Overview
Why you should complete this activity
This activity introduces the Advanced Preflight feature in a Prinergy system. Advanced Preflight uses profiles to evaluate input files to detect problems that may affect processing in a publishing or prepress workflow.
This activity is important because it illustrates how to:
- Create a preflight profile
- Refine input files using preflight profiles
- Review preflight reports
Important: Preflight Profiles is a licensed feature. Before completing this activity, determine if this feature is available as part of your Prinergy system.
What you'll need
For this activity you need to locate:
Prinergy Activity Practice Files / Act_07_Preflight
What you need to know
With PDF Preflight, you can, during the refine process, evaluate PDF pages to detect problems that may affect processing in a publishing or prepress workflow.
PDF Preflight uses profiles to compare the PDF files to a number of criteria. Each profile represents a collection of settings that is checked during the refine process.
You must use the Preflight+ Profile Manager to add a preflight profile before preflighting PDF pages.
The PDF Preflight section of a refine process template defines the profile used to check for errors and defines how to handle those errors.
Process template used:
- Refine process template: Refine > Refine > 1st Ref-Normz