Hello,
Can anyone advise me how to set up a preflight profile to check whether any text boxes have a transparency.
I'd like to be able to do this, as a customer recently provided a PDF where some text boxes had accidently been set to 86% transparency in InDesign, and being at 86% black isn't immediately obvious to see.
I know I can set a preflight profile to check any transparency used, but I want to isolate it to text boxes only, as the document contains many images, along with drop shadows, which the current check also highlights.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Anthony.
Whilst there is not an exact check for this - you can spoof one.
Typically the check would be for an object which belongs to a transparency group - but you want to check ONLY for text which has been applied live transparency. The great thing with the Acrobat 9 preflight is you can create different checks which 'fire' according to logic.
So you can use the check called 'belongs to a transparency group' and I've also added another check (and there are lots of permutations) to also check for text which has a fill. Therefore, the error will only 'fire' if both properties are met. Therefore if text with a fill does have transparency. Please note this is only for real / editable text and not outlined text which is now a vector path.
You might find other ways to enable this check to 'fire' based on point size above xx points etc., etc.
Hope this helps and all the best,
Jon
I've been using Acrobat since v1.0 and still get amazed by its power. An Acrobat ACE since 1999