Comments on: How to preflight PDF files

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:44:03 +0000

There are two potential solutions for this problem (which by the way has nothing to do with preflighting): - You overlooked an option to print B&W in your printer driver. Most printer drivers do have such an option but it may be hidden in some obscure corner of one of the printer setup menus. - You use a tool to convert the color PDF to grayscale. In Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for example, go to Advanced > Print Production > Preflight and select the Convert to Grayscale PDF Fixup. Click the Analyze and Fix button and your problem is solved. In Acrobat 10 Professional the procedure is the same but the Print Production panel is now in the Tools panel on the right hand side of the screen and you may have to click the little triangle to make it appear. There are other tools on the market to do this kind of conversion. Enfocus Pitstop and Quite-A-Box-of-Tricks come to mind.

By: karey

karey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:40:18 +0000

How do I print a adobe pdf document (adobe version 1.4) inb black ink only. When I go to print it doesnt give me the option to change to black ink only so it prints in colour if there is colour in the document which is wasting my ink. Can anyone help me?

By: Edgar

Edgar — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:33:24 +0000

Si te refieres a la proporcion de tintas necesarias para lograr un color plano, te puedes guiar de una Guia Pantone de Color.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:56:20 +0000

Does anyone know of a pdf plugin that will allow me to get the percentage of ink on spot colors. This is not density, but percentage of ink on the sheet used to determine how much ink to mix.

By: Tessa Warburg

Tessa Warburg — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:52:24 +0000

I use InDesign to create the file, print to Postscript file, then convert to PDF using Acrobat 8
I want to preflight the PDF
I cannot find the advanced setting on the menu bar
Please help

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:17:07 +0000

This would not be flagged as an error (so to speak as KO), but as a warning. Ether you give your OK to process the file as is (approve the warning) or you fix it by setting the black text to overprint.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:15:38 +0000

My guess is that this file is going through a process that is performing colormangement using rendering intent “absolute colorimetric” or using an outdated CMM.

By: evans

evans — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:10:51 +0000

wow, dis has been more than helpful to me. thnx

By: becky

becky — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:52:11 +0000

What can I do to fix a pink tint that sometimes occurs when ripping a pdf. Pink shows in areas of pdf that should be white

By: Laurens

Laurens — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:21:44 +0000

Some interesting statistics about preflighting PDF files and PitStop: http://www.digital-engineer.net/archive/entry/preflighters-around-the-world-this-is-you/