With Roman text, the Character Inspector can also be used to alter the position of characters in a word interactively (here “YSL”). For this example you only need one text object with three characters which you can move. This saves having several text objects or time-consuming character spacing and baseline offset settings.
Character Inspector (1)
VivaDesigner supports ALL languages and writing directions. With the Character Inspector, the position of so-called “dia-critical characters” can be corrected manually. This is particularly useful for example in Arabic, where words may contain many “dia-critical characters”.
Multilingual Text Editing
Editing of ALL languages AND writing directions in one single uniform application and document format (incl. Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
Headers & Footers
Define headers and footers for each text object in any height. Work with Running Titles in several levels that show the first and last occurrence or a character string in the headers or footers. Enter Endnotes and define their position (End of text or end of layout). Use the integrated footnote management with extensive options for numbering, separators, columns and position.
Optical Alignment
Improve the display of your text with the automatic optical alignment that can be applied to any character. Create Drop Caps in any size and optimize the typography with an automatic runaround of the Drop Cap shape. Display characters with a colored outline.
VivaImpose: Millions of publications. One program.
What is VivaImpose?
VIVAIMPOSE is the leading tool for automatic digital imposition. Already on the market since 1995, the program has since then been setting new standards in speed, safety, flexibility and functionality.
Developed in co-operation with leading printers in both sheet-fed and web offset, VIVAIMPOSE is able to process documents with a speed and precision which has never before been achieved. It’s no wonder then that millions of publications are produced with VIVAIMPOSE every year. Our customers produce books, brochures, newspapers and magazines, catalogues and much more for countless industrial customers such as Microsoft, Audi, etc. and naturally for publishers such as Rowohlt, Fischer, Piper, Ullstein, Springer, Klett, Carlsen and many others. Therefore you will surely at least once have held a printed product in your hand which our software helped to produce!
How does VivaImpose work?
From the very beginning VIVA has followed a completely new and revolutionary path in electronic imposition.
The starting point for the development was that our customers wanted to be able to manage the complex technology as simply as possible. Just three simple steps are necessary in the Workstation Version of VIVAIMPOSE to process a job completely in just a few minutes: data import, imposition and output. Only one step is necessary in the Server Version of VIVAIMPOSE to complete a job in seconds: to transfer data to the server, which delivers the imposition fully automatically.
Partners
Sales Partners for the whole VIVA product range
A&F Computersysteme AG (Switzerland/Germany)

For 30 years, the Swiss systems integrator A&F Computersysteme AG has been a proven expert for publishing solutions. Therefore A&F has now also officially included VIVA’s solutions in its portfolio. With VIVA solutions, A&F offers its customers completely new possibilities and With the VIVA solutions, AF offers its customers completely new possibilities and completes its portfolio in the areas of corporate/cloud publishing, web-to-print and database publishing.
SoftwareONE
SoftwareONE helps customers manage their software portfolio efficiently. With its headquarters in Switzerland (Stans) and branches in 145 countries, 3000 technology consultants help customers optimize their software portfolio on a daily basis. The consultants have extensive technical and commercial know-how and have a broad knowledge of (and relationships with) all major software houses.
Sales Partners for Research & Education (EDU)
Cobra GmbH (Germany)
cobra GmbH has positioned itself in the education sector. Software, equipment and more to the education stage especially for school and education. Cobra is the portal for teachers, lecturers, pupils, students, course participants as well as schools and educational institutions for software and selected hardware to the “education tariff”. Educational institutions as well as their teachers and pupils, students as well as seminar participants can save up to 90% on product prices at www.cobra-shop.de (in relation to the purchase of the software or the device at the regular price (recommended retail price of the respective manufacturer).
Co.Tec GmbH (Germany)
For 26 years, the company has been making education digital. As a leading German trading company in the field of education, co.Tec offers over 157,000 customers a broad, educational high-quality range of PC and Mac software as well as hardware for school, education and further education. The Rosenheim company is thus the contact point for schools and teachers when it comes to digitalisation or hardware and software equipment for the schools.
c&H GmbH (Germany)
As a distributor for research and educational products, c&H Ausbildungsmedien Distribution GmbH is a competent and reliable logistics centre for software manufacturers. c&H’s tasks include constant contact and close cooperation with manufacturers, the definition of school products (school prices and license forms) as well as the appropriate “refining” of standard software products. The broad distribution of the research and teaching products takes place via their own distribution channel to authorized school product businesses.
Software Integration
Printplus AG (MIS, Management Information Software)’]

Printplus AG is the leading supplier of branch software for printers and publishers (MIS, Management Information Software). The Swiss market leader for MIS-Software (Management Information Software) has 40 employees in sales, organisation consulting and software development. Printplus is in use daily with more than 400 customers and over 5000 workstations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
VIVA Integration
With standard interfaces, the PrintPlus printer portal DRUCK and VIVA are completely integrated for the users. They have the possibility of creating all their layouts with VivaDesigner, from business cards to a multi-page employee magazine.
The templates created in VivaDesigner are directly integrated in the printer portal. Here the user selects the product, completes the layout in VivaDesigner and puts it in the shopping basket of Printplus DRUCK.
Depending on the task and the working method, the documents may be created graphically in the browser with the “VivaDesigner Web Edition” or in form mode with the “VivaNWP Designer”. Both interfaces are included in the standard interface of Printplus DRUCK.
O/R/T (MMS, Marketing Management Software)

O/R/T/ Medienverbund is a classical service provider with its own software development, covering the complete spectrum of Pre-Press, Print and Post-Print as well as developing database workflow tools for their customers. For many years, O/R/T/ Krefeld has been providing the catalog print data for the tour operator Alltours in Düsseldorf. With Viva’s support, Alltours catalogs are produced by O/R/T/ using the Viva Network Publishing technology.
VIVA Integration
O/R/T has integrated the VIVA Publishing Server technology in its MMS (Marketing Management System), with which users can create documents fully automatically with a single keystroke.
Noxum GmbH (Content Management and Publishing System)

Noxum develops and markets standard and individual software for Web systems/Web portals, E-Business, Product Information Management, Cross Media Publishing and technical communication as well as Cloud Computing solutions in Microsoft Azure. The Noxum Publishing Studio combines an XML-based system solution with a content management and publishing system in one product. As one of the leading suppliers of XML solutions, Noxum provides not only consulting but also the development, implementation and support.
VIVA Integration
The Noxum Publishing Studio can read, interpret and manage a VIVA XML document. Furthermore, the software is able to create completely new documents based on the VIVA XML format.
Spirit GmbH (Business Processing Software)
Spirit Packaging Premedia GmbH offers manufacturers of consumer goods and packaging materials pre-press services, analyses and optimizes work flows, works out technical standards and adapts business processing software applications, thus creating a complete integrated solution for its partner corporations.
VIVA Integration
Spirit has integrated the VIVA Publishing Server technology in its business processing software to create print-ready documents straight from the application.
System Requirements
General requirements for desktop versions
- Computer with a present multi-core processor (recommended not older than 3-4 years).
- A 64 Bit operating system.
- Computer mouse or touchpad or pen.
- 1 GB of available hard disk space.
- 1 GB of free RAM, 2 GB of free RAM or more recommended.
- 32-bit video card with 1 GB RAM. 2 GB or more recommended.
- Monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080 or more. UHD Screens (i.e. Retina-Displays) are supported. Please refer to the technical hints using multiple monitors with different resolutions.
- USB 2.0 port for optional hardware protection of the operation of the software.
- Internet connection and email address for registration, upgrading and operation of the software. After registration the internet connection is not permanently necessary.
*Note: Installation on other versions of the mentioned operating systems are possible but NOT officially supported.
Windows desktop version
- VIVA Version 11.x:
Microsoft Windows 10 to Windows 11, each 64-Bit and with the latest Service Pack installation*.
- VIVA Version 10.x:
Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 11, each 64-Bit and with the latest Service Pack installation*.
- VIVA Version 9.x:
Microsoft Windows Vista to Windows 10, each with the latest Service Pack installation*.
- VIVA Version 8.x:
Microsoft Windows Vista to Windows 10, each with the latest Service Pack installation*.
- VIVA Version 7.x:
Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 10 each with the latest Service Pack installation*.
macOS desktop version (Intel or Apple “M” processor)
- VIVA Version 11.x:
macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) to macOS 15 (Sequoia), each with the latest version*.
- VIVA Version 10.x :
OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) to macOS 12 (Monterey), each with the latest version*.
- VIVA Version 9.x:
OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) to macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), each with the latest version*.
- VIVA Version 8.x:
OS X 10.7 to 10.12*.
- VIVA Version 7.x:
OS X 10.6.8 to 10.12*.
Linux desktop version
- VIVA Version 11.x (64-Bit, AppImage):
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS
Mint 18-22 LTS
Debian 9-11,
openSUSE 42.3 (Leap) and 15.1 (Leap).
- VIVA Version 10.x (64-Bit, AppImage):
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to 19.04 LTS
Mint 17-19 LTS
Debian 8-10
openSUSE 42.3 (Leap) and 15.1 (Leap)
- VIVA Version 9.x (64-Bit, AppImage):
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 15.10, 16.04 LTS
Mint 17 LTS
Debian 7 & 8
openSUSE 42.2 (Leap)*.
- VIVA Version 7.x/8.x/9.x:
32-Bit: Debian 7, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, Mint 17 LTS*.
64-Bit: Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 15.10, 16.04 LTS, Mint 17 LTS*.
General requirements for Web-Browser version
- Computer with a present multi-core processor (recommended not older than 3-4 years).
- An actual version of Firefox or Chrome. Edge, Safari or Opera are possible but not officially supported.
- 32-bit video card with 1 GB RAM. 2 GB or more recommended.
- Monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080 or more.
Ultra High Definition (UHD) Screens (i.e. Retina-Displays) are supported (from version 10).
Please refer to the technical hints using multiple monitors with different resolutions. - Internet connection with at least 20 Mbit/s or more (50 Mbit/s or more recommended).
System Requirements Server
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Important Note: VivaDesigner 9 is supplied as a 32-Bit and as a 64-Bit application version. When a full version is ordered, both versions will be supplied. When you download a Free Edition or a Demo version of VivaDesigner 9, only the 64-Bit version will be supplied. With all other versions (7.1, 8.0) a 32-Bit version will be supplied in all cases.
Visual Image Preflight
With the VivaDesigner Preflight option you can define the minimum resolution and tolerance for printing images. VivaDesigner automatically displays colored frames around images that either will not be printed correctly (red) or are within the tolerance (yellow). In this way even a beginner can see directly where there will be printing problems with a specific image scaling.