Preflight

Affinity Publisher's preflight check feature can be used to ensure that your document exports or prints as intended. The preflight check can be run on demand—e.g. prior to output—or 'live' on a continual basis.

Preflight

The Preflight panel.

Preflight checks the contents of your file for errors, ensuring the file is ready for print or export.

Preflight notifications

With preflight enabled, the Preflight panel's icon will change color to indicate whether warnings or errors have been detected in the document:

Editing the Preflight profile

The Preflight panel uses a default set of checks, but these can be customized. The Preflight panel's Options menu Edit profile function allows you to tailor preflight checking to your needs. You can control the severity level for preflight issues, set values and thresholds that trigger preflight warnings and errors, and control how placed documents work with preflight.

Errors and warnings

The Preflight panel displays a full list of warnings and errors it has found, allowing you to pinpoint and correct certain errors where they appear in your document.

The types of items that are listed are determined by the active preflight profile's settings. Two different icons may be shown to indicate severity:

The full list of preflight warnings and errors is as follows:

Double-tapping on an issue in the panel will take you to its location in the file. A Fix button beside certain issue types allows you to fix them immediately.

If enabled, preflight will be re-run on print and export. If there are errors (not warnings) in the file, a dialog offers the chance to abort the export and go to the Preflight panel to review the errors.

Preflight user comments

Preflight user comments can be added to objects in your publication using the desktop version of Affinity Publisher, creating a custom check to be made prior to print or export. This has many uses, including the ability to:

When a user comment is present in a document, it will be listed in the Preflight panel.

Preflight panel Panel Preferences To configure preflight settings:
Preflight panel Panel Preferences To save a preflight preset:
Preflight panel Panel Preferences To change the bleed hazard safe zone edge:
Preflight panel To enable preflight to check for issues:
Preflight panel To disable error checking:
Preflight panel To check for issues immediately:
To view an object marked with an issue in the file:
To automatically fix an issue in the file:

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