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FlightCheck is our next-generation, stand-alone preflight application. This quality control tool will inspect and analyze all colors, fonts, images, and more, within both native and PDF documents.
It is complete with Inventory and Packaging functionality to ensure documents are print-ready. FlightCheck offers deep insight into your desktop publishing (DTP) file content and creates a package for sharing, printing, or archiving. Preflight Reports can even be integrated as JSON or XML, directly into most automated workflows.
FlightCheck can lend a hand to graphic designers seeking a preflighting tool. This prepress solution provides all required document elements to your printer, a customer service representative (CSR) tasked with preparing job quotes, or a graphic design department looking to archive years of work.
One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck is its power to preflight file formats and image types of a wide variety. A partial list includes:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
PDF (Portable
Document Format)
QuarkXPress
The Inspector Widgets provides a high-level overview of the document. At a glance, you can see which file type, which version, and when the document was last modified. Is it intended for print, mobile, or web? How many pages and spreads are included? Are there any missing or inactive used fonts? Are there missing or embedded images
Continue with the Inventory View, for a thorough analysis of the document contents. Detailed file, page, and print information is displayed. View all of the job images, both linked and embedded, alongside all of their important details (e.g., type, color mode, resolution, …). You can also see detailed color, page, and font information.
FlightCheck will highlight errors, during preflight, such as missing fonts and images. The application will also warn about potential issues, such as embedded images or inactive fonts. Prepress specialists can use FlightCheck to help avoid any of these errors, which could cause common printing problems, or worse, re-printing the entire job.
This graphic illustrates FlightCheck’s extensive list of modifiable Ground Controls used to check for potential production errors.
FlightCheck excels at collecting and packaging required job elements, ensuring you have everything needed for the next step in your workflow. Packaged items include:
• Original DTP file (INDD, QXP, PDF, AI, …)
• Exported PDF file
• Converted IDML file* [watch the video]
• Linked Images
• Extracted Embedded Images
• Used Fonts
• Inventory Report
(as HTML, TXT, RTF, JSON, or XML)
• Package Report
(as HTML, TXT, RTF, JSON, or XML)
Preview INDD, QXP, and PDF files In-depth Inventory Package 12 months of updates included Preview INDD, AI, PS, PDF, and QXP files In-depth Inventory Package
Limited to 30 days
The Inventory View and Inventory Report
(available as HTML, TXT, RTF, JSON, and XML)
contain the following sections and data:
File Info Widget
Page Info Widget
Font Info Widget
Color Info Widget
Image Info Widget
Version
File Size
Creation Date
Modification Date
Page Count
Spread Count
Master Page Count
Facing/
Non-Facing
Intent
(Print, Mobile, Web)
Resolution
Separation
Spreads
Scale
Paper Size
Registration Marks
Orientation
Bleed
Page #
Printed #
Width
Height
Section
Image Count
Missing Image Count
Page Size Name
Color Swatch
Name
Model
CMYK Values
Used By
(Document, Image, Text)
Name
Manufacturer
Found/Missing
Enabled/Disabled
File Path
Version
File Size
Name
File Path
Page
Status
Size
Type
Mode
PPI
Scaling
Resolution
Effective PPI
Rearrange
Sections
Move the sections that are most important to you to the top of the view.
Collapse/Expand
Sections
Collapse sections that you might not need to see often. Quickly and easily expand any section at any time.
Filter Section
Table Views
Filter each Table by values such as “All,” “Used,” “Used Missing,” “CMYK,” “RGB,” and much more.
Resize Section
Table Views
View the tables as Small, Medium, Large, or Extra-Large sizes.
Hide/Show
Fields & Columns
You can hide any of the fields or columns to simplify the content down to what’s important to you.
Export Section
As CSV
You can export individual section data. Maybe you need a spreadsheet containing the image or font data. We get you the data; you take it from there.
FlightCheck is designed to make complex tasks quick and easy. Preview your document, then, with a single click, create an Inventory Report or Package.
With Automation Preferences, AppleScript support, and a Custom URL Scheme, FlightCheck will have no problem integrating into most automated workflows.
We’re in modern times. Are you still doing repetitive tasks manually? The following includes examples of how FlightCheck can help you to automate the same old, mundane tasks!
Open And Report
You can set up FlightCheck to automatically create an Inventory Report when a file is opened. Determine where the Report will be saved, how to handle duplicate file names, and whether to open the Report in a 3rd party application.
Open And Package
FlightCheck can also be configured to automatically create a Package when a file is opened. Settings allow you to choose how the Package is created.
The Sky Is The Limit
Couple these setup options with a simple Automator Folder Action, and you have the beginnings of a custom Workflow. Workflows can be configured in minutes to do things like watching a Hot Folder for new files, automatically creating an HTML Inventory Report, and emailing it to your document production department using Apple Mail.
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So glad Markzware is accommodating all the changes in computers and software -- couldn't work without FlightCheck!
I have been a fan of your company and team since forever! WOW! I don't even remember not being a fan, a patron and supporter through promotion. Your tools have helped me in some tough times. I have used different tools at every single job or client since my first encounter and opportunity to use them. Thanks for helping change and make a difference in what we do, have done, and will do. Nothing happens in this world until those of us in the Graphic Communications Industry does something with it. Thank you for all your hard work in making it 'a little bit easier'. FlightCheck has saved my life back in the day!
As a company active in Prepress, using the FlightCheck program was very valuable to us. Using this application can improve the production and lean printing process. Reza Alee, Prepress Manager
Prior to upgrading to Mac OS Catalina, I'd used your software faithfully for about 17 years. It is great to see it available again! Functionality is easy to navigate, and the new look is a great update on the original!
I have used the earlier FlightCheck Pro for almost 2 decades. It helped me prevent disasters in production and frequently improved my PDF output. For some time now, the solution was outdated. The new FlightCheck 2022 puts it back on the map. Fast, simple to use and way more intuitive as the earlier version, this excellent tool will be a constant companion to my prepress work. Good work!
Markzware has done it again! FlightCheck 2022 is a game changer! Yes, I said game changer! FlightCheck 2022 preflights PDFs, InDesign, QuarkXPress files, and opens with NOT the embedded preview, BUT THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT PREVIEW from the documents assets! And ... (drumroll please) did I add that it is not necessary to actually have the specific software? I can determine if the Quark files that a contractor has sent me are complete and print ready, without having that particular software on my computer. That also means sales, and/or production persons that have FlightCheck can determine if the contents of a package are complete and print ready, and have a preview of what the files look like before handling off those files to prepress with confidence! Huge efficiency and productivity saver! No more kicking back files and losing time. When I finish working on a job, I package files for archival with confidence, knowing all the assets have been collected. FlightCheck has the ability to automate my workflow. Win, Win! If you have used FlightCheck in the past, you really need to 'test-drive' the newly revamped 8 cylinder FlightCheck! Vroom Vroom!
I'm pleased to see that this FlightCheck release works seamlessly on newest versions of Mac OS. Nice new intuitive user interface, and FlightCheck Score is a bonus. Looking forward to continuing to use this powerful tool --for print and digital environments alike.
It has been about 11 years since I used FlightCheck. I have been building cases to get it again and buy for my team. Then I discovered that it would not follow mac as they left 32 bit. my heart sunk. I loved its ease of use and the way that it worked. I cant wait to see it come back bigger and better then before.
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