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Hi, everybody! Markzware's FlightCheck version 7 for the Macintosh has just
been released with
InDesign CC, Illustrator, Photoshop CC support
and much more. You can check it out here on the Products page,
or click on the fancy banner we have there. So, let's go over
FlightCheck version 7.
What's new, what can it do, and how to install
and activate this multi award-winning,
stand-alone application from Markzware to pre-flight and package
your desktop publishing files. What's new in FlightCheck 7
is, the main thing is, the added support for
the new subscription model from Adobe, which is also a new feature with
FlightCheck,
a subscription model, is the new
InDesign CC files, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Acrobat PDF CC,
etc. So, and you can download the full version support list here. So, there's a
lot of new support for
Creative Cloud products from Adobe. So, this is very important, to have the latest,
greatest in FlightCheck. The subscription model allows you to
always get the latest version, you know, it matters if you have,
for instance, Quark 10 support will come out
sometime soon, exactly when, it's hard to say. When that comes out, you'll automatically
get that support in your FlightCheck. You don't have to go and re-purchase
and re-do the whole thing with your Purchasing Department.
With the new subscription model from Markzware,
you just always have the latest updates, new features and functions,
etc., better handling of Illustrator files and Photoshop files. You can
see in a moment how we can handle those file types with extreme precision.
We'll take this Photoshop document here. It could be QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign.
It could be Illustrator, multiple file types, even PDFs.
We'll check pretty much anything in the graphic arts industry,
on the print side and even on the online side. We can just drop a file onto the
FlightCheck icon, or onto the Flight Strip as it's called,
and FlightCheck will do its work. It'll pre-flight and ascertain
everything that's used (FlightCheck eagle screeches) in the file.
And very quickly, we get back a report,
the Results screen here. The FlightCheck
Results screen will, in relatively plain English, tell you what
the problems are. So, you can very quickly see, ah, I have an RGB image used within
this Photoshop document and I have an ICC profile
that's been applied. Oh, and look at that! Most importantly,
I have some missing printer fonts. When you go into the main screen, you'll get
all details on your file. I have one image used, but you can see very quickly that
the mode
is RGB and that
could be a problem. We get a preview of
the image. After that, you can then collect the job.
Up here, just hit Collect.
This, commonly termed "package" in Adobe language,
where it will allow you to package the job,
will allow you to collect everything used in the file,
all fonts, images, elements,
even allow you to compress
the file. Now, this is very handy, because you cannot,
for instance, collect Photoshop files in Adobe Photoshop CC,
or CS6, or CS5, doesn't matter. Illustrator, same thing.
For an older version of Illustrator, in any event, you can't package them,
but with FlightCheck, you can. And you can package InDesign, Quark, etc.
And you just hit Collect, and it's that easy!
FlightCheck (computer chimes), in this case, says, "Watch out. There are problems."
And, once again, we even could compress this,
making it very quick and easy for you to send to the
next party in the workflow.
And when we go in there, we'll see we get the file itself.
If there were associated images, they'd be in the Images folder. And we get the
fonts used.
There's only one available. Two are missing. So, very handy, to not only
pre-flight,
but package, your files. And on that note, let me show you something else.
Here, I have multiple InDesign files. I can take multiple files
and I can drop them onto FlightCheck, down here on the
Dock. It'll now check
each file, but combine results in the Results screen,
to give us a complete overview, for instance,
great for book publishing. (FlightCheck eagle screeches)
Now, deeper than that,
apart from seeing all the problems, and then I can go into each file, individually,
and see what's going on in these,
in these files. I can then collect,
which I just showed you a moment ago, but now it'll collect everything, and I'll even
compress the job this time, just to show you. It'll show you how much space it's going to
take up.
All elements will be collected, and we hit Collect. (computer chimes)
Look at that! In mere seconds,
we get the archive zip file, which is now multiple InDesign files,
collected into one archive.
And there, you see we get everything, all the files we pre-flighted
and all used and available fonts, and all used and available images.
Really amazing and powerful!
Alright, staying with this theme, let's now take
a native Photoshop file,
an InDesign CS6 file,
actually this is a CC file, (It doesn't matter. It'll check it all.)
a native Illustrator file, and a QuarkXPress layout.
Let's take all of those and drop 'em on FlightCheck.
What do you think is going to happen? Well, here. Let's do it this way.
Drop 'em on the Flight Strip, drop 'em up there. You see we get the number four.
Four files, let's do it.
FlightCheck will pre-flight each and every file, independently.
It'll even switch to pre-flight preferences, which we're going to go over
in a second,
to be specific for those file types. Real power for your prepress department.
(FlightCheck eagle screeches) There we go.
A complete overview of everything seen in the file.
Some scaled images in there. We have some GIF images used.
It may be okay for online, but if we're going to print, we might want to watch out for this.
Look at that! CMYK values are too high,
and it tells us which document those problems can be found in.
That Illustrator file, look at that.
And, once again, we can dive in and see specifics on any given,
any given file. For instance, we see here the EPS used in that
QuarkXPress file. If we hit Collect,
the same thing. It'll collect
everything used in this batch of files we just pre-flight checked.
It'll package them all up and, once again,
extremely powerful for environments where you're working with mixed desktop publishing
document formats, book publishing,
but could be corporate environments, printers,
(computer chimes) There you go. Anyone getting in multiple file types.
And we'll close off these individual pre-flights,
and we'll go into the job's problems with this job,
but there you go. Everything copied over,
collected, with a pre-flight report, all fonts used,
all images used, in one
folder. Extremely powerful,
in FlightCheck 7 from Markzware.
Now, we're going to go over some more advanced stuff on FlightCheck.
For instance, the
pre-flight profiles, as we call them, the Ground Controls,
the advanced preferences in FlightCheck, to pinpoint your checking to
an even higher degree, and how you can actually find and fix the problems
with FlightCheck. Folks, that's been
Markzware's FlightCheck, and this is a great quote here
from Will Foster, "Quality is never an accident... it is always the result of
high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."
You, today, can make the wise choice and try out FlightCheck, or simply purchase
today, FlightCheck 7 for the Macintosh. Just click here, Buy Now.
This has been David Dilling for Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!
And we look forward to your customer testimonials and feedback
on FlightCheck version 7 for the Macintosh.