Specifications

• Images
• OPI
• Text
• Line art
• Layers
• Transparency
• Annotations
• Metadata
• PDF/X
7.3 Problem reporting
Problem severity levels defined
If any of the properties in a PDF document does not comply with the settings as specified in the
Preflight Profile, it will be logged in the preflight report and, if you have Enfocus PitStop Pro
installed, also in the Enfocus Navigator. You can select how these deviations should be reported:
• As “Warning”
• As “Sign-Off”
• As “Error”
These labels indicate severity levels of the detected “problem”. If a property does not comply, you
can define how severe the detected problem is:
• You can label deviating properties as “Warning” if it is not a real problem in the strict sense of
the word, but just something you would like to be informed about.
• You can label deviating properties as “Sign-off” if it could be a real problem (handled as an
Error), unless the user signs off the problem, stating that it is no real issue for this particular
document. In that case it will be handled as a Warning.
• You can label deviating properties as “Error” if you really want them to be as specified in the
Preflight Profile before you send them to output.
Problem severity levels: example
Suppose that some of the PDF documents you work with contain RGB colors. First, you want to
print them on a black and white output device, such as a laser printer, for proofing purposes. In
that case, RGB colors are not really a problem. However, you would like to know which PDF
documents contain objects in RGB color, because at a later stage, you might want to print these
documents on a color printing press. You could then use two different Preflight Profiles to preflight
these PDF documents:
• A Preflight Profile for the laser printer, which reports RGB colors as “Warning”
• A Preflight Profile for the color press, which reports RGB colors as “Error”
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