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TIP 51: Basic Preflighting

Preflighting, the process of reviewing a PDF document to ensure that it meets specific printing requirements, is the traditional realm of the prepress world. But have you ever had t o prepare ads for a newspaper or a magazine? Or design brochures? Or create an annual report? I'd bet most people have had these types of experiences.

Preparing a print job, expecially one intended for prepress, can be a laborious and time-consuming process. Acrobat 7 Professional includes a suite of preflight tools you can use to evaluate your files for problems with items such as image compression and transparency.

Choose Advanced > Preflight to open the Preflight dialog (Figure 51a) and give the program a minute to load the profiles. The available testing profiles range from standards compliance options, to industry standards for magazines and newspapers, to testing for specific items such as transparency or image resolutions, to compliance with a particular version of Acrobat.

Scroll through the list to find the profile you want to use to evaluate the document. When you choose a profile, information displays in the Purpose of the selected Preflight profile section of the dialog below the list.

You don't have to preflight the entire document; click the Preflight only pages check box and type the page range you want to evaluate. Then click the Execute button and the document is tested.

The results of the analysis are shown in the Preflight dialog (