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Hi Guys,

Looking for some advice to add in a pre-flight profile where I can get Pit Stop Server to check if any text is smaller than 7pt and less than say a 70% tint of one separation (normally Black) and flag as error?

Many thanks

Dan

In version 2018 there was a change in the "Check ink coverage (total page check)" action. It now allows to set a maximum ink usage per separation. This is kind of what you request, except it is not possible to limit it only to text. Is this sufficient for you?

Once you create an Action List like in the below screenshot, then you can add it to your preflight profile. You can do this in the Action List category of the preflight profile editor.
Edit: Sometimes the documentation lists the new features in more detail then the blog posts
http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/Extra/Ac ... n2018.html

Thanks for the reply, I think your suggestion will end up flagging up errors in most files as it's just text that is causing issue. For example if I have a 30% tint of black making up a 4 colour image that's fine, but if there were some small text in 30% Black only then that would cause issue.

Thanks

Dan

Create Action List with the following:
1. Select CMYK fill color

1. Check Fill color
2. Color space: CMYK
3. Black from 1 to X% (Start with 1% so that knock-out type isn't flagged)

2. Select gray fill color

1. Check Fill color
2. Color space: gray
3. Gray from X to 99% (Y being the inverse of darkest screen needed, i.e. 20-99 will flag 1-80% black)

3. Operator
OR

4. Select text if point size is less than Z pt

5. Operator
AND

6. Log Selection

1. Log a message if objects are selected
2. Check Report the type of page and document objects
3. Enter text in Log Message field
4. Set Log in lower left corner to Log as warning

Create/Edit Preflight Profile
Select Action Lists

1. Check Enable checks without restriction
2. Go to left available icon under Checks
3. Select Action List and OK

When Preflight profile is run text that is smaller than Z that is either CMYK less than X or grayscale more than Y will be warned against with the text in the Log Message Field.

Attached is an action list I built to flag text smaller than 12 pt with less than 80% Black.

Thanks very much Justin for taking the time to do that.

Best

Dan