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Preflight (Acrobat Pro DC)

Last updated 4/7/2015

5 To view basic Audit Trail information, click the Standards icon in the navigation pane on the left. In the

Standards panel, do any of the following, as needed:

• To verify that the profile used on the document is the same as the profile on your local system, clickCheck Profile

Fingerprint. For example, if you asked a customer to use a specific profile, you can use this check to confirm it

was used.

• To remove the audit trail, click Remove Preflight Audit Trail and save the file.

6 To view additional Audit Trail information, choose File > Properties, and click Additional Metadata in the

Description tab. Then in the dialog box, click Advanced. In the list, expand

http://www.gwg.org/ns/gwg_preflight_v1. In addition to the basic preflight information, this list includes an

overview of results, and the date and time the profile was executed.

Note: You can overwrite an existing audit trail by embedding a new audit trail.

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Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool (Acrobat Pro DC)

About preflight profiles

The success of a preflight inspection depends on how well you define the criteria for the inspection. The inspection

criteria are packaged in a file called a preflight profile. A preflight profile includes one or more checks, fixups, or both

checks and fixups. Each check includes one or more property statements that validate the PDF content. Preflight shows

an error only if all the property statements in the check are in error. In the Preflight Edit Profile dialog box, you can

specify which values to use and how to handle mismatches. For example, you can choose a profile that simply reports

mismatches, or one that automatically fixes a mismatch according to its specified parameters. A profile with a fixup has

the filled-in gray wrench icon next to it.

Adobe Acrobat includes several predefined preflight profiles, organized into groups, such as Digital Printing, PDF

Analysis, Prepress, and PDF/A, PDF/E, or PDF/X Compliance. You can use the predefined profiles as is or modify them

to create custom profiles. The checks that make up the profiles (called rules in previous versions of Acrobat) are

organized by categories, such as Document, Pages, Images, and so on. Each check in a category governs a particular

document property.

To help you determine what document properties the preflight profile analyzes, you can review information about each

selected check in the Preflight Edit Profile dialog box. This information describes what criteria the check uses to

analyze, and possibly fix, a document property.

View profiles

1 Do one of the following:

• If the Preflight dialog box is not open, choose To o l s > Print Production > Preflight.