FlightCheck Image Box

The Image Box area in Markzware FlightCheck gives the following options:

Suppressed – Some applications allow you to suppress image printing. The image is visible on the page when you view it on a computer, but the image will not print. This can cause layout problems like allowing images to disappear from film or plates.

Off the Page – Will trigger when an image is completely outside of the page boundaries. This means that an image will not be seen at print time, but the image is present in the job on the pasteboard.

Clipping Path – This Ground Control is useful as a general flag as to whether an image has a Clipping Path associated with it. This Ground Control works best if you are preflighting a series of EPS or TIFF image type files that have not been placed in a layout document, to see which files have Clipping Paths.

The following Clipping Path types are really geared towards detecting the type of Clipping Path that a Layout program, such as InDesign or Quark, will use when an image with a Clipping Path has been placed into a layout document.

Clipping Path Type ‘Embedded Path’ – This is the typical “Clipping Path” as assigned in Photoshop. If this Ground Control triggers, then the DTP app is using the Clipping Path created in Photoshop to mask part of the image.

Clipping Path Type ‘Non-White Area’ – Used to alert the user when an image has the Non-White Area option selected. This is referred to as “Detect Edges” in InDesign.

Clipping Path Type ‘Alpha Channel’ – Used to alert the user when an image has the Alpha Channel option selected.
See Image Contents.

Clipping Path Type ‘Picture Bounds’ – Used to alert the user when an image has the Picture Bounds option selected.

Colored Fill – Will trigger if an image container with an image placed in it has a background color of other than Black, White or None set in Quark 6.5, or Paper, Black or None in InDesign. For more information on fill, see Patterns in Image Contents.

Bitmap Frame – Will trigger if a bitmap frame has been applied to a text or image container in QuarkXPress. This does not appears to be an issue in InDesign. Bitmap frames do not scale well and may print in a jagged-looking manor. For more information on bitmaps, see Image Mode.

Box Rotation – Will trigger if the actual picture container has been rotated. In both Quark and InDesign, you can rotate the bounding box (i.e., container) separately from the contents.  This Ground Control detects that the container has been rotated. For more information on rotation, see Image Rotation in Image Contents.

Box Skew – Will trigger if an image container has had a skewing value applied to it. For more information on skew, see Image Skew in Image Contents.

Box Shadow – Will trigger if a text or image box (or container) has a Drop Shadow applied to it. **Note – For text boxes in both Quark 7 and InDesign, you can only apply drop shadows to the entire box and its contents at one time. For more information on shadow, see Text Shadow in Font Usage.