I work for a newspaper. We were using Pitstop Professional to preflight all the files that come in from clients. Now that we have upgraded our whole design area from QuarkXPress to CS3, I was hoping to be able to use the built in preflight that Acrobat 9 has. I set up my own custom profile to try to emmulate our current pitstop preflight settings. When I use the "Analyze" button, t seems to flag all the right stuff, but when I use the "Analyze and Fix" button it doesn't seem to fix the items I have asked for it to fix.
For example I have a colour page that I need in grayscale. I used the convert to grayscale "fix" that is available in the Acrobat preflight. The report tells me that it converted all the objects to grayscale, but the page is clearly still in colour. I am wondering if it's just buggy or if i am doing something wrong.
I would hate to have to spend $3600 to upgrade the Pitstop Professional (for 9 people) if Acrobat will do the same thing.
Any input would be appreciated.
Without a complete feature by feature slug-fest, I can't honestly tell you that 9 can do everything that PitStop can, but this particular task is within the scope of what Acrobat can do.
If it isn't working as I describe, then there is something unique about your install that is causing the problem.
I am a long-time Acrobat user, an employee of Adobe Systems, and Maine native. I have created training videos for Total Training, consulted with people to help them better use Acrobat, and developed new business for Adobe as a Business Development Manager