FlightCheck Designer

FlightCheck Designer Publisher's Description:
FlightCheck Designer is a simplified version of Markzware's FlightCheck Professional , providing designers and document creators with an essential quality control tool. The simple drag-and-drop interface inspects your documents for colors, fonts and images. The application then collects the document and images as well as screen and printer fonts. It compresses the job and includes the Ground Control settings for transmission to your service bureau.

Targeted for Designers for quick checks and completed job collection.

Benefits!

* Catches the most common print related problems quickly
* Pays for itself usually in one job
* Helps Creative people build better customer relations with more...their print providers


Features
In addition to OS X compatibility, some of the many features of FlightCheck Designer include:

* Support for OpenType, TrueType and Adobe Type 1 fonts
* Expanded support for a variety of native applications, including Microsoft WORD, Publisher and PowerPoint
* The ability to open and verify multiple documents in a single session
* Sort lists of colors, fonts images, etc. with a simple click of the column header
* File support for QuarkXPress 6, Adobe CS2, and Acrobat 6, and Macromedia FreeHand MX
* Expanded PDF/X checking capabilities
* Improved Pass4Press FlightPlans
* The ability to create your own custom Ground Control sets based on existing standards
* Ability to use Ground Controls files created using FlightCheck Professional
* Can use Ground Controls files created in FlightCheck Professional or FlightCheck Designer.




WHAT'S NEW

Version 6.02:

* Modified Quark reader to handle certain files previously listed as unrecognized or locked.
* Fixed issue where if Parental Controls were set to "Some Limits" and "This user can only use these applications" is checked, and Flightcheck is selected in the list of apps, FlightCheck would not run.
* Fixed issue where fonts were not detected properly on the initial scan of a document after auto-switching between Non_PDF and PDF preflight modes.
* Improved initial scan time for certain PDF files. **Please note, the initial scan time has been reduced by splitting the preflight into two parts, a preflight portion more...and a portion to handle the Page Layout information if the user clicks on the Page Layout button (FlightCheck Pro Only). This means that if you still wish to view the PDF file in Page Layout, the overall time to scan and display the file will be roughly the same as earlier versions of FlightCheck.
* Added a progress bar to the Page Layout Window as complex jobs can take some time to be rendered on screen.
* Addressed issues with "Number of Recent Items" preference.
* Fixed issues with the Fonts Preferences incorrectly retaining or ignoring preferences set by the user.
* Fixed issues with Print Preference settings so they now hold the last settings if a Cancel operation is performed.
* In the Results Window, Option-Clicking on a disclosure triangle for a major Ground Control category such as Fonts or Colors will reveal all twist-down areas for the entire category.
* Improved reporting for Registration Mark types.
* Fonts embedded in Illustrator EPS files no longer are flagged as missing or inactive as they are contained within the Illustrator EPS file.
* Under Page Layout, if you try and view an unsupported type of file, a message will now appear "No Page Layout available for this filetype".
* Modified folder icon resources for the icon used on the Collect folders to better accommodate certain workflows.
* Fixed issue where certain PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 files would not flag as X1a or X3 compliant.
* Improved color reporting for Illustrator CS3 files and EPS files created out of Illustrator CS3.
* Improved embedded image reporting for Illustrator CS3 and EPS files created out of Illustrator CS3.
* Fixed crash caused by certain files that used complex path objects in EPS files.
* Fixed font related crash for certain InDesign files.
* Fixed issue where fonts in relative paths were not being listed in the Font Database window.
* **Important Note - Many users reported slowness when using Suitcase Fusion. This issue can be resolved by downloading and using Fusion version 12.1.3 or later. Earlier versions of Suitcase and Fusion slow down FlightCheck's startup time and scan time if font auto activation is enabled.
* Fixed issue where fonts in Absolute and Relative font paths would show as missing.
* Improved AppleScript support.
* Modified FlightCheck Designer's UI to now show only the Colors, Fonts and Images icons at the top of the Results Window. Previously FlightCheck Designer users would see the same icons as FlightCheck Pro users in the top part of the Results Window, even though they do not have access to these Ground Control areas.
* FlightCheck will now report on and collect anchored graphics used in InDesign CS2 and CS3 documents. (Some people refer to anchored graphics as, "inline graphics")
* Fixed issue where certain eps files placed in Quark documents would crash FlightCheck.
* File paths of linked images that begin with "/" are now treated as POSIX file paths. In earlier versions these paths would not be recognized by FlightCheck and certain linked images would show as missing or just be skipped completely.
* Added a third decimal place to the Hairline Ground Control. **Note - Due to FlightCheck's internal rounding, this now appears to make the Hairline Ground Control function as a "less than" check rather than the previous "less than or equal to" check.
* Fixed crash with certain InDesign files that use embedded images
* Fixed issue where certain PageMaker files would cause FlightCheck to crash or flag the files as unrecognized or locked.
* Fixed issue where template files used in InDesign CS3, from Adobe Bridge CS3 would cause FlightCheck to crash.
* Additional work has been done to try and eliminate FlightCheck asking for a password when first starting up. This appears to be partially related to permissions the user had or currently has on existing FlightCheck Preference files from older versions of FlightCheck.
* Fonts flagged as Missing Screen and/or Missing Printer fonts now show red icons in the reports printed from the Overview window.
* Colors are now reported as used in Illustrator CS3 files (.ai and .eps files). Colors are also now reported when the .ai or .eps files have been placed into an InDesign CS3 or Quark 7 page.
* Improved image reporting for Illustrator files that use the same image more than once in a file.
* Fixed issue where the color black was not shown as being used in text in Illustrator files and EPS files created from Illustrator that were created and preflighted on PowerPC Macs.
* Wording change for US PDF Preflight Mode Menu - Changed Page Geometry to Page Layout to match Non_PDF Preflight Menu
* Custom RGB spot colors used in Quark 7 documents no longer cause the document to flag as locked or unrecognized.

REQUIREMENTS
1 GHz G4 or better, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.