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What are the most often used preflight profiles for prepress

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Feb 15, 2024 Feb 15, 2024

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For work, I produce graphic elements and documents for printing, both laser and offset.
I never have problems because I respect the PDF-X standards that are required of me.

However, I would like to know which of the preflight profiles most used in prepress are among those available in Acrobat Pro.

 

personally in the past I have found useful the profile that sets the cropbox as the trimbox... or the profile that checks compatibility with a certain PDF-X standard.

sometimes I use Acrobat change color tool.

 

with indesign it is possible to do a preflight before producing the PDF file while with Illustrator, which has never caused me problems, it is possible to do it with Acrobat only after producing the PDF.

Can those who carry out prepress activities find sufficient tools in Acrobat Pro or do they have to use other dedicated software?

thanks: D

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Create PDFs , Edit and convert PDFs , PDF , Print and prepress , Standards and accessibility

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Jan 24, 2025 Jan 24, 2025

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Many prepress departments use 3rd party automation/workflow software from prepress vendors (Agfa, Esko, Kodak, Heidelberg, Screen etc). Others may use Acrobat Pro plugins such as Enfocus PitStop Pro. For the Acrobat built-in tools which are a subset "white label license" based on Callas pdfToolbox, then the various PDF/X, Digital printing or Prepress preflight profiles may be used. There are many different checks and fixes.

 

Additionally, one can also download and install preflight profiles from industry bodies such as the Ghent Workgroup:

 

https://gwg.org/download/adobe-acrobat-application-settings-gwg-2015/

 

https://gwg.org/pdf-x-workflow/

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Jan 24, 2025 Jan 24, 2025

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thx @Stephen Marsh !

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