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Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
Last updated 1/14/2015
About droplets and actions
If you routinely use the same preflight profile to inspect documents, you can use a droplet or a preflight action to
process files.
A droplet in Preflight is a small application that runs a Preflight inspection on one or more PDFs that you drag onto the
Droplet icon
. You can save a droplet on the desktop or to another location on your computer.
Like droplets, a preflight action inspects multiple files at once, separates successful files from problem files, and creates
reports in designated locations. In addition, hot folders can convert multiple file types (JPEG, HTML, RTF, and so on)
to PDF or to PDF/X using conversion settings you specify; inspect the files using specified profiles; and output them in
any format Acrobat supports, including PDF and PostScript.
Note: If you are inspecting only files, you probably don’t need to save changes or save copies in output folders.
Create and edit a droplet for running a preflight inspection
When you inspect files using a droplet, you can separate successful files from problem files, and review results in an
optional report.
Create a droplet
1 Choose Create Preflight Droplet from the Options menu in the Preflight dialog box.
2 Choose a Preflight profile from the pop-up menu. Create a new one if the exact profile you need is not listed.
3 Specify settings for handling the PDFs after the preflight inspection, and then save the droplet.
Edit droplet settings
1 Double-click the Droplet icon , or choose Edit Preflight Droplet from the Options menu of the Preflight dialog
box.
2 Change the settings you want to modify, and then save the droplet.
Droplet settings
Use the droplet options to specify how the Preflight tool processes PDFs when you drag them onto the Droplet icon.
Note: You also specify these options when you run a preflight inspection using the Actions feature. (See Action wizard
(Acrobat Pro) .)
Keep Profile [profile] (Edit Droplet Settings) Uses the currently selected profile for the preflight inspection.
Capture (Edit Droplet Settings) Inserts the profile being used in the droplet into the profile list under the Imported
Profiles category.
Change Profile (Edit Droplet Settings) Provides a menu of all available profiles. You can select a different profile for the
preflight inspection.
Run Preflight Profile Without Applying Fixups Inspects and reports on problems without correcting them. This option
is available only if you choose a profile that includes a fixup for correcting problems.
Copy PDF File Places a copy of the PDF in the Success or Error folder.
Move PDF File Moves the inspected PDF to the Success or Error folder.
Save Alias Of PDF File Places a link to the PDF in the Success or Error folder, so that the original file is not moved from
its location.