Preflight preferences
Use the Preflight Preferences dialog box to control how results are reported and to specify output intents when creating PDF/X files. A PDF may have an embedded output intent containing an ICC profile. You can copy this profile to your computer and use it just as you would any other ICC profile.
Open the Preflight Preferences dialog box by choosing Options > Preflight Preferences. You can then use the tabs to set the preferences you want.
General tab
The General tab includes options for specifying how dialog box elements and preflight results are displayed:
- Maximum Number Of Results To Be Displayed Per Type Of Check
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Specifies how many instances of a mismatch appear in the Results list. Use the Per Page (Under “Further Matches”) option to nest additional results under the Further Matches section in the Results list.
- Degree Of Detail When Displaying Results
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Specifies how much detail appears in the Preflight Results list. You can specify no details, only important details, or all details. For example, suppose you select Show List Of Results With Most Important Details, and you select the profile “List all objects not 4c.” If your document includes five RGB images, then for each image, one single line entry will be included in the results, indicating such things as size, resolution, and color space.
Output intent options
You can set the following options on the Output Intents tab of the Preflight Preferences dialog box. For more information on using output intents, see Output intents.
- Name
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The name of the output intent.
- Output Intent Profile (ICC Profile)
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The ICC profile that describes the characterized printing condition for which the document has been prepared and is required for PDF/X-compliance. Click Browse to select one from the default Profiles folder.
- Output Condition Identifier
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The reference name specified by the ICC registry of registered standard printing conditions. Choose from the list of output conditions—the description appears in the Output Condition box—or choose Custom and create your own.
- Registry
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The URL giving more information about the output intent profile name. For the standard printing conditions registered with the ICC, this entry must be http://www.color.org/.
- Output Condition
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A description of the intended printing condition of the job, including type of printing (for example, offset commercial), paper type, and screen frequency. You can modify this description for output conditions you edit or create from scratch.
- Locked
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This option is a safeguard against accidental modification of the output intent. All the text fields are dimmed.
Highlighting tab
The Highlighting tab includes options for identifying problem objects on a PDF page. The Highlighting preferences control both the appearance of masks in mask reports and the appearance of lines on-screen when you double-click Highlighting in the Preflight Results window. You set highlighting properties for each type of alert: Error, Warning, and Info.
- Color/Opacity
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Click Color to choose colors from a color spectrum. Specify the opacity of the color.
- Draw Border For Bounding Box
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Draws the same lines in a mask report that you see on-screen when you double-click a result in the Preflight Results window. This is useful for identifying objects in a mask report when an image occupies the entire page. In this case you won’t see the mask, but you will see the lines around objects.
- Line Style/Thickness
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Click Line Style to select the line pattern (lines, dots, or dashes). Specify the line width (thickness).