Comments on: Please Don’t Rely on InDesign’s Preflight

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:04:22 +0000

@Cam: Choose Preflight Options from the preflight panel menu, then choose your profile from the Working Profile popup menu.

By: Cam

Cam — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:54:01 +0000

I like the new preflight feature on CS5.5 but the defaults are not relevant to may workflow. So Ive made a custom preflight profile with all the checks I need but I can’t make it the default profile. Everytime I open a new document I have to re-assign my preflight profile to the document. Its getting annoying having to do this as I check a lot of documents every day.

So in short, can I change the default Preflight Profile or how do I make my custom profile the default?

Thanks all.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:40:43 +0000

@Alicia: That’s insane, in my humble opinion. If the printer can’t print it grayscale and charge for B&W, then they aren’t worth their salt (or ink).

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:02:57 +0000

Using Indesign preflight to make sure of greyscale conversion and my printing contractor is still charging me for colour…Has anyone had this problem. Or is it the printer I should be looking at?

By: Troy Cole

Troy Cole — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:34:31 +0000

Thanks David,

Although I realize it does have it’s limitations, once customized, I do find it useful. The main issue I have with however, is that I can’t figure out how to get it off of the [Basic] (Default) setting. The default setting checks for almost nothing. I’ve created my own profile which checks for many more parameters within my documents. But every time I open a document I need to remember to switch from the Default profile to the one I created. I realize that I can embed a profile in a particular document, but I would prefer if I could set my profile as the default – then I don’t have to worry about it. Is there a way to change the default preflight settings?

Thanks,
Troy

By: Nachum

Nachum — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:33:58 +0000

I have preflighted with Acrobat, but this is really POST-fight. I like the idea of having all files correct prior to creating the PDF file.

I am nearing completion of a 300+ page Art book in InDesign CS3, containing hundreds of TIFFs, many in JPEG which will need to be converted to CMYK, 300 dpi, and a slew of fonts.

Is Enfocus PitStop the best app for this and similar projects, or InFlight, or InPreFlight, of is there a better method?

Mac OS X 10.5.8, InDesign CS3, PS CS3, Acrobat 9 Pro .

By: chris

chris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:54:14 +0000

Does anyone know why if I work on an Indesign files and save as another name, then export a PDF it keeps the original name even though I have renamed the file?????
Drives me nuts!

By: taojones

taojones — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:11:06 +0000

the biggest bear i have encountered is outputting to newspapers in greyscale i get surprising results especally in the cheap local papers.
the same file prints differently on each press.
Dan Margolis suggests that you lower the dot gain in photoshop to 15 or so to prevent “clogging” this may be the real key to better newsprint images I’m using acrobat 8 and the greyscale conversion seems to work fine but the newspaper preflight looks like a christmas tree.
Im sending a bunch of files with the lowered dot gain and seeing what happens.

i will post results

By: Leo Revzin

Leo Revzin — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:16:21 +0000

>Carsten Pihl said:
>The whole export to pdf and check >takes no more than a minute or so.

Unfortunately, it’s true for some really small documents only. With all its advantages, InDesign can be awfully slow on printing and export. I work at one of the largest Canadian ad agencies where we deal with large InDesign files every day – from newspaper ads to huge billboards. Exporting and printing many of these files takes enormous time, so if you wait till you create PDF and then discover errors, you can waste hours and hours of production time.
So that’s why I created InPreflight in the first place – to have a fast and reliable preflight solution for the real world environment where I work. And to replace FlightCheck – which we found unacceptable after the version 5 was released.
Only users however can judge how effective it is – and I get solid feedback from the InPreflight users that InPreflight is on the right track. Check it out at http://zevrix.com/inpreflight.html, and please feel free to contact me with any questions and suggestions.

By: James Gregurich

James Gregurich — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:05:33 +0000

If anyone would like to provide feedback on what Flightcheck should and and shouldn’t report, we’d like to hear about it. Please provide your feedback at http://support.markzware.com/

thanks,
James Gregurich