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1. PreflightScope not working

   PreflightOptions.preflightScope in InDesign has not worked since at least CS 5.5. No matter what value is used, preflight checks the whole document. Here is a sample script (error for color image <250 ppi) that the issue can be tested:

   var currDoc = app.documents[0];
   if (app.preflightProfiles.itemByName("export").isValid){
           app.preflightProfiles.itemByName("export").remove();
   }
   var pfProfile = app.preflightProfiles.add({name: "export"});
   var pfResRule = pfProfile.preflightProfileRules.add("ADBE_ImageResolution", {flag: PreflightRuleFlag.returnAsError});
   pfResRule.ruleDataObjects.add("color_min_res", RuleDataType.realDataType, 250);
   currDoc.preflightOptions.preflightScope = '1-2';
   var pfProcess = app.preflightProcesses.add(currDoc, pfProfile);
   pfProcess.waitForProcess();
   pfResults = pfProcess.aggregatedResults[2];
   $.writeln(pfResults);
   

   ––> with a 3-page document with problems on pages 2 and 3, InDesign reports both problems despite the scope been set to ‘1-2’ (same with ‘1’ and ‘1,2’)

   We would very much like to speed our preflight process and get rid of the tedious parsing of preflight results only to discard pages not set in the scope.

   One additional note on its behavior that could be fixed, too: if you define a scope that includes page numbers not in the document, either as
   - a range e.g. "1-5" when document has pages numbers 1,4,5,6,... or
   - e.g. "14" when the document has only 12 pages
   ––> InDesign throws an error "Error 30477: Invalid value for set property 'preflightScope'. Expected PreflightScopeOptions enumerator or String, but received "1-5".", which is quite misleading.

   PreflightOptions.preflightScope in InDesign has not worked since at least CS 5.5. No matter what value is used, preflight checks the whole document. Here is a sample script (error for color image <250 ppi) that the issue can be tested:

   var currDoc = app.documents[0];
   if (app.preflightProfiles.itemByName("export").isValid){
           app.preflightProfiles.itemByName("export").remove();
   }
   var pfProfile = app.preflightProfiles.add({name: "export"});
   var pfResRule = pfProfile.preflightProfileRules.add("ADBE_ImageResolution", {flag: PreflightRuleFlag.returnAsError});
   pfResRule.ruleDataObjects.add("color_min_res", RuleDataType.realDataType, 250);
   currDoc.preflightOptions.preflightScope = '1-2';
   var pfProcess = app.preflightProcesses.add(currDoc, pfProfile);
   pfProcess.waitForProcess();
   pfResults = pfProcess.aggregatedResults[2];
   $.writeln(pfResults);
   

   ––> with a 3-page document with problems on pages 2 and 3, InDesign reports both problems despite the scope been set to ‘1-2’ (same with ‘1’… more

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   Under Review  ·  amaarora responded

   Thanks for reporting
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