Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac
Fonts Preferences Setup

You can setup Fonts Preferences in Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac. This preflight solution can check prepress files for print quality control:

FlightCheck Fonts Preferences

Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac Fonts Preferences Setup

You can manage font paths in Markzware‘s FlightCheck via Preferences > Fonts > Setup. By default, when FlightCheck builds its Font Database, it looks into the following folders:

• Your HardDrive:System:Library:Fonts
• Your HardDrive:Library:Fonts
• Your HardDrive:Users:your home folder:Library:Fonts

You will also see two more paths that are virtual paths:

• This represents any folder at the same level as the document you preflight.
• Since active fonts can reside in many different places, this is considered a virtual path.

You can also prioritize font paths by using one of the following methods:

• Highlight a font path and clicking on the up or down arrowheads on the right of the Font Paths window.
  
• Highlight a font path and clicking and dragging the name up or down in the list. In combination with the above you can also uncheck a font path so that FlightCheck will not search in that path. If you uncheck a Font Path, FlightCheck will not report on fonts in those paths, but will still scan those paths. Font paths at the top of the list have the highest priority and will be searched first.

There are three buttons that help you manage custom font paths that you enter:

• New Absolute Path – This will allow you to navigate to a folder where you store fonts and select the folder, this is a hard-wired path.

Relative Path feature in
FlightCheck

• New Relative Path – This allows you to setup a flexible path that is relative to the document being preflighted. If you have a workflow setup where you ask your customers, clients or Designers to always package a job in a certain folder structure, then relative font paths can save you a lot of guesswork, headaches and time, because you just need to setup FlightCheck once for your particular folder structure.

You can delete custom paths that you add into the list.

• Remove Path – This removes a pathname from the Path window and from FlightCheck’s search path for Fonts. If you try to remove one of the initial paths that FlightCheck sets up, you will receive an error message.

There are two more Prefs on the Fonts Preferences Page:

• Allow Cross Platform Fonts – Enable this to allow FlightCheck to try to handle fonts from another platform. For example, you may have fonts from a Windows machine, while you are preflighting on a Macintosh. This does not guarantee that FlightCheck will handle the cross-platform fonts. It merely enables some checking that allows FlightCheck to attempt to handle these fonts.
  
• Fonts Restricted to Mac OS Classic – This is if you are still running applications under Classic mode for OS9 and have fonts loaded for Classic. Activating this preference will restrict where FlightCheck looks for fonts to the official fonts area for the Mac Classic environment.

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

Markzware FlightCheck 7.5 Mac Fonts Preferences Setup