Hi, everybody. David Dilling here from Markzware.
I wanted to share with you a question we just got, which we've been asked before,
And it's a very useful tip, I believe,
particularly if using Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator, in this case CS3.
The question was can I use FlightCheck to, of course, pre-flight my Illustrator
files, but,
more importantly for this customer, can I package, can I collect all the
fonts and images used into one folder?
InDesign does this for their customers. Of course, FlightCheck does this as a stand-alone and
compresses the file, but Illustrator does not. Can FlightCheck help me?
In short, the answer is yes. So, let me show you how that works.
So, here we have the
Illustrator file,
and you'll see it's a,
you know, normal Illustrator file, you've got your images and all kind of things in there,
and we were just trying out different types of,
different types of things and,
you know, basically, a lot of times in Illustrator, if you were,
you know, fully done with this, you would just go in here
and select
your items
and go in to type
and you would just
create outlines that would take care of it.
You know, you wouldn't need to package your fonts up, they would just be sort of
embedded in the
file that we turned into outlines which,
you know, just creates
everything into a little
vector image, so to speak.
A little graphic.
But we need to pass onto somebody else these, edit
the text and the type
quite a bit
and change type and things like that.
So, there is no way to package up your Illustrator file. There isn't a way to
pre-flight, either, so we can get two birds with one stone. We won't save this.
We'll just now go and drop this on to
FlightCheck to show you how this works.
Now, FlightCheck is a stand-alone application,
which will pre-flight
fifty some-odd
file formats.
So, you can use it to
check your files and to
give you a full pre-flight check before you
go to print or
go to use it online,
so,
now we see FlightCheck processing and pre-flighting the file here,
and,
in this case, we're not going to print with this job, so it's not,
the pre-flight is not the main thing, and I'll just briefly go over that, but I just wanted to show you how we could
package the file, or package the fonts up
before we send off
to the next party.
So, there we got a little report, and once again we're going to see a lot of red, because we have
our Ground Controls here all set up
as such that they're set up
for print. We don't want any GIFs if we're going to go to print.
We don't want low-res images,
etc., etc.
In this case,
we can't worry too much about that.
We can just ignore a lot of these given problems here.
So, in the main interface, we see a lot of information. Once again, we see a lot of
low-res information here
and things
that we might need to check and
to do, to re-do, if we were going to print,
but for online, it's just fine.
We see all the fonts are here and that's the most important,
in this case, we were worried about giving someone in the next party all the fonts, so they
are used and active on our system.
So, that's when we're going to go to the next
part of this demonstration, which is the
collect job functionality,
and we select that. We get this, this window, with a lot of
possibilities.
We can collect, or package as it's called in the Adobe world,
everything up:
all your fonts,
all your images...
and even required plug-ins, in some cases, and
suitcase, and things like that, and even a report.
Now, we can also compress the job, which is quite useful for sending it on to the next party.
And that's what we'll do now.
It's really quite simple.
As soon as we hit Collect,
it's going to simply
collect that
entire job. (chime sounds)
You get a nice little...
Now, that's kind of neat, yeah.
That's kind of a nice little thing,
instead of having name clashes.
We had the same file on our desktop from an earlier
test run, so to speak.
And we get it here.
We get the zipped-up file,
we get a little FlightCheck icon,
which we'll zoom in on here,
which says,
you know, watch out.
Has some errors,
but when we decompress that file,
what we see is we get a nice little
folder with all
used fonts,
all used images,
a little report,
a little pre-flight report, and the native Illustrator file.
It's a great packaging
tool to use, both for InDesign, as well
as Illustrator and Quark, and many other file formats, because it also compresses
everything for you.
So, there you go. That's a quick little demonstration of how to use Markzware's FlightCheck to
collect
everything, using your
Illustrator file, in this case, to be packaged up
and sent on to the next party, or archived or
many other uses for using it.
So, thank you for your time. David Dilling, signing off for Markzware.