Preflight with FlightCheck and Acrobat PDF in the Graphics Workflow
Jon Warner from Trade Press Media Group talks to us at PRINT 09 in this video on how he uses FlightCheck Professional AND Adobe Acrobat PDF to preflight file formats and preflight fonts in his incoming files during the graphics workflow. He uses both; but prefers FlightCheck (for everything first) due to its ease-of-use and ability to preflight file formats of more than 50 file types, such as InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Acrobat PDF and others. It is much more effective to preflight fonts before outputting to Acrobat PDF:
In the last segment, you see Doug Rosen, Markzware project manager, going into some advanced details with Jon on font search paths to optimize the process to preflight fonts during the graphics workflow with Markzware FlightCheck. FlightCheck can preflight file formats of several types, including Acrobat PDF, and is now shipping with CS4 and Quark8 support.
The reason it was so great to hear Jon’s comments, is that some out there in the graphic arts industry, or what is it called “print media“, like to think that it is best to funnel this multi-step process called preflight to the very end of the workflow and some are even trying to automate preflight checking. It is however, largely a human process which requires a simple preflight checklist to work best and should be done at every step in the graphics workflow where the layout file switches hands or is due to be output (see what is preflight). As Dr. Deming said on quality assurance,
“Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”
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