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Customizing a Preflight Profile
Acrobat 9 Pro ships with an extensive selection of preflight profiles, but you will probably want
to create some custom profiles tailored to your needs. For example, there is a profile to check for
images below 250 ppi, but there is no prebuilt profile to check for images below 300 ppi, which
is the customary desired image resolution for commercial print. So you may want to create a
custom preflight profile just to check for images that fall below the desired 300 ppi resolution.
You can combine multiple checks within one profile; you're not limited to checking for just one
potential issue. You can create, edit, and delete custom profiles. You can also export profiles to
share with your workgroup or send to customers, and import profiles to add to your preflight list
by using the buttons at the bottom of the Edit Profile dialog box.
To edit a preflight profile and save it as a custom profile for future use:
1. Choose Create New Preflight Profile from the Preflight panel menu. A list of profiles appears
in the lefthand pane, with a row of edit buttons below the list. If this is the first new custom
profile you have created, the Custom profiles category is created, and your new profile is listed
in the category as New Profile 1. You may find it easier to select an existing profile and click
the Duplicate Profile button (
under the same category as the profile you've duplicated.
New Profile
Duplicate Profile
Preflight Profile Edit Buttons: To create, edit, delete, import, and export profiles, use the buttons at the
bottom of the Edit dialog box .
2. Enter a name and update the description to reflect the attributes; this will help you and your
customers identify what the profile is used for.
3. In the left column, select the attributes you want to edit, such as Images, Fonts, or Colors.
4. Click the button next to the problem you want to identify and enter a value, if appropriate. For
example, if you want to identify any images with a resolution lower than 300 ppi, click the Im-
ages option under the profile name, and type 300 in the "pixels per inch" box in the right side
of the dialog box. Choose what kind of response the profile will yield by choosing an option
from the pop-up menu to the left of the entry:
Preflight Alert
Options: Choose the
type of alert you want
a Preflight profile to
display .
• Error: Lets you know a file has failed preflight.
• Info: Reports on conditions found during preflight without implying any error.
Consequently, the PDF isn't regarded as "failing" the preflight test.
• Warning: Uses a yellow alert triangle to call your attention to conditions in the PDF
that, while not constituting a failure of the preflight test, may be of concern in some
workflow situations.
• Inactive: Prevents the profile from checking the attribute.
Make any other changes to the profile; choose Locked to prevent accidental changes.
Click Summary in the left pane to see a summary of the errors that the profile will identify.
7 Click OK. Acrobat adds the new profile to the list.
). If you duplicate a profile, the new profile will be stored
Delete Profile
Import Profile
Export Profile
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