Hi, everybody! David Dilling from Markzware.
Some of you may have noticed a new release on our webpage.
Perhaps, you saw a tweet on Twitter or
you've read about it in the larger press,
but if we click here on that new release,
you'll read that our press department today
announces the release of FlightCheck
v6.76 for Macintosh.
Now, this is very important, because it's a free update for anyone who has
FlightCheck v6.5 or higher.
And besides some of the interface changes that it discusses,
two very important changes I'd like to highlight to you right now:
The first of which being
it's improved handling for
many of the layout application file formats we support,
but, in particular,
Adobe Illustrator. Now, of course, we check InDesign and QuarkXPress. We're going get to that
in a moment, and PDF, and Photoshop, and
EPS, TIFF, you can... pretty much, you name it.
But, with Illustrator, the handling has really improved
and we can,
like we always have, actually, we can pre-flight and package the entire file. Now I'd like to
highlight this in a little more detail and show you one other very
important new feature in FlightCheck
6.76, now available.
Now, that's one of the beauties of FlightCheck, I can take any file,
I can drop an EPS, a PDF, I could drop an
InDesign, I can drop, in this case, the Adobe Illustrator file right on
the FlightCheck icon here,
and it gets to work for me.
It's that easy! (FlightCheck eagle screeches)
So, there we see FlightCheck check the Illustrator file here. We get a FlightCheck Results page
with the overview, and we'll have a new video demonstration of FlightCheck later
on this month.
But in any event, you see how it checks the Illustrator file, and you get all the details
of that file: the colors, used fonts and images, Here, we see an EPSF,
and get all the details on that image.
So, FlightCheck
is the only application
stand-alone that will pre-flight
Adobe Illustrator files.
It's not built in the Creative Suite 5 or 4 or any of that.
We also can package, or as we call it, collect the job.
So, collect
your Adobe Illustrator file
with all of the fonts and images
that are used within the file
and even your suitcase
with a report,
everything you need.
Furthermore, even compressing the job, which is quite handy.
And we hit Collect
and that process starts. (chime sounds)
And we get the
sound that it's completed.
So, that's what we have - improved the handling of Illustrator files, of course,
you can set up your checks in your Ground Controls, which
we'll go over in more detail another time.
The last thing I want to show you that's been improved in FlightCheck
is its ability to...
let's go back to the press release here.
FlightCheck will treat each Quark layout as a separate document, so a new Quark...
so a new overview window will appear for each layout in the Quark file.
A single results window will show all the pre-flight data, so let's see how
that works.
We saw what it means for Illustrator,
how it can check any document, PDF,
EPS, Quark, pretty much any of it
Let's see how it handles new multi-layouts in Quark.
So, we'll take this Quark document and we'll just
drop it up on the FlightStrip.
Another way to check your file, many ways to check these files. (FlightCheck eagle screeches)
Right. So, like it said, we'll see the one Results screen with all information.
So we can see where
exactly
those problems are very quickly in the Results
window. Then, like the release said, we'll see
two overview windows.
So, here we see
the layout with this name,
and here we see
in the other...
the other layout.
Right. So, we get all the details in the file and now I can see it per layout
used within the...
the Quark file.
So, in QuarkXPress 8, you can have multiple layouts in any given document.
So, that's a handy new feature,
and, of course, also just like with the Illustrator files or with InDesign
files, we can also
collect the job
with all fonts and images
that are used
in that file. You can compress the job.
So, very handy,
indeed.
So, that was FlightCheck. To try out, I'll just cruise...
first cruise over
to our FlightCheck page on markzware.com
under Products.
We'll be able to see a video demonstration. We're going to update
that, like I said, in a couple weeks.
You can, of course, buy now or you can download and try the 30-day
free trial version.
FlightCheck once again will pre-flight numerous
file types.
Just like at an airport, the TSA are the people checking the people coming in,
the bags,
they're using x-rays,
and their going to check as often and as thoroughly as they can, of course,
in that case, to ensure safety. Well, the same thing applies with quality assurance.
You have to check, and you have to always check, and it has to be done on a regular basis.
And FlightCheck is that x-ray to help you quickly and easily
pre-flight
QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop,
PDFs,
pretty much, you name it, EPS, TIFF.
So,
download it today. Try out the free trial version
and see for yourself
why Markzware's FlightCheck is the predominant
pre-flight application on the market today. Stand-alone now out
as FlightCheck v6.76 for Macintosh.
Right. One other thing that I did want to show here
and
there is a lot on the FlightCheck page for you to check out
to gain insight into why this purchase is such a logical decision.
It's a very inexpensive and a very affordable product that will just help
improve
your bottom line, you know, left, right and center, really.
But for those who already have FlightCheck 6.5 or 6.75,
the update is free,
the upgrade for people on lower versions.
There are many of you still using FlightCheck 4 and 5.
You can upgrade for only 99 dollars under the
upgrade button down here.
A new copy is only 399
Euros or dollars and that's
also well worth its weight in gold.
In any event, for those that already have FlightCheck 6.5 or
6.75,
you can, under the Support section of our webpage, under
markzware.com,
go to Product Updaters and Installer Files.
You click there. You'll get a list of all of our products and the various updaters
available
for those applications,
extensions or Adobe InDesign plugins.
These also act as the full installer.
If I click on FlightCheck,
I'll get a new window
or I can then go in and download the latest version
6.76
and get that
for use within
our workflow
on my machine or in our department.
So, that's that. That's Markzware's new version of FlightCheck
6.76.
Thank you very much. This is David Dilling,
signing off.