![]() idpp (InDesign Preflight Profile) extension. In the Preflight Profile dialog, click the menu to the right of the + and – buttons (see figure below), and choose Export Profile. To export a profile, choose Define Profiles in the Preflight panel flyout menu. Unless you’ve backed up your custom profile, it will be lost when you restore InDesign preferences! There’s one more important step in making a custom profile: You must back it up! Custom profiles are stored in InDesign’s preferences. ![]() Return to your profile and refine it, adding things you forget or deleting those that aren’t necessary. Then open up some of the kinds of files you normally work with, and test again. When you do, InDesign will immediately analyze the InDesign file using the new profile.Īfter you create a new profile, make up some test files, and add some mistakes to them. Now, for the customized preflight profile to be active, you must select it from the list of profiles. In the example below, I’ve added the ability to look for low resolution images by checking the options under Image Resolution.Īfter making your choices, click OK. It might be tempting to make a profile with every possible option checked, but that will end up being more trouble than it’s worth. For most environments, you probably want to define different profiles for the different kinds of output you do regularly. It will require some experience and experimentation to decide what criteria to include. Next, you want to choose the attributes you want to check for in the profile. Give it a name (I named mine “Production”), and click Save. In the Preflight Profiles dialog, you first want to add a profile. To create a custom preflight profile, open the Preflight dialog (Window > Output > Preflight), and choose Define Profiles from the flyout menu. The default profile only checks for a few simple things?missing or modified graphics, missing fonts, or overset text. The Pfeiffer Consulting study found that ?locating and fixing document errors with Live Preflight was twice as fast in our tests as compared to the preflight functionality in previous releases.?īut the key to making Live Preflight useful for your production workflow is to create your own preflight profile. ![]() The main reason is that it improves your productivity. In my previous posting on the Live Preflight feature in InDesign CS4, I talked about some reasons why Live Preflight was an advance over the Preflight feature in previous versions of InDesign. ![]()
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