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Last updated on
Dec. 21, 2023
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Also applies to Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020
- Acrobat User Guide
- Introduction to Acrobat
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Working with online storage accounts
- Acrobat and macOS
- Acrobat notifications
- Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
- Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
- Workspace basics
- Creating PDFs
- Editing PDFs
- Edit text in PDFs
- Edit images or objects in a PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Edit scanned PDFs
- Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
- Optimizing PDFs
- PDF properties and metadata
- Links and attachments in PDFs
- PDF layers
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
- Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro)
- PDFs converted to web pages
- Setting up PDFs for a presentation
- PDF articles
- Geospatial PDFs
- Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
- Change the default font for adding text
- Delete pages from a PDF
- Scan and OCR
- Forms
- PDF forms basics
- Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
- Create and distribute PDF forms
- Fill in PDF forms
- PDF form field properties
- Fill and sign PDF forms
- Setting action buttons in PDF forms
- Publishing interactive PDF web forms
- PDF form field basics
- PDF barcode form fields
- Collect and manage PDF form data
- About forms tracker
- PDF forms help
- Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
- Combining files
- Combine or merge files into single PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Crop PDF pages
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Add backgrounds to PDFs
- Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
- Publish and share PDF Portfolios
- Overview of PDF Portfolios
- Create and customize PDF Portfolios
- Sharing, reviews, and commenting
- Share and track PDFs online
- Mark up text with edits
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a PDF review
- Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
- Participating in a PDF review
- Add comments to PDFs
- Adding a stamp to a PDF
- Approval workflows
- Managing comments | view, reply, print
- Importing and exporting comments
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Saving and exporting PDFs
- Security
- Enhanced security setting for PDFs
- Securing PDFs with passwords
- Manage Digital IDs
- Securing PDFs with certificates
- Opening secured PDFs
- Removing sensitive content from PDFs
- Setting up security policies for PDFs
- Choosing a security method for PDFs
- Security warnings when a PDF opens
- Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
- Protected View feature for PDFs
- Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
- JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
- Attachments as security risks
- Allow or block links in PDFs
- Electronic signatures
- Printing
- Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Searching and indexing
- Multimedia and 3D models
- Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
- Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
- Displaying 3D models in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
- Setting 3D views in PDFs
- Enable 3D content in PDF
- Adding multimedia to PDFs
- Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
- Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
- Add comments to videos
- Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
- Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
- PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
- Preflight profiles
- Advanced preflight inspections
- Preflight reports
- Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
- Output intents in PDFs
- Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
- Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
- Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
- Additional checks in the Preflight tool
- Preflight libraries
- Preflight variables
- Color management
About preflight libraries
Preflight profiles, fixups, and checks are now well-organized in Libraries. Libraries can be useful for getting customized profiles, checks, and corrections. They can be useful in the following ways:
- Create an extensive library for required workstations or partners.
- A smaller set of functions can be clubbed within a single library for the specified group.
- Workflows for a specific process can be put in a single library.
For example, digital printing and publishing functions such as offset, digital, printing, large format, and much more can be grouped within a single library.
Manage libraries
You can create, edit, delete, import, and export preflight libraries using the Manage Libraries option.
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Select See all tools > Use print production, then select Preflight from the left pane.
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box as shown:
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Select Manage Libraries. The Manage Libraries dialog box is displayed with a list of default libraries.
A. Adding a new library B. Duplicate an existing library C. Edit a selected library D. Protect/ lock a selected library E. Unprotect/ unlock a selected library F. Export a selected library G. Import a library H. Delete a selected library
Add new library
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Select See all tools > Use print production, then select Preflight from the left pane.
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box as shown:
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Select Manage Libraries.
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To add a new library, select the
button.
The Preflight: New Library dialog box is displayed.
A. Name of the library B. Library description C. Lock library to protect from changes D. Change color of the library background E. Initial library profile
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Specify a name and an appropriate description of the library.
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Select the Color and the Initial set of Profiles for the library. The library can be locked to protect it from further changes if necessary.
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To save the new library, select OK.
Switch libraries
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box as shown:
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Select the library of your choice.
Customize or modify library
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box.
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Select Manage Libraries.
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In the left pane, select Profiles.
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Select a combination of libraries from the drop-down lists as shown:
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Select
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Select Ok to confirm the changes made.
Note:
Similarly, you can modify or customize Checks and Fixups by selecting the required library from the left pane of the Preflight: Manage Libraries and repeating steps 4-6.
Import or export preflight libraries
Preflight libraries can be shared with other users. To exchange a library, you have to package it for import and export. The package includes all profiles, checks, fixups, and properties for the selected library.
Export library
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box.
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Select the library to be exported.
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In the same Libraries drop-down list, select Export Library.
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Specify the name and the location where the library is to be exported.
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Select Save.
Import library
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Select the Libraries drop-down list from the Preflight dialog box.
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Select Import Library.
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Locate the preflight library file (.kfp file) to be imported.
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Select Open. The imported library is displayed in the Libraries drop-down list.
Search all libraries
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In the Preflight dialog, select the Search All Libraries.
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Enter the search term into the Find field.
Preflight will search all libraries for profiles, checks, and fixups matching the entered term. You can view all the profiles if you don't use any search terms.
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