Action Lists and Preflight Profiles are the "fuel" for hot folders. The processing of hot folders can be triggered by one or more Action Lists, a Preflight Profile or a combination of both. A hot folder with neither an Action List nor a Preflight Profile simply won’t run. For each hot folder you can specify:
and/or
PDF documents received in a hot folder are first fed to the folder’s current Action List(s). The changes defined in the Action List(s) are applied to the file before it proceeds to the next part of the engine. A Preflight Profile is run against the PDF document before it leaves the input folder. First the Action Lists and fixes included in the PDF Profile will be applied if necessary. After that, the PDF document will be preflighted with the PDF Profile.