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PDF Preflight

Inspect a PDF locally in your browser to review document metadata, page geometry, standards markers, output profiles, color spaces, and spot colors.

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A fast technical overview of a PDF

Drop one PDF to inspect version, size, page count, document properties, dates and the first page's dimensions and likely paper format. A rendered first-page preview provides visual context.

Production-oriented details

  • Read embedded PDF/A and PDF/X identifiers.
  • Review output intents and ICC profile information.
  • Detect available RGB, CMYK and named spot colors.
  • Inspect Info dictionary and XMP metadata.

Open the file, wait for local analysis and review the document, geometry, standards, color and raw-metadata cards.

For a quick technical first pass

Designers, print-production teams, document specialists, developers and support staff get an initial overview when a complete prepress suite is unavailable or a potentially sensitive PDF should not be uploaded.

Local processing and limits

The PDF stays in the current browser session and is not uploaded. This is a preliminary inspection, not full conformance or print validation: only the first page is rendered and measured, color detection is best effort, and fonts, bleed, overprint, transparency and image resolution are not checked. Encrypted, password-protected, damaged, very large or unusually complex files may fail. Only one PDF can be processed at a time, and results cannot be exported.

File selection, language and theme controls work from the keyboard, and extracted details appear in text tables. The page preview has no equivalent description, loading and result changes are not announced to assistive technology, and the animated icon ignores reduced-motion settings. Google Fonts, cdnjs and unpkg supply fonts and PDF libraries without receiving the document itself.