Creating a preflight profile When you turn on the live preflight feature (check On in the Preflight panel), the default working profile, called [Basic], is used to preflight your InDesign documents. This profile checks for basic output conditions, such as missing or modified graphic files, overset text, and missing fonts. You can also create your own preflight profiles or load them from your print output provider or other source. When you create a custom preflight profile, you specify the conditions you want to detect. Here’s how to create a profile that alerts you when non-CMYK colors are used in a layout: 1 Choose Window > Output > Preflight, and then choose Define Profiles from the Preflight panel menu. 2 Click the New Preflight Profile button ( ) on the lower-left side of the Preflight Profiles dialog box to create a new preflight profile. In the Profile Name box, enter CMYK Colors Only. 3 Click the triangle to the left of Color to display color-related options, check to select Color Spaces And Modes Not Allowed, and then check to select all of the available options except CMYK (RGB, Gray, Lab, and Spot Color).
4 Leave existing preflight criteria for Links, Images And Objects, Text, and Document as is. Click Save, and then click OK. 5 Choose CMYK Colors Only from the Profile menu in the Preflight panel. Notice the additional errors that are listed in the Error section of the panel. 6 Click the triangle next to Color to expand the display, and then click the triangle next to Color Space Not Allowed to see a list of objects that do not use the CMYK color model. Click various objects to view information about the problem and how to fix it. (Make sure the Info section of the Preflight panel is visible. If not, click the triangle to the left of Info to display it.) 7 Choose [Basic] (Working) from the Profile menu in the Preflight panel to return to the default profile used for this lesson.
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