To edit or create a Preflight Profile


  1. Open the Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor, either by creating a new Preflight Profile or by editing an existing one.
  2. In the SETUP > General category, check and, if necessary, change the Preflight Profile Properties: Name, Author, Company and Description of the Preflight Profile.
    1. In the Permissions section, you can choose to partially lock the Preflight Profile and set a password for it. You can also choose to allow fixes, sign-off and/or change log fixes, preflight report and color management settings. See Locking a Preflight Profile for more information.
    2. In the Problem Handling section, you can decide what you want to do when an error occurs. You can allow fixes, allow sign-off and/or allow changing the log fixes.
    3. In the Preflight Report section, along with the preflight details you can choose to include information on font, color/ color spaces, page box, images, OPI and output intent.
  3. In the SETUP > Color Management category, you can define your color management settings. See Using the Color Management Preset Editor for more information.

    Furthermore, you can enable or disable all fixes in the Preflight Profile. Indeed, an Enfocus Preflight Profile can do more than just a preflight check of PDF documents: it can also fix detected problems. You can, however, also create a Preflight Profile in which you specify a number of fixes and disable these fixes. You may want to do this if you just want to check PDF documents but not change them now, maybe later.

  4. In the CHECK ON category, click a profile check in the list. Select the checkbox next to it to enable this profile check.
  5. In the Available Checks section, double click one or more checks or potential problems to check to add it to the profile check.
  6. Specify how to fix the problem, if necessary.
  7. Select how the detected problem should be listed in the preflight report: Warning, Sign-off or Error.
  8. In the Actions drop-down menu, you can select Enable Variable Names to use a variable instead of a fixed value. This icon appears and when you click it, the Select a variable dialog box appears.
  9. In the Select a variable dialog box, you can either choose to not use a Variable Set or you can select a Variable Set which contains the variable that you want to use. A variable is a special, well-recognizable text string that gets replaced by a dynamic value. Variable data can be used to provide a value for a property. Preferences > Enfocus PitStop Pro Preferences > Variable Sets for more information.
  10. Repeat steps 6 through 10 for each profile check you wish to check and fix.
  11. Click OK button.