Preflight Printing & Publishing Files

You can catch document problems as soon as possible, so corrections can be made in prepress, before the final production stage of your workflow. By selecting Ground Controls in FlightCheck, and letting it check your document, you can see whether your document is output ready.

Markzware’s FlightCheck has Default Ground Control Sets (preflight profiles), so you can quickly start preflighting your document. FlightCheck checks all common file types, including PDF and files created in layout applications.

FlightCheck does not require the native Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Affinity Publisher, or other DTP applications to be loaded on your computer, in order to process these file types.

Preflight Application For Print & Online Publishing

FlightCheck is a stand-alone application to preview, analyze, report on, and package jobs for output in print, publishing, and graphic arts workflows. The built-in checklist include new Ground Control Settings from which you can select important items for the software to check.

Ground Controls are pre-defined rules that can be set to Ignore, Warn, or flag an Error). You can control the settings that direct FlightCheck to check specific document items that are critical in your workflow. When a document item does not match your workflow’s production specs, as reflected in the chosen Ground Controls, FlightCheck will let you know.

The five pre-set Ground Control sets in FlightCheck help you to begin preflighting as soon as possible. You can select a default set of preflight profiles, from these options:
• PDF Default
• Page Layout Default
• Vector Default
• Graphics Default
• Image Default

If you enable all of the Ground Controls and set each one to the “Error” state, FlightCheck will check your document for potential problems with every item listed and provide information about those problems. By enabling all checks, you are directing FlightCheck to find any output issues and other document problems.

For example, if your workflow plans to post PDF documents on the internet, FlightCheck can check them for you, to make sure that the documents are not too large. It will even locate missing images (including WebP and HEIC photo formats for iPhone) and fonts (including Adobe Type 1 fonts), as well as check for Unsupported PANTONE colors and ICC Profiles overrides.

Ground Controls To Direct A Preflight Session

You can toggle on or off switches for FlightCheck Ground Controls, to have FlightCheck “Ignore” the item, give you a “Warning” about it, or alert you to an “Error” for an item involving:

• Colors
• File information
• Fonts
• Images
• Lines
• Page Setup
• PDF
• Print