Specifications

• Offering the PDF document provider a simple and streamlined way to preflight a PDF document

with a Preflight Profilesupplied by the PDF document recipient.

• Including the Preflight Profileand the corresponding preflight report in the PDF document. This

way there can be no doubt about the preflight status of the PDF document.

• Offering a straightforward user interface that enables the recipient of the PDF document to

verify that the document has been preflighted successfully with a profile he or she provided.

The above-mentioned features help to:

• Motivate the PDF document provider to actually preflight his or her PDF documents.

• Dramatically reduce the number of problems in files received from PDF document providers.

9.3 Document consistency

PDF editing issues

PDF editing tools, such as Enfocus PitStop Pro, are very convenient for making intermediate or

last-minute corrections in PDF documents. This saves you both time and money because you do

not have to go back to the original application program to re-create the PDF document. Sometimes,

it may even be more efficient to make the changes directly in your PDF document. Enfocus PitStop

Pro, for example, allows you to make global color changes throughout your PDF document.

However, PDF editing also involves a risk: as soon as you edit and save a PDF document, you create

a version of a document that is different from the original document you made using a word

processor or a desktop publishing software. These inconsistencies are hard to manage, and may

introduce problems in archiving or when the document is republished at a later date.

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PDF editing in a Certified PDF workflow

To help reduce document consistency problems, the Certified PDF workflow features a mechanism

that:

• Logs all the changes that are made to a Certified PDF document

• Can store these changes inside the Certified PDF document

Based on this information, an edit log —a human readable PDF report— can be generated.

If consistency between the PDF document and the source file(s) is very important, you can use the

edit log to change the source file(s) accordingly. To assist in this process, a Certified PDF document

can also keep a reference to the source file(s) from which the PDF document was created. You

can use this reference to make sure that the source file has not been edited since the PDF document

was created.

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