Preflight Preferences

The Preflight Preferences section contains all of the Preflight settings (including PDF/A & PDF/X conversion and verification) for PDF Studio.

To open the Preflight Preferences dialog:

1. Go to File Tab > Preferences
2. Select Preflight from the panel on the left of the preferences dialog to view or modify these preferences.

Settings

PDF/A Conversion - Settings that apply when converting a document to PDF/A

Unsupported Annotations: whether to delete or warn when unsupported annotations are detected.
Transparency: whether to remove or warn when transparency is detected in images.
Embedded Files: whether to delete or warn when embedded files are detected.

PDF/X Conversion - Settings that apply when converting a document to PDF/X

Unsupported Annotations: whether to delete or warn when unsupported annotations are detected.
Transparency: whether to remove or warn when transparency is detected in images.
Image Compression: The value of this setting is only used on images that must be modified because either their color space and/or their current compression type is not pdf/x compliant. Images already having a valid color space and a different but pdf/x compliant compression type will not be converted to use this compression type.
Output Profile: Choose the ICC profile to set when converting images.
Embedded Files: whether to delete or warn when embedded files are detected.

Options - Additional Preflight conversion settings

Show information dialog: whether to show a dialog explaining how the below options will be handled before starting the conversion
Enable saving to original file: Once modified, PDF Studio clears the PDF/A tag from the document. This option enables the "Save" button which allows the original file to be overwritten with no tag. Otherwise only "Save As" will be enabled to prevent overwriting the original document without the PDF/A tags.
Retain PDF/A format on Save or Save As:O nce modified, PDF Studio clears the PDF/A tag from the document. When this option is enabled PDF Studio will attempt to reconvert the document back to the same PDF/A tag version (if supported).