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Customizing a Preflight Profile Acrobat 9 Pro ships with an extensive selection of preflight profiles, but you will probably want to create some custom profiles tailored to your needs. For example, there is a profile to check for images below 250 ppi, but there is no prebuilt profile to check for images below 300 ppi, which is the customary desired image resolution for commercial print. So you may want to create a custom preflight profile just to check for images that fall below the desired 300 ppi resolution. You can combine multiple checks within one profile; you're not limited to checking for just one potential issue. You can create, edit, and delete custom profiles. You can also export profiles to share with your workgroup or send to customers, and import profiles to add to your preflight list by using the buttons at the bottom of the Edit Profile dialog box. To edit a preflight profile and save it as a custom profile for future use: 1. Choose Create New Preflight Profile from the Preflight panel menu. A list of profiles appears in the lefthand pane, with a row of edit buttons below the list. If this is the first new custom profile you have created, the Custom profiles category is created, and your new profile is listed in the category as New Profile 1. You may find it easier to select an existing profile and click the Duplicate Profile button ( ). If you duplicate a profile, the new profile will be stored under the same category as the profile you've duplicated. New Profile Delete Profile Export Profile Duplicate Profile Import Profile Preflight Profile Edit Buttons: To create, edit, delete, import, and export profiles, use the buttons at the bottom of the Edit dialog box. 2. Enter a name and update the description to reflect the attributes; this will help you and your customers identify what the profile is used for. 3. In the left column, select the attributes you want to edit, such as Images, Fonts, or Colors. 4. Click the button next to the problem you want to identify and enter a value, if appropriate. For example, if you want to identify any images with a resolution lower than 300 ppi, click the Images option under the profile name, and type 300 in the "pixels per inch" box in the right side of the dialog box. Choose what kind of response the profile will yield by choosing an option from the pop-up menu to the left of the entry: Preflight Alert Options: Choose the type of alert you want a Preflight profile to display. • Error: Lets you know a file has failed preflight. • Info: Reports on conditions found during preflight without implying any error. Consequently, the PDF isn't regarded as "failing" the preflight test. • Warning: Uses a yellow alert triangle to call your attention to conditions in the PDF that, while not constituting a failure of the preflight test, may be of concern in some workflow situations. • Inactive: Prevents the profile from checking the attribute. Make any other changes to the profile; choose Locked to prevent accidental changes. Click Summary in the left pane to see a summary of the errors that the profile will identify. 7 Click OK. Acrobat adds the new profile to the list. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 107