FlightCheck Professional 6.12

FlightCheck Professional warns the operator about any potential problems that may reside in a digital file, including font and graphic incompatibilities. This application verifies critical file elements, such as resolution and color space, assuring validi After verification, FlightCheck Professional generates a detailed report, indicating whether the file has passed or failed the preflight tests and spells out specific problems that must be addressed to ensure that the file will travel onto the next stage of production without error or delay.

FlightCheck helps you create excellent PDF files for brochures, advertisements, manuals, and virtually any printed document. It provides complete quality control saving printers and publishers time and money by avoiding re-printing jobs.

FlightCheck preflights digital files thoroughly and warns you about potential printing problems while guiding you directly to them for repair. It issues a complete analysis of the print job highlighting potential errors, item by item, including wrong document size, missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparency of spot colors, incorrect image resolution and much more. FlightCheck then collects all required elements of the print job, such as images and fonts, to insure that jobs print as expected.

One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck Professional is its power to preflight a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat PDF, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe FreeHand, Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more.

The FlightCheck Ground Control tool gives you full control to create and manage hundreds of preflight checklists. Simply by turning on warnings or errors, you can customize inspection to focus on certain aspects of the document. Print production managers can save these profiles, or rule sets for specific print or publishing workflows. The Ground Controls Sets can then be shared by importing them into other user FlightCheck applications.

Major Features:

1. Preflights both PDF and non-PDF files
2. Preflights multiple print jobs in one session
3. Preflights wide range of file types for print
4. Maximizes printing operations capacity
5. Save money by eliminating job re-prints
6. Native applications are not required
7. Categories of potential problems
8. Customizable rule sets to check files
9. Preflights wide range of file types for print
10. Scans, reports and collects the entire job
11. Support for third-party font applications
12. QuarkXPress 7 and InDesign CS3 support

Enhancements:

• Added detection of Opacity in Quark 7 documents
• Improved reporting of Hexachrome inks used in Quark 7 documents.
• Improved detection and reporting of Default Trap settings in Quark 7 documents
• Flatness values can now be entered in .1 increments
• Updated clipping path icons
• Updated flatness value icons
• Improved handling of crashes (Nil Object Exceptions) when preflighting certain Illustrator files.
• Modified Transfer function reporting to not report Mono,Duo, Tri and Quad tones as having Transfer functions
• Added Global Preference to allow users to disable the Red X folder icon for collected jobs. By default this is enabled.
• Improved detection of active fonts through 3rd party software.
• Improved handling of non-english characters used in Ground Control Set names, and Collect Reports.
• Fixed issue where black was not being detected properly in InDesign documents when used in a drop shadow.
• Improved detection of Quark 7 documents, this handles reported Quark 7 files showing as Locked or File Not Recognized.
• Fixed bug with OK and Cancel buttons not being clickable in the Ground Controls area under New, Rename and Password windows.
• Added new Ground Controls for Drop Shadow detection. Under Images GCs->Image Box ->Box Shadow and Fonts->Usage->Text Shadow
• Updated how File Modification and Creation dates are being detected. This should address issues with images reported as modified when they are not.
• Improved PDF reading
• Improved InDesign Reader functionality that should address issues where InDesign files were not recognized or not all pieces within an InDesign file would be properly detected.
• Added support for Open Directory Users where their Home folder is on a server and FlightCheck is run from a local computer.
• Added ability under the PDF/Trapping Ground Controls (FlightCheck Pro Only) for users to be able to enter a list of color names separated by commas under the "Not Set to Overprint" and "Not Set to Knockout" areas,
• Updated Help FIle

Requirements:

• G5 or Intel based Mac
• 2 GB RAM
• 1280 x 800 screen resolution
• Mac OS v10.4 to v10.5x