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News Release from: Markzware Europe | Subject: FlightCheck Studio
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 August 2005
FlightCheck Studio Assists And Fixes
FlightCheck Studio from Markzware is suitable for designers and graphic artists that use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress, and can be used to locate - and fix - problems.
FlightCheck Studio from Markzware is suitable for designers and graphic artists that use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress FlightCheck Studio provides real-time monitoring of the creative process locating and fixing problems on-the-fly
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Markzware, the developer of quality control for digital files used in the global graphic arts and printing industries has launched Flightcheck Studio for Adobe Indesign CS and CS2.
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Brochures, advertisements, catalogues and other print jobs are assured to be error-free with this superior preflight plug-in for InDesign.
This upstream quality control tool facilitates accurate reproduction of PDF files for printing.
FlightCheck Studio can also 'fix' many issues, such as: changing colour spacing, from RGB to CMYK (or spot, etc) within the layout; OPI XT active and on in QuarkXPress (big issue in PDFs!); hairlines; picture rotation (un-even percentages of rotation are especially bad!); background colour; scaling (of images); fill-of-none (picture boxes); overfill settings; trapping in general (of various sorts); font size adjustments; text adjustments (indenting, formatting, styles, etc); and many more.
There are also many items that the software does not fix directly, but can assist with.
For instance, it can show that the images are using, say, the wrong colour space.
Then if you hit the fix button, it will launch that image in Adobe Photoshop to help you do changes yourself.
Or that a font is missing - we then bring you to the font usage dialogue.
These fixes are all based on the FlightCheck Studio 'Policies' or preferences and thus extremely useful.
FlightCheck Studio is extremely valuable for anyone working within InDesign or XPress, as it is a friend to not only preflight and tell you what is wrong, but also a navigator and ultimately a fixing device too.
Try the demo at the Markzware website.
FlightCheck Studio costs $149, EUR149 or £139 and is avialble in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch languages.
FlightCheck Studio can be purchased for both Adobe InDesign V3 and 4 and QuarkXPress V4, 5 or 6.x (each version for InDesign or QuarkXPress is, of course, separate).
Please specify which version you would like). Request a free brochure from Markzware Europe ...
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