Hi Eric,
That sounds right. Essentially what I have is an 8pp saddle stitched booklet, the front and back cover of which requires personalisation.
All sections are pre-printed on a litho press. Section 1 (pp8 and pp1) is then overprinted with the address data, project reference and a barcode. What I'd like to do is just take pages 8 and 1 and impose them in the same way that they will have been imposed when the job was run on press - pp8 on the left pp1 on the right. The two sections are then collated and stitched to give an 8pp booklet with personalisation to the front and back pages.
I'm struggling a little bit to understand how or why this is beyond the scope of FP Imposer. This has to be one of the most basic forms of imposition, no?!
I can do what I want if I insert two blank pages and use on of the built-in templates but I then have to delete every other page in the resulting PDF, or just print the odd pages in that same file. No an elegant solution as it introduces the possibility of human-error which negates the reason for using FusionPro Desktop in the first place - I'd just be shifting the area of the job where the potential problems could arise...