Apogee Preflight Settings
When you input PDF files, they are saved in the Page Store. To be sure that the PDFs do not generate errors when they are output, you can run an optional Apogee Preflight check.
You can access these settings:
•When creating (see
“Managing Parameter Sets”). Here, you will see a ‘Lock in Production Plan’ check box (selected by default). If this check box is selected, the settings will be initially locked in the Settings pane. If this check box is deselected, the settings can be edited in the Settings pane.
•In the Settings pane, in the Plan tab of the Job Manager and the Ticket Editor. The settings may be initially locked, as indicated by the Lock icon. If you edit the job, you can unlock them as described in
“Settings Pane (Ticket Editor)”.
Name
The name of the Parameter Set as it will appear in the Production Plan. When you create a Parameter Set, you should specify a Parameter Set name. You can always change this name later by editing the job, choosing the Parameter Set from the Task Processor in the Plan tab, and unlocking the settings in the Settings pane.
Action Lists
The preflight process allows you to automatically edit the PDF, flag issues or perform color management tagging based on a set of rules, called Action Lists.
Category
In this list you can select the action lists by category. The column on the right indicates how many action lists are selected out of the total number of available action list.
Job Type
The Job Type list is used in combination with Category and State lists to filter action lists displayed in the Action List pane. You have 3 options:
•Any: displays all actions of the selected category for all job types
•Wide Format Jobs: displays actions of the selected category only for the Wide Format Jobs.
•Other Jobs: displays actions of the selected category for other job types
State
The State list is used in combination with Category and Job Type lists to filter action lists displayed in the Action List pane. You have 3 options:
•Any: displays all actions of the selected category
•On: displays the active actions in the selected category and job type
•Off: displays actions which are not active in the selected category and job type.
Action List
The Action List pane displays the action lists as selected in the Category, Job Type, and State lists. Each action list name has a short description to clarify the checking criteria. To activate or deactivate specific preflight checks, select or clear one or more of the available Action List check boxes.
You can filter the list of action lists by typing keywords in the Search box at the top of the list.
The categories and action lists are managed in the Apogee Preflight Action Lists resource. For more information, see
“Apogee Preflight Action Lists Overview”.
Job Profile
Select one of the built-in profiles from the drop-down list. Job profiles provide information about the job and these criteria are used to fine-tune the preflight check. A short description of what the profile does is displayed when you choose a profile in the list. For example, choose ‘Soft Proof on Content’ and you will see the short description ‘Optimizes the PDF document for content printing’.
Clicking Manage Profiles at the end of the list opens the Apogee Preflight Profiles resource where you can see more information about the different job profiles. See
“Apogee Preflight Profiles”.
Errors and Notifications
Here you can choose to trigger notifications if an Apogee Preflight warning or error is generated and/or a fix is applied by Apogee Preflight.
When Preflight has warnings
Select this option to receive a notification when a warning is generated.
When Preflight applies fixes
Select this option to receive a notification when a fix is applied.
When Preflight has errors
You have two options in the drop-down list:
•Warn (processing continues)
•Fail result (processing stops)
Report to WebApproval
Select this option to have a Preflight Report sent to the Customer via Remarks in the WebApproval application.
Refuse document placement when Preflight has errors
If you want jobs with errors and/or warnings to be refused, select one of the options in the drop-down list.
Automatically reject pages with Preflight errors
Select this option if you want a page with errors to be rejected automatically.