BookMasters®, Inc. - The Source for Publishers

30 Amberwood Parkway
Ashland, OH 44805
Toll Free: 1-800-537-6727
International: 1-419-281-5100
Fax: 1-419-281-0200

Sales Office Hours:
Monday - Friday,
8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. E.T.

 

How to preflight

If your job is already in production and you need to preflight your corrections please CLICK HERE.

  1. After you’ve created a PDF file following our "how to create a PDF file" instructions,
    CLICK HERE     to preflight the file.

  2. Type in the word "customer" as the username and click the "Login" button.

  3. Click the browse button and select the PDF file(s) you want to preflight (use the shift key to select multiple files

BookMasters

  1. Click the browse button and select the PDF file you want to preflight. Confirm the file you’ve chosen, then select the BookMasters profile from the drop down menu and click Inspect File. For multiple files please return to do individual flight checks for each file.

Welcome to the BookMasters online preflight page. Please note this process will only inspect your file, the PDF file will NOT be uploaded to the BookMasters' server.
From the dropdown box below please choose the appropriate profile for your PDF file inspection. Then click the "Browse..." button and browse to the PDF file located on your computer you wish to inspect, select it and click the "Open" button. You will see the file name appear to the left of the "Choose File" button. After this step is complete click the "Inspect File" button. This will begin the online preflight inspection. Please be patient for this process to complete, upon completion the summary PDF inspection results will appear. Should your report show errors or warnings for the inspected file, please use the links provided in the report to assist you in rectifying the problem and return here to run a new inspection analysis of your corrected file.

  1. The preflight process may take a few minutes depending on the size of the file you’ve submitted and your connection speed. (There is a 10mb file size limitation)
  2. Review your report. If there are any errors, go back to the page layout document that the PDF file was created from and resolve all the issues listed in the preflight report. (You can click on the Detailed Info button for a more in-depth report.) Make a new PDF file(s) and preflight again. Repeat this process until you receive a successful report.
  3. After you receive a successful Preflight inspection report, make a printout of it.

Print Job Report
Date: 1/10/2005 2:51:02 PM
Inspection (Report)
for Tracking Number: 372
Bookmasters Preflight has detected some possible problems in your document(s). Some of the conditions reported below may cause unexpected results during the printing of your file(s).

Caution severity means this issue may impact your file
Error severity means this issue will impact your file
Stop severity means you should not proceed until you have corrected this issue

Click any of the items listed below for
instructions on how to fix the problems listed.

PDF(Files)
PDF files were inspected using the BookMasters PDF profile.

Detail Report

File Name: 372_14733-Text.pdf

No problems detected

  1. You are now ready to send your files and a copy of the preflight report to your BookMasters Sales Rep.

 

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