Specifications

9. Working with Certified PDF Documents

9.1 About Certified PDF

PDF workflow concept

Enfocus Certified PDF is a PDF workflow concept developed by Enfocus Software, based on customer

requests and feedback from industry experts. The Certified PDF concept has been designed to

address three fundamental issues faced by the majority of users implementing a PDF workflow:

• How to

Guaranteed preflighting

on page 72that a PDF document was successfully preflighted

with a specific Preflight Profile.

• How to maintain

Document consistency

on page 73between the source document(s) and the

PDF document when (minor) changes can be applied to the PDF document throughout the

workflow.

• How to minimize risk and

Responsibility

on page 74when changing a customer's PDF document

before final output.

9.2 Guaranteed preflighting

Preflighting issues

“Preflighting” is the process of checking a PDF document against various criteria to ensure that

the PDF document meets all the requirements for output or publication. Typically, the criteria vary

depending on the output or publishing process. A set of criteria matching the requirements of a

particular process is called a “Preflight Profile”.

Enfocus PitStop Server, for example, allows you to create a Preflight Profile that checks your PDF

document against various criteria, such as color and font usage. Moreover, you can use Enfocus

PitStop Server to actually fix detected problems in your PDF documents.

Ideally, a PDF document should be preflighted at an early stage in a workflow, i.e. as soon as it

has been created. This is particularly true if the PDF document will move from the PDF document

provider, who created the PDF document, to the PDF document recipient, for example a publishing

or printing department. Detecting problems in the PDF document before the file leaves the PDF

document provider saves time (and money). Even more so, when the PDF file is sent to a different

physical location.

Note: You can also create Certified PDF documents with Enfocus Instant PDF. For more information

about Enfocus Instant PDF, visit our Web site at www.enfocus.com.

Preflighting in a Certified PDF workflow

A Certified PDF workflow supports the preflight process by:

Enfocus PitStop Server