Adobe Acrobat 9 was announced over this weekend. It has a variety of new features and functions including Flash built-in and several online options, such as Buzzword and Connect. Another option which has supposedly been enhanced is their preflight feature, or postflight as we like to call it. This is powered by Callas Software in Germany.

“On June 2nd, 2008, Adobe Systems Inc. announced Acrobat 9. And for the fourth time since 2003, there is callas software’s technology inside in the form of Preflight. Throughout the last five years Preflight has turned into the reference implementation when it comes to X-raying PDFs.”
SOURCE: Graphicstart.com

There are many plugins that offer useful enhancements to Adobe InDesign. Here is one that claims to offer error-free output from Badia called Printools.

Badia Printools for Adobe InDesign CS3 provides prepress and printing professionals with a powerful collection of printing tools for automated and error-free output. In one comprehensive package you get batch printing of multiple documents, rename at print, print to file in different formats, and preflighting. You can even combine several of these tools during the same print session to streamline complex printing tasks.
SOURCE: www.pluginsworld.com via Graphicstart.com

You may also want to watch this video on InDesign’s preflighting as well.