Hi, everybody! David Dilling from Markzware here,
and today, we're here with yet another exciting release.
FlightCheck 6.80.
Alright, let's go check it out.
Graphic designers, publishers,
pre-press operators, printers, just cruise on over
to the FlightCheck
product page on markzware.com
and select FlightCheck here.
Download the
30-day free trial version.
FlightCheck 6.80 on our Macintosh here.
Okay, so, here's the FlightCheck
FlightStrip up top,
and it's very important to first go into the
Show Ground Controls.
And here in the Ground Controls, we can see all the different areas where FlightCheck can check for.
For instance, in Images,
we can see all the different checks available for checking our images.
You'll see we set up a default
set of checks
that are, let's say, most commonly used to find the most common problems.
We have excellent instructional tutorials
on how to use
the Ground Controls, and FlightCheck in general, on YouTube,
and you can check out the link down below.
To preflight a file, you can drag and drop a file onto the FlightCheck icon;
or you can just go here to File > Open.
You'll see very quickly that FlightCheck gives us a results screen and you'll notice,
in this case
in red, the particular problems that we have.
In the next screen, we'll get all the details of that file.
In the main FlightCheck window, we can see the type of file it is, in this case, an
Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 file,
and we see that ICC profile which was used.
We get all the elements
of the file, page info, print info, page list,
and even supporting,
which would be where you see plugins or extensions used;
but the main areas - your colors, fonts, images - where you're going to get the most out of
FlightCheck, especially as a designer or prepress operator.
For instance, in the Image section, we very quickly see this image has fonts used within
it
Photoshop, a .psd native file with fonts used and we get a small preview
even of how that looks.
Here's all of the fonts which are used.
We can even open this image to edit it further, if we wanted to
New in FlightCheck 6.80
for printers, publishers,
and graphic designers,
is the ability to CS5.5 all files: so, Photoshop, Illustrator,
InDesign,
and PDFs created from those files, as well;
and also newly added is QuarkXPress 9 support.
Furthermore in FlightCheck, we now have added Mac OS 10.7
for Lion support,
which has been added also into the new FlightCheck v6.80. Now, I want to show you a very cool feature in this
FlightCheck v6.80 for graphic designers, as well as people archiving
and on the printing side,
and that is how can we
package a Photoshop file?
How can we package
Illustrator artwork. So, to package an InDesign file, to collect a QuarkXPress file,
to package a Photoshop file with fonts,
is very easy with FlightCheck and CS5.5 or lower has no package
feature for Photoshop and, for that matter, also not for Illustrator,
nor can they preflight the file in Photoshop or Illustrator, as well.
FlightCheck can do it all: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator,
even Quark.
You just go up here to what we call Collect Job. You select Collect Job and you'll
get the next Collect screen.
Let's call it the package job,
but that's the Adobe terminology.
The collect job window or package job window
has a lot of details. You can create an individual folder, and even
make a specific archive and location for that to be saved to.
What I like, and a lot of our users like, you can also compress the job.
This makes it easy for you to send to the next party, for instance, as the designer, to the
printer,
or as somebody as layout artist
within a publishing company, to the prepress department.
We see here all the collectable or packageable file classes.
We see the document itself,
font files, the suitcases used, the Type 1 Font Files,
and we'll even get a preflight report. And then you simply hit
Collect Job and the Collect button.
It's that easy!
Here's the file with the name we just gave it,
and if we
decompress that,
we'll get a folder
and in that folder, we'll get the report, the preflight report we just discussed.
We'll see a copy of the .psd file,
and
all the fonts
used in that job.
So, those are some of the new features in FlightCheck 6.80.
There is a lot more, a lot more under,
under the hood, so to speak,
(chime sounds)
There are a lot of things, like Auto Preflight Detection,
which is a very powerful
set of rules where you can... For a PDF file,
you're going to have a different set of checks that for a native Illustrator file or
for an InDesign file.
Very powerful tools
that are within
FlightCheck 6.80.
Also, under Views >
Show Page Layout
is vital for any designer or prepress operator who wants to actually go back and fix
the problems. There is,
like I said before, a FlightCheck FlightStrip,
where you can see all the nice icons
and quickly go to Page Layout or your Preferences, or your Ground Controls.
Alright, folks, that's been FlightCheck 6.80 from Markzware.
Do you want to buy FlightCheck today? What I recommend you do is cruise on over to our web page.
To order FlightCheck, just go to the web page
markzware.com/products/flightcheck
and click the Buy Now button.
It'll be one investment
you'll be very glad you made.
Not only will FlightCheck help you to find problems in your files,
it'll help you to organize and package or collect
your files for archiving or sending to the next party.
Extremely handy!
With one application on the Macintosh, you can do all these great things.
Quality assurance preflight check
and package, not only InDesign and Quark,
but also your Photoshop
and your Illustrator artwork.
Very handy to have around in the old toolbox.
Thank you. David Dilling for Markzware,
signing off.