Reviewing and identifying preflight warnings

Working through preflight errors is an efficient way to ensure your document is properly output and problems are not caused by errors that could have been easily fixed. Provided you use a properly configured preflight profile, you can simply work down the checklist one item at a time, resolving any problems and ignoring items listed that you know are not going to cause an issue.

In this recipe, we will look at how to review and identify errors in preflighting, fixing some example errors to show how the list updates live, and preflighting specific pages instead of the whole document.

Getting ready

In order to complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1.

You should be comfortable adding content to your documents in InDesign and, for this recipe, I will deliberately add some content with errors, including a text frame...