Adobe ACROBAT 3D Manual page 665

Using droplets
A droplet in Preflight is a small application that runs a Preflight inspection on one or more
PDF files that you drag onto the Droplet icon
desktop or to another location on disk.
When you inspect files using a droplet, you can separate successful files from problem
files. Preflight either copies, moves, or creates an alias of the resulting PDF file in the
specified folder. You can also automatically create reports on these files.
To create a droplet to run a preflight inspection:
1. Set up the preflight profile you want to use, and make sure that it is listed in the Preflight
dialog box. (See
2. In the Preflight dialog box, choose Create Preflight Droplet from the Options menu.
3. Choose a Preflight profile from the pop-up menu.
4. In the On Success section, do the following:
Select the check box to the left of the pop-up menu and choose what you want Preflight to
do with any files that pass inspection.
To create a report of the results, select the reporting option for the folder, and click
Settings to specify the type of report and amount of detail. For more information on report
settings, see
Click Success Folder, and specify the folder for the PDF files that pass inspection and
their reports.
5. In the On Error section, do the following:
Select the check box to the left of the pop-up menu, and choose what you want Preflight
to do with any files that fail inspection.
Specify reporting options.
Click Error Folder, and specify the folder for the PDF files that fail inspection and their
reports.
If desired, select the option to display a summary of the files with problems.
6. Click Save. Specify a name and location, and click Save again.
To use a droplet to process files:
To use a droplet, drag a PDF file or folder onto the Droplet icon
If Preflight is not currently running, the droplet starts the application. The files are
inspected and saved in the specified folders.
Editing an existing preflight
Creating reports.
. You can save a droplet on the
profile.)
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