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Enfocus Instant PDF User Guide 47
Preflight Report
Problem Severity Levels Defined
The result of a preflight check is presented to you in
a preflight report. The preflight report is a PDF doc-
ument which lists all the properties in the checked
PDF document which did not comply with the set-
tings as specified in the Preflight Profile. These
deviating properties are not just reported, they also
get labeled in the preflight report. The label indi-
cates their respective severity levels.
Problem Severity Levels: Example
Suppose that some of your documents contain RGB
colors. First, you want to create PDF documents
using a PDF queue for proofing purposes, for exam-
ple printing on a laser printer. This PDF Queue may
use a specific PPD and a Preflight Profile for that
particular output device. In that case, RGB colors
are not really a problem. However, you would like
to know which PDF documents contain objects or
text in RGB color, because at a later stage, you
might want to print these documents on an offset
press. You could then use two distinctive Enfocus
PDF Queues with different Preflight Profiles to create
and preflight these PDF documents:
• A PDF Queue with a Preflight Profile for the
laser printer, which reports RGB colors as
Information
• A PDF Queue with a Preflight Profile for the
color press, which reports RGB colors as Error
See also:
• “Duplicating a PDF Queue” on page 122
Viewing a Preflight Report
You can view the preflight report in the review
stage of the Certified PDF workflow. If the checked
PDF document has deviations from the Preflight
Profile, the preflight report can be displayed auto-
matically on top of the PDF document itself.
See also:
• Managing Jobs > “Reviewing a PDF Docu-
ment” on page 82
• Creating and Editing PDF Queues > “Review”
on page 109
Interpreting Preflight Reports
Report Chapters
The preflight report generated by Instant PDF is a
PDF document that consists of the following chap-
ters:
In Preflight
Profile:
Severity label
in preflight report:
Meaning
Report as
Information
Caution The deviating property
may not be a real
problem in the strict
sense of the word, but
just something you
should be informed
about.
Report as
Error
Error The property really
has to be as specified
in the Preflight Profile.
A PDF document with
errors is not
output-ready.
Fix this
problem
Fixed The problem has been
resolved in the way
specified in the
Preflight Profile
Chapter Contents
Errors & Warnings (potential) problems according to the
selected Preflight Profile
General File Infor-
mation
information about the current PDF
document, such as title, author,
profile used, data format, etc.
Certified PDF Work-
flow Information
information about when the Certified
PDF workflow was started, the
Preflight Profile that was used to
preflight the PDF document and
whether the Preflight Profile of the
PDF Queue was identical to the
Preflight Profile of the Certified PDF
document, if any
Font Information all fonts used in the PDF document,
along with their attributes (type of
font, embedded or subset, etc.)
Color Information all color spaces (RGB, CMYK, etc.)
used in the PDF document, with
additional information where
required
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