Hi. David Dilling from Markzware here.
Actually, this is in reply to a forum post over on the Adobe forums on the InDesign
section
and the last post was from Sharpo and he brings up a good point that the discussion
sort of twisted into more about Illustrator
and its ability to collect or package
the fonts and images that might be placed within an Illustrator layout.
So,
he mentions
the point of this post from the original
post was
"Does 'Package' collect Illustrator links?"
He mentions it's clear the answer is no, at least within InDesign.
And if we scroll up here we'll see my post about
how FlightCheck can also collect, not only InDesign, but the Illustrator file.
Many people will use, as mentioned in this thread,
images
or placed images within an Illustrator file,
almost like they would a layout in InDdesign, because they need to pass it on
to somebody else in the workflow
before everything is embedded and flattened,
and before the fonts are turned to outline.
What I want to show you right now is how Markzware FlightCheck
v6.76
can actually package
that for you,
and I will show that to you right now.
Alright. So, here I am in Adobe Illustrator
uh...
CS5
and
what I've done here is I've just taken a little slide I had with a,
with a quality assurance quote
and I placed
some, some images in here:
the Markzware logo and I made a special...
um...
screenshot for another link file.
Oh, the Q2ID, or Quark to InDesign,
conversion filter, so that's just a logo of it.
So, you see here what I have.
I can close this off
and I can now go into InDesign
and I can open up
the test file I've created.
You can see I've added to the second page here,
in addition to the
nice little ad we had here on the first page I used as a test file.
Um...
I've added in this...
this
placed
Adobe Illustrator file.
Bring the links in here. We can see
it sees the Adobe Illustrator file, but it doesn't see the images
placed
within it.
It sees the other files I used on page one but on page two, it doesn't see
the uh...
the place images.
So,
and likely not the fonts either, that's a good question.
I'll research that later.
Okay, so now we save this file out, which I've already done,
and I go and we'll use FlightCheck and see how... what that tells us.
Okay, so what does FlightCheck tell us?
You see here, the document being preflighted. It'll check
InDesign, Illustrator, and package them both, as well as Photoshop, PDF,
QuarkXPress, etc.
Alright. Let's take a closer look.
Alright, so here, we get first the Results window. We see an overview of all the
potential problems
red being what we've asked to be flagged as a problem,
and blue as a warning for whatever reason. The main overview here, so we get most of the
information on your
layout or document.
Supporting is where you see if any plugins were used.
File info, you see the version of the...
InDesign. You'll see all different information: Print Info
and of course the main Color, Fonts and Images. In this case, I want to really
concentrate,
although fonts and colors are very important, on the Images section for this
movie.
Alright. So, here we see now the Images section only,
and you'll see all the different images used on...
but you'll also notice
we have here this... a little... It's hard to see, maybe, in this film,
but we have here an icon that is Adobe Illustrator,
and we see also that there are
fonts embedded within
the Illustrator file.
And if you hover over, you can see what they are.
Futura Bold and Myriad Pro-Regular,
and you
get more information that image if we double-click it.
So,
FlightCheck will see the Adobe Illustrator file is used within the...
within the layout,
but we also see
the actual
image that you just saw was placed in that Adobe Illustrator file.
And we give a preview
and we can shows if there are any fonts used within that, etc. So, now the next part is:
let's collect
the job.
So, we get all the fonts and images
that are used within this InDesign layout, including
the Illustrator
native file with placed images within that itself and its fonts.
Let's collect that entire job with FlightCheck 6.76 for Macintosh.
Now, of course, I should go over all the different preflight problems we have
here, RGB images used and...
and effective resolution not up to standard, based on the size of the images
used or stretched to,
and, of course, that's all done within our Ground Controls that we set that up with,
but there's other movies on that on our YouTube channel, on our blog at
markzware.com, which you can check out. For now, we're just going to collect this job.
Here, we get the Collect Job dialogue.
We can even compress the job, which is quite handy.
We can collect or package the document,
all the used images, and I mean all used and placed images, even within other
placed images,
the fonts, even their suitcase, printer fonts and even a report for the job.
So, now we get in down here and we can see all the different files
and here we see a...
the one we just created
just a minute ago.
So, now
we hit Collect. I don't need to compress it, in this case, but that's very handy for if you're going
to send it to another party.
You can choose where you want to collect to,
get the size of the job I collect,
or, in better Adobe terminology, collect...
package the job,
and we do that,
and we see the process there. (chime sounds)
We get the signal that it's done.
And when I open up the file,
and I'll bring that into view here,
what you get is
the report,
the actual document copied over again, the InDesign document, the layout,
and remember, this will do the same for Illustrator, native Illustrator files, it will
collect them, as well.
You get all your fonts in a
Fonts folder
and you get all your images
in an Images folder.
And there you see,
it got all of the images,
including all the images that were linked and on page one, I didn't link those
images back up.
It got all of the Adobe Illustrator
native
file,
which is like a PDF placed within the InDesign file
and it gets all of the
placed images that were, not embedded,
but used within that file.
That's what FlightCheck 6.76 can do for you.
It can help you collect your InDesign files, and get all
available elements
packaged up.
Same thing with Adobe Illustrator and many other file formats.
So, that was FlightCheck 6.76 and how it can
package
InDesign layouts which have
Illustrator
files placed within them, and, inside the Illustrator file, images place within
there,
and linked within there, but not embedded.
And you see how FlightCheck will, not only pre-flight and help you stop problems within
those files, but also package them.
This is David Dilling from Markzware.
Please check out FlightCheck on markzware.com
Thank you. I'm sure you'll find FlightCheck very useful. Try the 30-day demo today
and have a great day!