PitStop Pro: every preflight check

PDF Standards

  • PDF/X Compliancy
  • PDF/A Compliancy
  • Embedded PostScript fragments
  • Trapnet annotation (PDF/X)
  • Version Key
  • Pre-separated pages
  • Unknown objects
  • Annotation in printable area
  • Output intent
  • Default color spaces

Page

  • Page box layout
  • Position media box
  • Different page sizes
  • Different page orientations
  • Page size
  • Page is scaled
  • Empty page
  • Number of pages
  • Objects outside page box
  • Page size: fit to columns / fit to rows
  • Safe type zone
  • Bleed

Color

  • Ink coverage
  • Color: RGB
  • Color: Calibrated RGB or gray
  • Color: Impure gray
  • Color: Impure black
  • Color: Lab
  • Color: Indexed
  • Number of separations
  • Spot color
  • Spot color All
  • Spot color: bad suffix
  • Spot color: ambiguous
  • Spot color: alternate
  • NChannel
  • ICC based
  • ICC: wrong profile text/line art or wrong profile images
  • ICC: default color spaces
  • Pattern or shading
  • Wrong color tints
  • Wrong spot color
  • Not suited for viewing
  • Not suited for calibrated display
  • ICC: unwanted profile text/lineart or image

Text

  • Text size
  • Black text
  • White text
  • Invisible text

Layers

  • Layers
  • Print state

Annotations

  • Text type
  • Other type
  • Print setting
  • External hyperlink

Line art

  • Line weight
  • Invisible Line Art
  • Nodes
  • Flatness
  • White line art

Document

  • PDF Version
  • Compression not optimal
  • Compressed objects
  • Encoding
  • Damaged
  • Trapnet annotation (flag)
  • Binding
  • Fast Web View
  • PostScript device needs
  • Security usage
  • Security: Printing
  • Security: High-resolution printing
  • Security: Copying or extracting content
  • Security: Content accessibility
  • Security: Editing content
  • Security: Editing annotations and authorizations
  • Security: Filling in form fields and signing
  • Security: Document Assembly
  • Info: Title, Subject, Author, Keyword, Creator
  • Info: Producer
  • Info: Date

Transparency

  • Transparency (with spot color/with overprint)
  • No blending color space

Rendering

  • Custom transfer curve
  • Custom halftone
  • Custom UCR or Custom BG
  • Rendering intent
  • Wrong intent text/line art or images
  • Halftone phase

Font

  • TrueType font
  • Type 1 font
  • Type 3 font
  • Multiple Master font
  • City font
  • Composite font
  • Font from Vendor
  • Font Name
  • Not embedded
  • Embedded OpenType
  • Embedded completely/subset
  • Embedded completely for Composite
  • Embedded Acrobat emulatable font
  • Font Style: Outline, Bold or Italic
  • Corrupt font

Images

  • Compression: Color/grayscale or 1-bit
  • JPEG compression ratio
  • 16 bits per channel
  • Alternate images
  • OPI
  • OPI is missing
  • OPI is incompatible
  • Image is rotated
  • Image is flipped
  • Image is sheared
  • Image is scaled
  • Resolution

Other objects

  • JavaScript
  • Actions
  • Form fields
  • Thumbnails
  • Bookmarks
  • Article Threads
  • Unused destinations
  • Marked content

 

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