13 professional ‘Live Preflight’ profiles for Creative Suite 4 (update)

Posted by Marco on May 9, 2009 in INDD

I personally dislike using Live Preflight-profiles but they can come in quite handy especially if you’re new to this whole ‘graphic design’ thing or if you’re a webdesigner needing to do some occasional print work. (What’s a Live Preflight? Check out Lynda.com’s short video and accompanying 600 Mb sample file). Nice, but – as always – the Preflight is only as good as the profile defining the preflight. And this is where those nice people from Belgium come in. The Ghent Work Group VIGC got together and created 13 Live Preflight Profiles for the creative professional. Why 13?

The answer’s quite easy: All profiles have been created with the existing (and heavily used) Certified PDF profiles in mind. (More cPDF info and downloads here). So the names of these Live Preflight profiles might ring a bell if you’re used to certifying your PDF’s.

The profiles are:
CmykVeryHiRes, MagazineAds, NewspaperAds, ScreenPrintCmyk, ScreenPrintSpot, SheetCMYK, SheetSpotHiRes, SheetSpotLoRes, SpotVeryHiRes, WebCmykHiRes, WebCmykNews
WebSpotHiRes, WebSpotNews.

You can download the Live Preflight profiles on this Belgium website. If you don’t feel like browsing a Dutch site, here’s the direct download to the 13 Mb zip file containing the profiles, instructions and sample files. Update: The English translation is online as well.

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  1. Eddy Hagen (VIGC) | May 12, 2009 | 11:25 CET

    Hi, there now also is an English page (we first launched them in Flanders / the Netherlands). This is the direct link: http://www.vigc.org/standard-preflight-profiles/

    These profiles are not a (yet) GWG initiatieve, the Live Preflight Profiles are a pure VIGC initiative. We have proposed them at the last GWG meeting (last week). The different associations are now investigating them.

    And I don’t know why you dislike the live preflight tool? It runs in the background, uses limited resources (we did tests with a 64 page documents) and it will prevent many errors. If you know what you’re doing, you don’t need to worry: it will show no errors. But if you do make one, you will get an message upfront. Not from the printer, not from a customer who complains that his job contains errors…

    And there are a lot of errors in PDF files deliverd to printers. A recent survey from Enfocus shows that only 25% of the people surveyed receive no or few PDFs that fail during preflighting. So 75% has many issues with PDFs with errors in them…

    BTW, thanks for linking to us!

    Regards,

    Eddy Hagen
    VIGC

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