Acrobat Pro preflighting

[mattbeals]

How many people are using the built in preflighting in Acrobat Pro? Are you using it to make PDF/X files?

[graphicman]

Interesting question...
Funny to say, but I have never felt really "secure" with that. Maybe it depends on that I always have relied on PitStop Pro
and mainly because I easily can make my own preflight cases. :-/

But we are all waiting for the ONE standard preflight - The ISO... Then all our problems are solved. Yes..?

Enjoy!

//Graphicman

[mattbeals]

The Acrobat preflight module is written by Callas. It's great stuff, the most thorough really. PitStop is great, it's my "first love", but pdfInspektor is so powerful. I think that there are over 800 checks in pdfInspektor/preflight. Obviously PitStop can have a huge number when you take into account action lists and custom selections. Building your own preflight parameters in Acrobat preflight is not hard. It's just different than what you are used to.

Oh, and you can add into the preflight a number of "checks" that use Acrobat to execute. Not as sophisticated as PitStop but can be effective.