Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac
Advanced Preferences

Markzware‘s preflight solution, FlightCheck, offers advanced preferences in the Preferences area, under the Advanced tab. Users can customize with prepress features for Auto Preflight Detection, Extended Features, Logging, Truncate Long Column Strings in Reports, and more.

Auto Preflight Mode Detection – When this is enabled, FlightCheck will look for entries in the File Type List to know when to switch from the Non-PDF to the PDF Preflight Modes. By default, this is already set up for you when FlightCheck is installed. When you preflight a QuarkXPress or InDesign file and then preflight a PDF file, the Ground Controls change and there is no Collect button for PDF files.

The Customize Button – Click the Customize button to see the File Type List window, where the script entries for Auto Preflight Mode Detection are stored.

Reduced Detail – Currently not active

Extended Features – Enabling this shows an extra checkbox in the Results window. This checkbox allows you to select “Show All Items” instead of viewing just the Errors and Warnings. Enabling this Preference means the list of items in the Results window will now show for almost every Ground Control available in FlightCheck. Unless you need to see all intricate details of the document in text format, leave this Preference disabled. Then, use the Overview Window to view document details.

Logging – By default, this is disabled. If enabled, FlightCheck will create a log file in the same folder as the FlightCheck application resides. This log file contains the names of files that have been preflighted, the time when they were opened, i.e., when they were preflighted, and the time when they were closed. This may be useful for tracking how long certain files took to be preflighted and possibly worked on.

Truncate Long Column Strings in Reports – This preference deals with how the report for the Overview Window looks if you perform a Save As from under the File Menu. If this Preference is enabled, long filenames will be chopped short or truncated. If this is left unchecked, then long filenames will not be truncated when present in the Overview Window Save As Report feature.
Instead, long filenames will be shown in full, this will result in a rougher report appearance. This is how a report looks with Chop Long Column Strings in Reports enabled:

This is how a report looks with Chop Long Column Strings in Reports disabled:

Here is a video that shows how FlightCheck can preflight print files:

Video: Preflight for Adobe CC 2014 with FlightCheck v7.5

For more information on Markzware‘s pre press software to check digital files for print quality control, see the FlightCheck page. For more desktop publishing (DTP) and printing solutions, see the Markzware Products page.

Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac Advanced Preferences