User manual ENFOCUS SOFTWARE PDF STANDARDIZER QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] 16 4 ALWAN PDF Standardizer Quick-Start Guide ALWAN PDF Standardizer Quick-Start Guide 5 About this Quick-Start Guide Congratulations for choosing PDF Standardizer, the automated and reliable PDF Standardization tool for your workflow. Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with PDF Standardizer using this Quick-Start Guide. This Guide will describe to you step by step each option and choice that you will have to make in order to create a PDF Standardization flow. This Quick-Start Guide will also introduce you briefly to the three technologies that are embedded in PDF Standardizer : · Enfocus PitStop Server Library · Alwan CMYK Optimizer Library · Enfocus FullSwitch For a complete description of the features of each of these applications, you can refer to the individual manual of each application. 6 ALWAN PDF Standardizer Quick-Start Guide Enfocus PitStop Server Library overview Enfocus PitStop Server is the world leading software for PDF preflight and control. [. . . ] Difference between the two is the following: Ads: Allows only 1 page PDF documents. Any document: Allows one or multiple pages PDF documents. Question 3: Would you like to use any embedded profile(s) and intent(s) ? If you know, please tick the destination of the PDF files you produce. If you do not know tick "I don't Know" The answer to this question will determine a Standard Output ICC Profile for the flow. If you choose: Europe: ECI/ISO12647 ICC relevant Profiles will be used USA: IDEAlliance ICC relevant Profiles will be used. Everywhere: ECI/ISO12467 ICC Profiles will be used. I don't know: ECI/ISO12467 relevant ICC Profiles will be used. Question 5: On which printing process are your files printed? If you would like to use any ICC profile information embedded in a PDF file, tick Yes. If you are not sure, please tick "I don't know". PDF Standardizer will adapt and use the chosen Default Profiles. Please choose your output printing Process among the available options. If your output process is a digital press, a digital printer, or an analog press having a custom profile, please tick Digital / Custom. This will allow you to use your custom output process profile. If you are not sure, please tick "I don't know". PDF Standardizer will use a relevant ECI profile. ALWAN PDF Standardizer Quick-Start Guide 11 Question 6: How do you want to manage spot colors? Question 8: What would you like to do? This dialogue allows you to define Spot Colors management of your PDF documents (Q2) If you are not sure, please tick "I don't know", your spot colors will be kept unchanged. Question 7: On which paper are your files printed?(Available paper options depend on the process you have selected in Q5) Preflight: allows you to preflight your file to check if it has is any PDF or color compliancy problem. This option does not fix any encountered problem. A preflight report is saved in the flow Report folder. Standardize: allows you to preflight and fix most PDF and color compliancy problems that may be found. A preflight report is also saved in the flow Report folder with found errors, warnings and successful fixes, A successfully Standardized and certified file will have no Errors left after Standardization. Question 8-1: Transparencies Management: (appears only if you choose Preflight in Q8) Please choose your actual paper category. [. . . ] These files are not fully compliant with ISO PDFX1a and ISO 12647. You may want to fix these files or print them knowing found errors and risks. Example of errors that can not be fixed: Not embedded fonts, OPI links missing, etc. 8 - OUTPUT (OutPut Compliant Folder) Files that are fully compliant with ISO PDF-X1a and ISO 12647 are put in OUTPUT folder . You can send them to any printer or print them in total security. [. . . ]