Friday, October 5, 2012

Discussion Point 4 – Sandra Stepien

Live Preflight 

Traditionally, designers would manually check their layouts for errors to prevent potential printing problems from occurring, however, this process has changed with the introduction of Live Preflight to InDesign. Preflighting enables you to monitor the document as you create it, for example, displaying errors that can prevent a document from printing or outputting as desired. This allows for problems to be fixed throughout the design process rather than during the process of packaging the document. 

The preflight feature allows you to configure its settings to create a preflight profile which defines which conditions are detected. If a problem is detected, a red circle icon appears in the status bar. When clicked, the preflight panel opens, explains the issue and presents assistance to fix the problem. It ensures that a document contains all its fonts and graphic files, the correct colour space, if there is any overset text and many other conditions. Nonetheless, there are still some details that the designer needs to check manually such as the bleed of the document and the resolution of images used.

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