66. About PreflightingIf you plan on having your PDF document printed commercially, you should be sure to preflight it. Preflighting is the process of checking your document against a list of user -defined rules. Preflighting lets you verify that your PDF document contains all the features, fonts, and formatting you want and none that you do not. It analyzes a document to ensure that it is ready to be printed based on predefined settings for various output processes, a settings file you get from your print professional, or custom settings you define. For example, a preflight profile called Newspaper Ads verifies whether a PDF file can be processed as a display ad for a newspaper. Another preflight profile, Digital Press (B/W) , verifies whether a PDF file can be processed on a digital press allowing only black and white. Traditionally, preflighting was something you did to your source document before converting it to PDF and sending it to a commercial printer. With Acrobat 6 Professional, preflighting became a feature of Acrobat, allowing you to preflight documents from a variety of sources consistently and efficiently . In addition to approximately 50 preset profiles, Acrobat also has the capability to import and export preflight profiles. This allows you to receive a profile from your print professional (via its website, email, or disk), import it into Acrobat, and use it to preflight your document to ensure it will print correctly. |