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So ‘Prefer Embedded Output Intent…’ deals with whether to use or ignore the Output Intent of the input PDF file. The other consideration is the placement or preservation of Output Intent in files after processing by Prinergy. I discuss this This is discussed in more detail below.
Output Intent is often talked about in the context of PDF/X, but including an output intent doesn’t mean that the file is a PDF/X file. Any PDF file may have an output intent; a PDF/X file must have an output intent. But prior to version 9.5, Prinergy produced a meaningful output intent only if you specified Refine to generate PDF/X-1a and then explicitly selected Output Intent: "Use ColorConvert Destination profile …" in Normalize. It's expected that few customers used this capability, priori to Prinergy 9.5. But now Prinergy allows you to embed output intent into any Refined PDF.
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