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by nikj
Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:10 pm
Forum: Preflighting
Topic: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions
Replies: 9
Views: 20741

Re: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions

I've created the following action and I intend to run this before my PitStop Preflight Profile is run: • Select all • Select grayscale images • Select if image resolution less than 201dpi • AND • Resample image So far this is upsampling only grayscale images that have a resolution lower than 201dpi,...
by nikj
Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:53 pm
Forum: Preflighting
Topic: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions
Replies: 9
Views: 20741

Re: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions

Hi Freddy,

thanks for your reply.

Are you saying that I could select the black and white images in an action then force them to upsample to a minimum res and then preflight it using my existing profile?

I get what you're saying about different colour shadows.

Thanks,
Nik
by nikj
Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:00 am
Forum: Preflighting
Topic: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions
Replies: 9
Views: 20741

Re: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions

Hi, many thanks for your reply. I think your approach is probably the way I need to go. We preflight files that can be as small as a business card or over 6 metres wide and although I dynamically set the preflight resolution based on the size, the ratio isn't perfect, this is only complicated furthe...
by nikj
Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:57 am
Forum: Preflighting
Topic: Ignore Drop shadow resolutions
Replies: 9
Views: 20741

Ignore Drop shadow resolutions

Hi, I have a preflight profile that's set to fail images that are under a specific ppi, unfortunately when a pdf contains a drop shadow that's been created in InDesign the PDFs fail due to lowres images. Even when the Transparency flattener settings are set to the highest in the document the drop sh...