script. Drop the art, set the grid, done — it paid for itself the first week.
Perfect-bound signatures with the spine creep handled automatically is exactly what our catalog work needed. No account required to test it either, which is how it got past our IT.
Popular imposition & prepress guides
Step-by-step tutorials and comparisons to help you impose, fold and print with confidence.
Prepress signature planning
Choose 4, 8, 16 or 32-page signatures and lay out books that fold and bind correctly.
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Do booklets, N-up and step-and-repeat in your browser, without the per-seat license cost.
Read the guideImpose your next job in the browser
Drop in a PDF, pick a layout, and export a print-ready sheet with marks and bleed. No install, no upload, no account needed to start.
Frequently asked questions
Solve all your PDF imposition needs
ImpositionPDF is browser-based PDF imposition software for print professionals. It runs entirely on your device, so customer files never leave the browser. Turn ordinary PDFs into print-ready booklets, N-up sheets, business cards, labels, tickets and gang sheets with crop and cutter marks, variable data printing and live preflight. No upload, no install. Works in any modern browser.
Imposition & layout
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