Log selection

Belongs to

Category: General
Type: Checks

What it does

Allows you to log the selection you made with another Action in the same Action list.

This Action is useful if you want to check something for which no "Check" Action is available. For example, if you want to check if the PDF contains red text, you can first select all red text, and then log the selection. You will find all occurences of red text in the Report.

How to proceed

Select a language and enter a text string that will appear in the Report as a reason for any selected objects failing.

Note: You can configure different descriptions for different languages (for example: JPEG images in English versus JPEG afbeeldingen in Dutch). The language shown in the log file depends on the PitStop Pro language (See Edit > Preferences > PitStop Pro Preferences ).
Indicate whether or not the following information should be logged as well (if applicable):
- The type of page and document objects
- The annotation objects
  
  Note: By default, annotations aren't logged. Even if Log selection applies to a selection made by Select annotations, nothing will be logged, unless the Report the annotation objects checkbox is selected.
Select the desired log level.

Note: In this case, it doesn't make sense to choose "Don't log", since the result of this Action is shown in the Enfocus Navigator.

Example

To check if a PDF contains red text, you could create the following Action List:

Select fill and stroke color 
        <!-- Add Select color. Select fill and stroke and determine the color you want to check for, for example using the Grab fill and Grab stroke icon -->
Select text segments 
        <!-- Select text segments -->
AND                  
        <!-- AND : necessary to combine the two previous Actions -->
Log selection        
        <!-- Choose "English" as language and enter "Red text" as explanation. 
                     Select "Log as warning" -->

If you run this Action List, all red text will be selected and logged as a warning. In the Enfocus Navigator, if you select an object in the Description field, you will see the description ("Red text") under Details. You will also find a warning in the Preflight Report (e.g. "Red text (x times on pages y-z)").