The recommended first session

1. Protect the production file#

Work on a backed-up or versioned InDesign file. Avellio inspection is designed to be review-led, but the product can add temporary diagnostics and its Action Layer can modify document text or formatting when you explicitly execute a correction.

2. Run Health#

After activation, open Inspect Typography and run Health. Health checks the production build marker, host readiness, required modules, license interface, writable support directory, transaction state, and persistent palette reference.

3. Establish a visual baseline#

Open Inspect Styles, choose Native Shading (Fast, Recommended), select Co.Text, and run a Current Spread inspection. This reveals style distribution without immediately opening the broadest audit.

4. Run a cautious typography pass#

Open Inspect Typography, choose Conservative Proofing, confirm AUTO or an explicit locale, and start with Current Spread. Read the issue counts and inspect examples in context.

5. Run the authoritative audit#

When you need a Fix Plan, export, or production decision, choose the intended final scope and run the full Readability & Polish Audit. Visual inspection and Live Mode do not replace this current full audit.

6. Correct in the right order#

1. Read the Fix Plan summary.
2. Preview Apply All Safe Fixes before confirming the batch.
3. Open Review Queue and decide contextual items one by one.
4. Resolve manual-only findings in InDesign.
5. Visually inspect the result.
6. Rerun the full audit because the previous plan becomes stale after document changes.

Apply Selected Safe Fixes is visible but disabled in this release. Use the guarded full Safe Clean batch or individual Review Queue actions.

7. Clean and deliver#

Use Erase Highlights, inspect InDesign's Layers and Conditional Text panels for retained technical items, save a new version, and export a proof PDF. Run native Preflight and human proofreading before final handoff.