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Check a PDF for the reasons a print shop actually rejects a file — unembedded fonts, mixed page sizes, RGB images and low-resolution photos. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is changed.

Runs in your browser•Zero cloud uploads / Files stay on device•No account required

Drop your file here, or browse files

or paste screenshot / image withCtrl + V
application/pdf, .pdf

Read-only: this checks the file and reports what it finds. Nothing is changed, and nothing is uploaded — it downloads nothing either, because there is nothing to download.

Supported File Formats
PDF
Optimized For Platforms
documents

How it works

1Drop in the PDF — nothing leaves your browser.
2It checks four things: whether every font is embedded, whether every page is the same size, whether embedded images are RGB (print wants CMYK) or CMYK, and whether photos are placed at 300dpi or better.
3Each check reports pass, warning or issue, with the specific pages or fonts involved.
4This is a report, not a fix — an RGB image is flagged, not converted, because a browser has no CMYK output to convert it to.

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