Adobe InDesign "preflight" vs Markzware's FlightCheck

Preflighting or checking your digital layout before outputting to PDF and going to print is a real must for those concerned about quality. Adobe's InDesign has what they call a "preflight" function built-in. With this video we will compare Markzware's FlightCheck Professional to Adobe InDesign CS3's built-in "prelfighting."

See why we argue it is _not_ "true" preflighting that InDesign is offering in the first place and how easy and comprehensive FlightCheck Professional v6.1 is. The fact that you can not create a preflight rule-set within Adobe InDesign's preflight function (their are no preferences for it even!) makes it virtually useless for a serious preflighter, even before we go tit-for-tat, feature for feature. Pretty interesting stuff.

Keep in mind that in addition to preflighting InDesign files, FlightCheck can check 50+ file formats. These include Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PDF, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Publisher, PowerPoint, Word and numerous image formats such as EPS, TIFF and even Postscript. It is as easy as drag-and-drop and you get the vital, interactive preflight reports you need...
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Intro Text:
Hello, my name is David Dilling from Markzware. Over the years, we have seen more and more seemingly thinking that they are getting full-fledged "preflight" via Adobe InDesign's built-in preflight and gathering tool. I am here to tell you that this is simply not true.

Furthermore, even calling it a "preflight" function is stretching it, as the tool is NOT rules-based. Meaning you can not set-up what you want to check for. It just provides info on colors, fonts and images and pretty limited at that. Yes, it is perhaps useful, in a certain sense, however far from a professional preflight tool.

Sitting next to me today is Arnold Roosch, one of our workflow specialists. I should add that Arnold comes to Markzware after 15 years experience within the preflight depatment at two large printing firms. In other words- he generally knows what he is talking about here..

Arnold, could you show us some of the main advantages of Markzware's FlightCheck Professional over that of Adobe InDesign's built in feature?

http://www.markzware-europe.com/store/flightcheck

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Science & Technology

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• indesign
• adobe_indesign
• preflight
• preflight_and_package
• flightcheck
• markzware
• flightcheck_professional
• pdf_quality
• prin

[konarttis]

great video, very informative

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Unfair comparison: Markzware FlightCheck 6 Professional is simply the best pre-flight software available anywhere at any price -- and Adobe InDesign is a re-write of Adobe PageMaker, upgraded to compete with QuarkXPress.