Roadmap

Here’s what is on the horizon, in terms of things we plan to build for Layout Department. Some of these features will be in the paid license. (You can also see what’s already been done in the Releases.)

Up next

• Custom paper sheet sizes

On deck after that

• Saved Layout Department files – reopen a project, duplicate an old project to create a new one.
• Saved templates with all your favorite settings.
• Custom layout builder: define your own N x N tiled layout, then place the pages in order and define the rotation for each page. Define your page, sheet gutter and position on the sheet. Custom registration marks and placements.

Also in the plans

These are not necessarily in order we’ll work on them. They also could be quite a ways out in time from being built — we’re a two person collaboration and don’t work on this full time. Still, potentially useful as a peek ahead!

• Collation marks on the spines of section/signatures
• Layout example viewer (like Spectrolite layouts section on Mac has; note that Spectrolite layouts will be going away in future versions)
• Registration marks
• 12-up (2x6, 6x2, 3x4, 4x3), 16-up (4x4, 2x8)
• Color Bars
• Accordion layouts
• French Fold covers
• Other covers with a spine (perfect bound)
• Right side spine booklet impositions
• 16-up Magic Zines (2 copies of same zine, or two zines, special layout with half as one zine with poster on back)
• Creep: Creep calculator helper tool for custom creep (add your caliper / measurement of a stack of papers) – currently instructions for doing it by hand are here. Save a custom setting for creep.
• Short-edge duplexing (currently all imposition is for long-edge duplexing)