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Originally Posted by Tech
I don't think Adobe intended to have life preflight as "be all end all" tool for designers nor meant to kill off pro level work. I just dislike the thought they are pitching this function to designers as if though it will save them from design mistakes or bad layout creation. Live Preflight is a step up from CS3 version but still a mini-version of what Acrobat Prof does and certainly far behind PitStop plugin.
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I see the live-preflight in InDesign as a another nice tool for the professional designer to help him avoid mistakes. Especially mistakes that would go unnoticed otherwise: untagged RGB images in the layout which get converted to CMYK upon output and won't be catched by a preflight of the PDF, for example.
The non-pro-level worker will most likely not know about this feature, won't turn it on, use wrong settings ("the error went away after I changed the settings to ignore resolution of images") or simply doesn't understand what the error messages mean.
The professional will have checked his final PDF with a preflight anyway, InDesigns new feature just takes some of this and puts it earlier in his workflow. In most cases, noticing a problem earlier equals less stress and time spent to solve the problem.
