FlightCheck Professional Demonstration Video

Published September 20, 2010 | By Bman

In this instructional demonstration of FlightCheck Professional you will learn the basics of how to start preflighting your digital documents before going to print. This is for creators, designers, layout artists, prepress operators, publishers and printers alike. Part of what you will learn is below. The Ground Controls are the heart of FlightCheck and with a little time and effort making the right settings, you will gain maximum profit of its possibilities. As you can see, there are a lot of rules FlightCheck can check for and without going over them all, you see that we have tabs for File settings, colors, pages, trapping, page setup, fonts, print settings and of course a huge tab for images. To set a rule to either give you a warning or an error, you simply click on it. One click will give you a small dot; FlightCheck will give you a warning if in this case an ICC profile is found. A second click will show a big dot; giving you an error if the item is found. A third click will turn the rule off. Please note that the rules you just saw where the rules for checking Open File Types like InDesign, Quark, Illustrator, et cetera but since checking PDF files is something totally different from checking Open Files, Markzware created special Ground Controls for checking PDF files. Just go to the File menu, select ‘Preflight Mode’ and choose the PDF set of the language of your choice. As you can see only errors — in red — and warnings — in blue — are present here. Clicking …