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Event DetailsOne of the most exciting new features in InDesign CS4 is the real-time preflight. Users can define their own preflight profiles and use these profiles make sure their files meet printing requirements—as they work! InDesign checks your document in real time against the current preflight profile and displays a small red/green light at the bottom of the screen to indicate if there are problems or not. Errors can be viewed in detail, and InDesign even gives a recommended fix for each problem, with the steps necessary to solve it.
However, this real-time preflight is most useful when you've set up custom profiles that perfectly match your printer's requirements. Chapter Representative Paul Erdman showed the group how to define a custom preflight profile, going through all the different settings. For example, you can check for minimum image resolution, unwanted color modes, CMY plates, spot colors, missing fonts & glyphs, overset text, and disproportional scaling.
Different profiles can be designed for different types of documents. For example, you may set up a profile that you use for your two-color newsletters, and another profile that you use for your black-only books, and another profile that you use for files that are published as online PDFs.
Profiles can even be embedded in a document, so that if you wish to send the document to another person they can use the same profile.
Those interested in setting up their own profiles and using CS4's new preflight feature to its fullest are encouraged to open the preflight panel (click the arrow button next to the green/red light at the bottom of the screen) and to study its options.
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