Deliver a clean document with useful evidence
Finish the inspection, remove the active visualization and save a report that matches the final document.
- Goal
- A clean proof and retained evidence with known scope and privacy boundaries.
- Starting profile
- The intended final profile
- Include
- White Space + Styles + Typography
Prepare a representative pass
Finish the inspection, remove the active visualization and save a report that matches the final document. Use a saved working copy, identify the intended active document, and check the inspection scope before interpreting a result. A profile is an inspection brief, not a command to repair the document.
Follow the workflow
- Finish or revert any active live preview. Inspect the intended final scope with the agreed modules, profile and language policy.
- Review accepted exceptions and any omitted tables, footnotes or unsupported structures directly in InDesign.
- In Logs, use Copy document report for current single-document diagnostic JSON and save the copied content with the job.
- For Publication, distinguish Copy draft report from Copy publication report and review membership, warnings and completion state.
- Clear issue marks or use Clear Style Map for the active map. Inspect Conditional Text and the visible page; non-printing diagnostics can persist when saved.
- Run Preflight and human proofreading, inspect a clean exported proof PDF and save the intended clean document version.
Read Typography advice before editing
Select a finding and read Found, Suggested when offered, and Text locale. Review in context gives guidance without a guessed replacement. Advice itself edits no text. Verify meaning, make a deliberate edit in InDesign if justified, then inspect again. Read the full recommendation workflow →
How to recognize a finished pass
- The report is current for the intended final scope.
- The clean document contains only intended production state.
- The exported proof has been inspected independently of counters.
Where judgement matters
- Publication reports retain document names; colour maps retain style paths.
- Copy last issue contains the actual message and deserves review before sharing.
Does a finding mean I must change the document?
No. Check intent, scope, current evidence and available actions. Retaining an intentional occurrence can be the correct decision. Record the supported review status when useful; it does not edit the source text.