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Using preflight profiles

Using preflight profiles

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Using preflight profiles

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If you're looking for problems in just a single PDF, you can probably just use Output Preview. But if you're looking for problems in multiple PDFs and you'd like to batch process them. Then you need to create a Preflight profile. To do that, go to your Print Production Tools and choose Preflight. And you'll see that there's a pretty good number of presets that ship with Acrobat. But what I'm going to do, is use one of those as a starting point, and then I'm going to customize it and have it look for anything that's not spot color or black. In other words, anything that's going to generate a cyan, magenta, or yellow plate, So under Prepress, I'm going to use this Sheetfed Offset profile as a starting point. Now, I don't want to change it. I want to leave it intact. So I'm going to come up to Options and choose Create New PreFlight Profile. And I need to name it. And I'm going to tell it to search for CMYK. So I'm going to name it no CMYK. And you can put all sorts of information in…

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