US Patent No. 8489989 - Prepared by Attorney David Tran for Adobe and filed by Schwegman (SLWK)
Brief description: For some example embodiments, the preflight profiles may be selected from a list of preflight profiles. The selection may be performed via an interface. An example preflight profile selection interface is illustrated in FIG. 4. Interface 400 may include a list of preflight profiles 405-445. There may be a preflight profile 405 that has all the common rules, and it may always be included in a list of selected preflight profiles. In this example, each of the preflight profiles 410-445 may be associated with a client, a campaign, or a print provider. Each of the preflight profiles 405-445 may include rules that meet the requirements of the corresponding entity or object, and there may be conflicts among these rules. A user may select the preflight profiles 405, 410, 430 and 440, as illustrated in FIG. 4. For some example embodiments, selected preflight profiles may be globally associated with a workstation. A user may select one or more preflight profiles that the user always wants to apply to any documents that the user works on using that particular workstation. This global setting may be useful when the user always wants to apply the rules of certain preflight profiles (e.g., graphics related preflight profiles) regardless of the rules included in other preflight profiles (e.g., typeface related preflight profiles). The association of a workstation with one or more preflight profiles may be performed using software, hardware, or a combination of both. Besides the global settings described above, there may be different local settings as described herein. FIG. 5 illustrated an example of embedded preflight profiles, in accordance with some example embodiments. For some example embodiments, selected preflight profiles or references to the selected preflight profiles may be embedded in a document. Diagram 500 includes three documents 505-515. The document 505 includes embedded preflight profiles 520, 525. The document 510 includes embedded preflight profiles 520, 530. The document 515 includes embedded preflight profile 535.