Preflight then a quality check

Here is an interesting post about an issue with Adobe InDesign Live Preflight, which also brings up a good point about preflighting in general, regarding doing preflight then a quality check:

“Every linked file with a forward or backward slash won’t get collected and will even crash InDesign. I know… I know… you never use slashes in a file-name, right? Well, neither do I. But that actually makes it even more dangerous, because it’s not something I’m thinking about when I’m creating artwork and I always receive a lot of files from third parties.”
Source: http://www.graphicstart.com/item.php?itemid=1040443

The point is, aside from this bug, which you would surely get fixed: you can better check everything that comes in with a stand-alone tool, such as Markzware‘s FlightCheck. The advantage is that, as a stand-alone, FlightCheck can check images and native files, without the need to open InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. We even have a little movie about using FlightCheck to check images:

Preflight Checking a batch of Images with FlightCheck

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