Choose from the list of output conditions—the description appears in the Output Condition box—or choose Custom and create your own. The URL giving more information about the output intent profile name. 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.
This option is a safeguard against accidental modification of the output intent. All the text fields are dimmed. The Highlighting tab includes options for identifying problem objects on a PDF page. The Highlighting preferences control the appearance of masks in mask reports. They also control 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. Problems Highlighted By Transparent Masks. Identifies the problems by highlighting them. If this option is deselected, non-problematic content is highlighted and problem content is not highlighted. Click Color to choose colors from a color spectrum. Specify the opacity of the color. 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 option is useful for identifying objects in a mask report when an image occupies the entire page. Click Line Style to select the line pattern lines, dots, or dashes.
Specify the line width thickness. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool Acrobat Pro Search.
Adobe Acrobat User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:. On this page About preflight inspections The Preflight dialog box Run a preflight inspection Preflight preferences. About preflight inspections. Before you use the Preflight tool or create a PDF for print, follow these recommendations:. The Preflight dialog box. Preflight dialog box. Run a preflight inspection. You can use or modify an existing profile, or create your own.
Select any library from the Libraries drop-down list. Do one of the following:. Use the menu to specify if you want to view all, your favorites, most recently used, most frequently used, or one of the available categories. Specify a page range for the inspection. Preflight preferences. General tab. Output intent options. Output Condition Identifier. Optional Select a profile or single check, expand Further Options and do any of the following, as needed:.
Specify whether to limit the inspection to visible layers. Selecting this option disables any fixups. If you selected a profile, click Analyze to run the inspection without fixing the errors or Analyze And Fix to identify and fix the problems. If you selected a single check only, the Analyze option is available. If you selected a single fixup, click Fix to start a fixup.
Note: You can also double-click a profile in the list to run the preflight inspection. If you double-click the file, profiles that contain fixups apply the fixups.
The General tab includes options for specifying how dialog box elements and preflight results are displayed:. Specifies how many instances of a mismatch appear in the Results list. The maximum number of results for a document is Specifies how much detail appears in the Preflight Results list. You can specify no details, only important details, or all details. Displays a Warning icon at the top of the Preflight dialog box if the display is not set to the highest quality. You can click the Warning icon to see a list of the alerts.
Click Adjust to automatically adjust the settings for maximized reliability of the display of the selected PDF document. 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. Click Browse to select one from the default Profiles folder. 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.
The URL giving more information about the output intent profile name. 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. This option is a safeguard against accidental modification of the output intent. All the text fields are dimmed. The Highlighting tab includes options for identifying problem objects on a PDF page. The Highlighting preferences control the appearance of masks in mask reports. They also control 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. Problems Highlighted By Transparent Masks. Identifies the problems by highlighting them. If this option is deselected, non-problematic content is highlighted and problem content is not highlighted. Click Color to choose colors from a color spectrum. Specify the opacity of the color. 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 option is useful for identifying objects in a mask report when an image occupies the entire page. Click Line Style to select the line pattern lines, dots, or dashes.
