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Fail If Possible Output Inconsistencies
Found v7.0.1

Resource Type:

Apogee Preflight Action List

Applies To:

Agfa Apogee Prepress 7.0 and higher
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What it does:

The Apogee Prepress action ap_Fail IfPossibleOutputInconsistenciesFound v7.0.1 checks if the document might be rendered differently by a non-Apogee renderer.
Some PDF constructs view differently than they are outputted and different versions of Acrobat don't necessarily behave the same. This Agfa Apogee Preflight action list will warn for such special PDF objects.


Downloads:

Click here to download the preflight resource.


Additional information for Prepress experts:

The preflight action will:

  1. Check the fonts for potential issues:
    • glyph's outline is crossed
    • glyph's outline has invalid direction
    • charstring includes invalid Hit-operator
    • charProc doesn't include D0-D1-operator
    • private Dict is empty
    • font matrix is not normalized
    • private Dict keys are not normalized
    • symbol 'Space' is omitted
    • symbol '.notdef' is omitted
    • eexec part is HEX encoded
    • charstrings includes Hint-operators which aren't situated at the beginning of charstring
    • duplicated CIDs are included
    • CID is out of range (CIDCount)
    • known problems with the font with the given name and version
    • font descriptor containing symbolic and non-symbolic flags enabled at the same time
    • font descriptor containing symbolic flag enabled whereas the font seems to be non-symbolic
  2. Detect potential overprint and transparency problems for spotcolors.
    The Preflight Action This will set the emulate flag correctly.
    The following issues can be detected:
    • A DeviceN or Separation object which contains one component that will be converted to the process colors is in overprint with a DeviceN or Separation object which will be printed or converted.
    • A DeviceN or Separation object for which all components will be printed out as a plate is in overprint with a DeviceN or Separation object which contains one component that will be converted to the process colors.
    • A DeviceN or Separation object which contains one component that will be converted to the process colors and is used with a non trivial transparency.