Flightcheck Designer is a nice software application that will check your digital files for the all important quality control or preflight check before you send them to the printer. In this Video tutorial we will show you all the neat things you can do with this program. http://www.markzware-europe.com/
Partial transcript of FlightCheck Designer video demonstration:
- FlightCheck (Pro and Designer) are the only stand alone desktop applications that will check 50 plus file formats, including Adobe Indesign, Quark XPress, PDF, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Word and Corell Draw, just to name a few. FlightCheck Design is created for those creatives and graphic designers whom need an accurate, but simple to understand quality control check (and advanced packaging of all fonts and images with the job) before sending off to the printer.
- Lets start with the most important one, the Ground Control button. Note that we designed a separate Ground Control windows, specially created for checking either Open File structures like Quark and InDesign or for checking PDF files. You can switch between them by choosing File, Preflight Mode, the language of your choice and PDF or Non PDF. When checking files, FlightCheck Designer will detect wether your document is a PDF or an open file type and will switch automatically to the right Ground Control set.
- Using the category tabs Colors, Fonts and Images, you have access to the wide variety of settings, all designed to check files before sending them off to the printer or into the workflow.
These are the options for activating such a rule; clicking it once, it will show a small dot. The rule is now set to give you a Warning; you may still proceed with the file, but you should keep an eye on this during the workflow. Examples where this might be used is for instance PMS color settings.
Clicking it again shows a big dot. The rule is now set to give you an error. When an Error is found, the file should be corrected before it is taken in production or sent off for it will certainly give you problems later on. Examples where you want to set the rule to an Error are Missing Images, low resolution, RGB colors etc.
- Whenever you are not sure what a rule checks for, just hoover over the rule name and FlightCheck Designer will explain it to you.
- This will open a window that allows you to open the file you want to examine. Note that you will only have to point to the actual document; FlightCheck will find the images and fonts used in the document for you.
Just select the file and click on the Open button at the bottom of the window.
FlightCheck Designer will now check your documents, the used images and the used fonts for errors; a very thorough check that would take a lot of time if you had to do this the 'eyeball method'.
- When it is ready checking your file, FlightCheck Designer shows two windows, the Result window and the General Overview window. Let's first have a look at the Result window.
- The Result Window displays all errors or warnings found checking the document with the Ground Control set you choose. The errors are displayed in red, the warnings in blue. This gives me already a ton of information about the document.
I can see that certain screen fonts are not installed, a printer font is not available, some images are in the RGB color mode, some pictures are off page and the effective resolution of these images are out of range, just to name some.
Note that the information in the Result window is far more effective when the proper Ground Controls are set in the Ground Control menu.
Note that far more information is available in this window then there was in the Result window. When we have a look at the Images section, we get instant information on the page the image is placed in the document, the status of the image (number 6 and 9 on the list), the file size, the type of image, the color mode (number 4 on the list), the DPI value of the original image, the scaling and the output resolution of the image (number 10 on our list). Note that FlightCheck Designer will calculate the output resolution and will act on that value. A 72 DPI image, scaled to 24 percent will still give you a 300 DPI output resolution, which is fine in most cases.
Last but not least you can collect. Only the report, saved as a text document or the whole document, including all used images and fonts.
This last option is absolutely great for it makes sure ALL used elements of the file will be collected or packaged and placed in a folder, either compressed or uncompressed, ready to send off!
- I hope this video gave you a good insight in FlightCheck Designer. Please have a look ate our site at www.markzware-europe.com for more information. Also have a look at FlightCheck Designers bigger brother, FlightCheck Professional that enables you to check even more!
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