Hi, everybody. David Dilling from
Markzware here. Today, we have a great quick
tip on how you can batch pre-flight
multiple files.
That's right, batch preflighting, not only
InDesign files, but also Illustrator,
Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and many others, even
mixing them all together. Very handy for
book publishers, but
anybody who needs to preflight multiple files,
whether it's just InDesign or whether it’s just
PDFs or whatever it might be,
can do so with Markzware's FlightCheck.
Alright, so here we are in FlightCheck,
and it’s a stand-alone application, so it's
real simple to batch pre-flight multiple files.
I just go grab a bunch of files
here. Doesn't matter what they are, CS3,
CS6, CC 2018. Drop them on FlightCheck, and it will go through and
pre-flight one after the other,
real fast and easy. (FlightCheck eagle screeches.) And then, what
we get, combined results with all the
potential errors. So, we can drill in and
see. Okay, where's my JPEGs? Where's my
GIFs? And these errors are all based on
what you set up in your Ground Controls,
which we have other videos on. You can,
you know, delve in deeper to that, there.
But if you say, well, you know, for instance,
JPEGs are not a problem. Turn
those off. It's more the resolution of the
files which is important, of course,
or the effective resolution. Anyway,
that's all on your Ground Controls.
Set those up. You set different sets and you
can check or even send them off to your
customers, to allow them to check.
This is where you see the potential problems.
Missing, right away, you know it's a problem.
Over here, you'll get the detailed
information on each file we just batch
preflighted. More importantly, the
resolution of these files is too low res.
So, it might it might not be missing.
I need to go check it out and get a
different image, or swap it out, or
whatever I need to do. Using that in a different
size can also fix the problem. So, you get
all your different problems here and you
go through and check them out and that's
how you batch pre-flight. So, I can take in all
different versions.
I can take a PDF. I can take an
Illustrator. I can take a QuarkXPress. And
I can drop them onto FlightCheck and do
the same thing, batch pre-flight.
Batch pre-flight many files at one go.
Checking Illustrator is very important.
It's something that Adobe doesn't offer, so you can
preflight your Illustrator
files with FlightCheck. Very handy.
Photoshop, as well, by the way. FlightCheck is just out with
CC 2018 support and lower,
of course. As you see here, a CC 2015 file,
if I believe the label. That’s the beauty of
FlightCheck. You don't have to just, you know,
trust what people say. You can verify it,
like an x-ray. And we get the same
situation, all the pre-flight files over
here, the list, so we can see the PDF. Once
I have all this, I can also do something, which is called
collect or package in the
InDesign world. So, I can package all these
InDesign, but also Illustrator and
Quark, files, and even the PDF, all together into
one archive, with all fonts,
all used fonts, and all used images and
placed graphics in one folder. That's
pretty cool. It’s that easy. Watch. (Computer chimes.)
Yeah, you might get that, if you have tons of files like that.
And if I open this up, what I
get is everything collected into one folder, a
report, all the individual files, and all the
fonts used, and, of course,
much more, but for this video, that's
where we're going to stop it right now. How to
batch pre-flight and package, with
Markzware's FlightCheck.
Well, thanks, everybody. That's how
Markzware's FlightCheck can help you
pre-flight multiple files and even
package them, as you saw. For more information,
cruise on over to markzware.com today and
there, you get full details on Markzware’s
FlightCheck, now with CC 2018
support and much more. Down below, you get a
demo version, but please don't forget
to click on the review section. There,
you'll get a lot of great details on how
other people are using and benefiting from
Markzware's FlightCheck, to do the
preflighting in their workflow. Thank you.
David Dilling from Markzware, wishing you a
fantastic day!