Does Preflight have a profile for detecting total area coverage as a percentage?

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I am looking to see if Acrobat has a Preflight profile for analyzing a pdf to determine the percentage of area covered. What I mean by this is if I have a file that only contains black and white imagery, I want to find the what percentage of the entire page contains black. I know that Enfocus' Pitstop Pro has this feature and I have been able to successful gather this information, but I am curious if Preflight has a similar profile. I work for an OEM and we are trying to put together a guide for our customers to determine low/medium/high print coverage for estimating job costs if they don't already have Pitstop Pro or don't want to purchase it.

I've attached examples of the file and the Pitstop Pro Report that I am looking to achieve with just Preflight in Acrobat.

creative explorer · Accepted Answer

@cathy_0422 not that I can see. Adobe Acrobat's native Preflight does not have a built-in profile to detect total area coverage as a percentage of the page area. The Preflight feature is primarily designed to check for print production issues like incorrect color spaces, fonts, image resolutions, and overprint problems. It doesn't have a direct tool for calculating ink coverage as a percentage of the total page area for a single color.

defaultuw68p5m7ed9g · Answer

@cathy_0422 can you please show me how to generate that pitstop pro report that shows the total ink coverage? I've tried googling with no luck. Thank you in advance.

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