ReadySetPDF 3.5
See website for smaller revision updates - current: 3.53
Professional prepress for Windows. Version 3.5
What’s new in 3.5
Variable Data (Mail Merge / Stamp)
The VDP tab is a visual layout editor, not a coordinate form.
- Spreadsheet headers from CSV or Excel become sidebar tags (
<<Column>>). - Template preview shows the same page as the Real-Time Monitor. Use ◀ Page / Page ▶ or the mouse wheel; tags on page 2 stay on page 2 of every copy.
- Place fields by selecting a tag and clicking the template. Drag to move; right-click, Delete, or X to remove. Fields may hang past the trim so you can park a block in the bleed.
- Click Preview for a low-resolution merged-data window before you add the step to the stack.
- Output page count is template pages × rows that actually contain merge data. Blank spreadsheet rows are skipped. A 2-page postcard and 10 filled rows produce 20 pages (1, 2, 1, 2, …).
Address Block
City / State / ZIP no longer stack as three separate lines.
- Address Block… opens a setup window. Left labels are Field 1–4; the dropdowns are the spreadsheet column names (no duplicated labels).
- City, State, and ZIP sit on one line, formatted
City, ST ZIP. - The whole block is one object on the template. Double-click it to edit the column map.
- Headers such as Name, Address, City, State, and ZIP are guessed when the window opens; you can change any dropdown.
Rotate
- Rotation swaps the page box (90° / 270°). Pages are no longer scaled or cropped into the original width × height.
- Target All, Odd / Front, Even / Back, or a page list.
Grid and live preview
- On the Grid, Cutter, and Rotate tabs, the Real-Time Monitor updates while you edit, before you add the step to the stack.
- Column and row counts accept a comma or a period as the decimal separator.
Cutter / finishing marks
- Keep L-marks in all four corners, or add Round Dots (all corners), Registration Cross, or Registration L (one chosen corner).
- Target All, Odd / Front, or Even / Back for duplex collating.
Custom page sizes and locale
- Enter width × height as portrait (short × long). Landscape is the per-tool checkbox.
- Decimals may use
,or.(8,5and8.5both work). Do not type thousand separators. - Edit, Up, and Down reorder or change saved sizes without deleting them.
OCR
- Export CSV and Export TXT are on the OCR tab (you no longer have to save a PDF recipe first).
- Oversized scan rasters are downsampled before Tesseract so large pages no longer fail with a leptonica size error.
Preview rulers
- Rulers follow the PDF page box (true trim size). They are not scaled from image DPI.
Tabs and UI
- Hover any tab for a short explanation of that tool.
- Footer and window title show Rev 3.5.