Prevent from editing preflight profile

[Singaaram]

Hi,

Is there any possible way to prevent a indesign user from editing of loaded preflight profile like '[Basic] working' profile.

Thanks,

Singaaram.

[Willi Adelberger]

What kind of problem you think you will encounter if he does? When he edit it, he can save it only with different name.

[Laubender]

Hi Singaaram,

well, the [Basic] preflight profile cannot be edited.

But of course every user is able to switch to a different profile. Or do its own.

Or turn off the function altogether.

Hm…

I could think about a script that is watching the used profile and is loading a different one, if that changes.

That requires an event handler that is looking after the preflight function in idle moments ( one option ) .

The question is: can that be reliable? And what happens if the user does nothing for a while, let's say for some minutes. Will the idle event listener still work then?

See into this discussion how you could do an idle task on app:

ID2021 scripting: Idle task falls silent
vnh68, Apr 19, 2021
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/id2021-scripting-idle-task-falls-silent/m-p/1197...

Note: The whole script has to be a startup script.

Just to give you an idea,

Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

[Singaaram]

Hi @Willi Adelberger, @Laubender,

Thanks for response.

What I mean is, I am loading a custom profile that created for the project and I don't wanna edit it again by the others. Can that be hidden as like [Basic] profile.

Thanks

[Robert Kyle]

Alternatively, you might be able to use another event listener (beforePrint, for example) to check for the conditions you are trying to enforce with your preflight profile. 

Say you have a designer who thinks that Rich Black sounds like a good idea. Your preflight profile can say otherwise, but the designer can change that or simply ignore it.

 But  you can use an event listener to  to check the Rich Black settings (iirc, it's idealizedBlack In JavaScript). Then you can change it to the proper setting, scold the designer for meddling with it, write out a log file that tells you which designers are doing it, whatever. 

In my InDesign world, event listeners like this are kept in the applications Startup Scripts folder, to which the designers have no access. So they can't disable them. I've not actually used the beforeSave event because we print via server, but you can do a lot with afterOpen, beforeClose, etc. 

[Laubender]

"I am loading a custom profile that created for the project and I don't wanna edit it again by the others."

Well, no, you cannot keep if from being edited.

Therefore the idea to change it back or to load it anew during an idle moment.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )