HI, everybody! Got a great one here from a customer of ours that's looking for a...
helping out a colleague
who wants
a tool that can help them get more than just the basic info of the font. They want to know the
font name, the version, the foundary, etc.
as much detail as possible, can FlightCheck do that?
Well, very good question.
We've been asked before, and, yes, it can
and perhaps a lot more.
First, let's... Let's firstly open a file here.
Pre-flight the entire file.
As many of you know, FlightCheck will check 50+ file formats and let you know what's
inside, and, based on the Ground Controls of the preflight profiles, will
let you know what might be a problem, before making the PDF or outputting or
otherwise printing.
Very handy!
We see a lot of people using FlightCheck today and
it seems to be having a bit of resurgence, which is great.
Quality seems to be the focus,
maybe because the
Toyota issues might, you know, having people think a bit more about quality again
here.
It's a big issue, of course.
Alright. First, you get a nice little Results window, with all the information.
Right away, we see some interesting things on the fonts.
We see some fonts are too small
than what we've asked to check against, but anyway these
are just our settings, it might not be a particular problem, in this case, but anyway, we
get all the information, information
on the file.
We see some resolution problems and we go in and we'll see the complete overview.
Of course, in this case, we don't need to look for custom
extensions used,
things like that. This will do the same thing with InDesign or
of course, Quark here, and many other files, Illustrator included,
which is also quite handy.
Alright. We see right away we got the fonts we see...
how they are used, whether the
printer font is available,
whether the screen font's available, whether the fonts are used in an image or not.
We get the font name,
the printer font, file name
that corresponds with the screen font,
the style, the type, the version, the exact version you see here,
very small details.
Maybe zoom in a bit here.
...
We see the manufacturer,
and we can click in and get even more details
on the file.
So, quite a bit of information,
and we can toggle around. It will show us
all fonts. We can see
the font over here,
and we can get
full details
on the font and how it's used.
So, that's very handy.
You can also see, of course, the color usage and other things,
but there's a little bit more to the fonts, as well.
It might not be exactly
for this customer's question; however,
it is neat to show you in the Preferences, where you can do a lot of
neat things.
And one of the neat things is searching for a particular...
for images and fonts, in particular areas on your hard drive. You can make an
absolute path. You can choose a particular folder and have it scan that folder
for any jobs come in, so the font doesn't show as missing
and get the details of the font.
So, a very cool little feature here,
and lots of other neat things you can do
...
Last, but not least, the Ground Controls which I had touched on earlier, where you can check
for all different
items in your file.
Blue is a warning and red is an error,
and, if nothing is clicked, that means it's not being checked for.
So, you see, here in Fonts, I get a lot of great information.
I can see if active or not. I can see it's embedded.
I can even make a particular list
to look for specific fonts
and I can see specific sizes used, like I said,
low, small size.
If it's an
unused font
you might want to be warned about that, so you won't make an error,
text shadowing, a lot of different information you can get here on the fonts, basically everything
that's available on the font, we're going to pretty much report on.
And that's that. FlightCheck is a great tool for checking your entire
array of desktop publishing
files for many problems. It's also great
just for fonts. I'm quite sure this will help this customer and hopefully you can find out how
useful FlightCheck is for you, too.
So, that's David Dilling here, signing off for Markzware. And have a great day!