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Preflight books



Choosing Preflight Book from the Book panel menu causes all documents (or all selected documents) to be examined for errors. You can use the profile embedded in each document, or you can specify a profile to use. A green, red, or question mark icon indicates the preflight status of each document. Green indicates the document has no reported errors. Red indicates errors. A question mark indicates an unknown status. For example, the document may be closed, preflighting may be turned off, or the preflight profile was changed.

Set preflight options in a book

  1. Choose Preflight Book from the book panel menu.

  2. In the Preflight Book Options dialog box, specify whether you want the preflight options to apply to the entire book or only to selected documents.

  3. Under Preflight Profile, indicate whether you want to use the profile specified in the Use Profile menu or the embedded profile of each document.

    The profile you specify is temporarily used for each document. When you close and open any of the individual documents, either the working profile or the embedded profile is used, depending on which option is specified in the Preflight Options dialog box.

  4. Under Include, determine which items are included in the error list.

    Layers
    Specify whether items on all layers, visible layers, or visible and printable layers are included in preflighting. For example, if an item is on a hidden layer, you can choose not to view errors reported on that item.

    Objects On Pasteboard
    Select this option to report errors on objects placed on the pasteboard.

    Non-Printing Objects
    Select this option to report errors on objects marked as non-printing in the Attributes panel.

  5. Select Generate Report to generate a text or PDF file containing a list of errors. The generated report lists all errors in the book.

  6. Click Preflight.

Resolve preflight errors in a book

When a red dot appears to the right of a document name in the book panel, the document contains preflight errors.

  1. In the Book panel, double-click the document containing errors.

  2. Use the Preflight panel to view the errors in each document, and make the necessary changes to fix the problems.

Design elements such as styles or swatches may cause errors. In such cases, make sure that you resolve the errors in the styles or swatches of the style source document, and then synchronize the book.

If you specified a profile to be used in book preflight that is not the embedded document profile, keep in mind that a different profile may be selected when you open the document again. The different profile may result in different preflight errors.