For our French viewers; here is our FlightCheck Professional demonstration in French:
Le programme FlightCheck Professional de Markzware est un produit magnifique pour le PAO et les Concepteurs. Le logiciel vérifie (preflight) votre fichier avec des contrôles que vous avez fait, ils sont donc adapté à votre flux de travail. Regardez le film d’instruction pour voir comment FlightCheck marche.
Le programme FlightCheck de Markzware: (partie 1 de 2)
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne4JK0F6fsA#
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Le programme FlightCheck de Markzware: (partie 2 de 2)
This is a guest article by Emma Best from laptopical.com – a great website to read the latest laptop reviews and news. They have also recently added a twitter, so check it out! (We met Emma on Twitter!)
We all know that FlightCheck can check color, amongst hundreds of other potential preflight issues- but what is the best laptop (PC wise- we know Mac’s rule already!) for displaying color?
Markzware interviewed one of it’s valued customers, Mr. Valentin Ocheda and during taping, he deeply explained his usage of a neat Macintosh tool called, Default Folder X. Check out here how he uses this to semi-automate his preflight and graphic design workflow:
“Quality Control [via FlightCheck] on his desktop.”
Over at the Markzware’s Group on Linkedin.com, the popular professional social networking site, we posted an interesting topic and question- please join in!
How do you use preflighting in your workflow?
Here is a video interview of a graphic designer and for a large part he goes over how he preflights and the tools he uses (FlightCheck, PitStop, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcH8HXZhS4
Valentin from OCHEDA Graphic Creatives recently called in with a small support question. In assisting him, I learned of his great zeal for using FlightCheck Professional on every job that he produces in QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. SO much so that we asked if we could interview him to learn more about his graphic design workflow and how he works with preflighting, PDF and DTP layout applications. Watch the English interview here:
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Earlier today we conducted a very interesting interview with a designer, which we will post tomorrow or in any event soon. He swore by FlightCheck throughout the graphic design process and always delivers to the printers an Enfocus Certified PDF- using some of the Enfocus kit to produce standards based PDFs which his customers (record labels) require… more on that story later, but it fits in with this news below nicely… (And a few simple questions for YOU at the end!)
Adobe Creative Suite 4 or CS4 has been officially announced. It appears to be an Upgrade largely focused on web and multi-media designers, yet delves into some production stream-lining as well. In this print-production area, InDesign CS4 itself does appear to have some interesting things for layout artists and preflight operators alike. Chiefly what they are now calling ‘Live Preflighting‘:
“Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working.” SOURCE: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features/?view=topnew
Exciting news below for preflight operators whom use Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional or Designer (Or those that want to buy a copy.); see the announcement below…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Markzware Releases Free Update To Popular
Preflighting Software, FlightCheck
Markzware’s FlightCheck v6.12 provides the most up-to-date enhancements for greater productivity.
SANTA ANA, California, September 16, 2008 — Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, announced a free update for its preflighting solution, FlightCheck v6.12.
“Markzware continues to provide the level of support to our customer base to ensure efficiency, flexibility and ease of use of our popular and award-winning preflighting solution,” said Mary Gay Marchese, public relations director of Markzware.
