Acrobat Preflight Documentation

[Donald_Rossi@adobeforums.com]

Does anyone know where I can find more information explaining the results of Acrobat Preflight?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Unfortunately, a lot of the things checked for are very technical and
you may end up needing detailed PDF internals knowledge. On the other
hand, if you don't understand the results the chances are you don't
need to check for it (unless it's someone else's profile).

Can you give some examples of things of which you want more
explanation?

Aandi Inston

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

It would help to start with which version of Acrobat Professional/Pro you're using. And have you already looked at Acrobat Help articles (much improved in Acrobat 8 Professional and Acrobat 9 Pro)?

[Donald_Rossi@adobeforums.com]

I am working with Acrobat 8 Professional. I haven't seen 9 yet. The Preflight is much better in 8 (compared to 7). But, in a way, its more frustrating. I feel like Adobe has taken me and shown me the promised land but won't let me cross over.

For me, the promised land would be the ability to Preflight a PDF, find true problems and automatically print out a report that identifies the object and it's problem. If I could script the printing of summarized comments in Acrobat, I'd be happy.

My most recent example was from Maximum Ink Density. I made a custom check with: max. amount of ink for image 321 +/- 0 AND Object is outside Bleed box is not true. Preflighting one PDF found two images with pixels greater than 320 max ink. But it wasn't a significant amount. In the results, under "Trigger Values", I see something like "Max amount of ink for image: 220". I was wondering if that 220 number is the average or mean max ink for the image.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat 9 Pro handles ink densities measurements better than previous versions because it actually renders the whole page, including any transparency, and gets an accurate Total Ink Coverage.

[Michael Kazlow]

Donald,

Place your request where it will do the most good.

<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform>

Mike

[Donald_Rossi@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Mike, I used your link.