Overprint Preview, RGB, Image Resolution Acrobat v9

I recently started using Acrobat 9. There is 2 things I'm looking in V9.
1- Overprint Preview
2- All image resolutions in a HiRes pdf. I see a custom check profile called "resolution of color & grayscale images is between..." but I want image resolution is ...
3- Flag any RGB images used.
ThankYou

I'm sorry what I mean if a pdf have 35 images I would to see the image resolution of all of them independently if they are 72 or 600 dpi.

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Hi...
CS4, Win XP.
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PrepressPro1 wrote:
<snipped>... so if your looking for this forum to play detective and tell you who in your workflow set the elements to overprint, I don't think this can be done. I don't think I have ever seen Illustrator set any elements to overprint all by its self. <snipped>
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(1)
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(2)
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>Nikola Viereckel - 09:45pm Dec 9, 2007 Pacific
>
>Hi - I have recently discovered the above error message when I
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>
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>
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>
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>
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