FLIGHTCHECK(r) PROFESSIONAL is a powerful PDF preflight tool ideal for printers and publishers that verifies and generates a report on all document aspects, such as size, fonts, colors and images. Additionally, it gathers all the essential job elements, including required images and fonts.
FlightCheck Professional is an indispensable software tool for anyone involved in print and rich media markets, from creative designers to manufacturing professionals and organizations. It now supports Adobe CS5 and QuarkXPress 8, and includes full preflight support for QuarkXPress 8, Adobe Creative Suite 5 components, including InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, and PDF, as well as more comprehensive support for EPS files.
One of the main benefits of FlightCheck Professional is that it is a stand-alone application that quickly assesses required document corrections without the need for native applications. It guides users to the specific location of problems and provides thorough document analysis, scanning, reporting, and collecting the whole job in a few easy steps. All file elements can be collected from any available data location, and Ground Controls can be customized and shared cross-platform to keep presses running efficiently.
FlightCheck Professional also optimizes productivity and billable hours, and users can recover their purchase price in the time saved on their first job. Some of its many features include OS/X compatibility, support for a variety of Microsoft applications including MS WORD, Publisher, and PowerPoint, a special PDF object model that allows access to virtually all intricate detail within a PDF file, based on the official Adobe specification, and PDF Flightplan checks for accredited file format standards, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and others.
In addition, FlightCheck Professional supports OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts, offers three levels of reporting (errors, warnings, and informational items), and can preflight multiple documents in a single session. It also allows users to drag and drop either single or multiple files and easily customize rule sets to workflow needs. Onscreen lists of colors, images, etc. are sorted with a click of the column header. Overall, FlightCheck Professional is an incredibly useful software application that saves time, optimizes efficiency, and ensures the highest-quality output for print and rich media markets.
One of the main benefits of FlightCheck Professional is that it is a stand-alone application that quickly assesses required document corrections without the need for native applications. It guides users to the specific location of problems and provides thorough document analysis, scanning, reporting, and collecting the whole job in a few easy steps. All file elements can be collected from any available data location, and Ground Controls can be customized and shared cross-platform to keep presses running efficiently.
FlightCheck Professional also optimizes productivity and billable hours, and users can recover their purchase price in the time saved on their first job. Some of its many features include OS/X compatibility, support for a variety of Microsoft applications including MS WORD, Publisher, and PowerPoint, a special PDF object model that allows access to virtually all intricate detail within a PDF file, based on the official Adobe specification, and PDF Flightplan checks for accredited file format standards, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and others.
In addition, FlightCheck Professional supports OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts, offers three levels of reporting (errors, warnings, and informational items), and can preflight multiple documents in a single session. It also allows users to drag and drop either single or multiple files and easily customize rule sets to workflow needs. Onscreen lists of colors, images, etc. are sorted with a click of the column header. Overall, FlightCheck Professional is an incredibly useful software application that saves time, optimizes efficiency, and ensures the highest-quality output for print and rich media markets.
What's New
Version 6.75: New Quark and Adobe versions supported
Version 6.02: New Quark and Adobe versions supported
Version 6.0: New Quark and Adobe versions supported
Version 5.8: New Quark and Adobe versions supported.