Difference between a regular and a Certified preflight check

Difference between a regular and a Certified PDF Preflight check

There are two types of preflight:

A regular preflight: A regular preflight checks (and optionally fixes) the PDF, but does not embed the Preflight Profile or the preflight result in the PDF.
A Certified PDF preflight: A Certified PDF preflight checks (and optionally fixes) the PDF, and embeds the Preflight Profile and the preflight result in the PDF. In this way, there can be no doubt about the preflight status of the PDF. For more information, refer to the chapter on Working with Certified PDF documents.

The Certified PDF status in case of a regular preflight

A regular preflight does not change the Certified PDF status of the PDF document:

If, at the time of preflighting,	Then
The PDF document is not a Certified PDF	The PDF document will remain "unCertified".
The PDF document is a Certified PDF	The Preflight Profile embedded in the Certified PDF document will not be removed, even if you preflight the PDF document with a different Preflight Profile in the Enfocus Processing Panel.

The Certified PDF status in case of a Certified PDF preflight

A Certified PDF preflight checks and changes the Certified PDF status of the PDF document as follows:

If, at the time of preflighting,	Then
The PDF document is not a Certified PDF	You will be asked whether you want to start a Certified PDF workflow for this PDF document.
The PDF document is a Certified PDF	The PDF document will already have a Preflight Profile embedded. PitStop Pro will check whether the Preflight Profile you selected in the Enfocus Processing Panel is the same as the embedded Preflight Profile: If the Preflight Profiles match, the PDF document will be preflighted. If the Preflight Profiles do not match, you will be asked whether you want use the Preflight Profile you just selected in the Enfocus Processing Panel instead of the embedded Certified Preflight Profile.

If, at the time of preflighting,

Then

The PDF document is not a Certified PDF

You will be asked whether you want to start a Certified PDF workflow for this PDF document.

The PDF document is a Certified PDF

The PDF document will already have a Preflight Profile embedded. PitStop Pro will check whether the Preflight Profile you selected in the Enfocus Processing Panel is the same as the embedded Preflight Profile:

If the Preflight Profiles match, the PDF document will be preflighted.

If the Preflight Profiles do not match, you will be asked whether you want use the Preflight Profile you just selected in the Enfocus Processing Panel instead of the embedded Certified Preflight Profile.