FlightCheck Professional 6.11 Improves Support for QuarkXPress 7

Thu, Apr 24, 2008

Markzware’s FlightCheck has been a de-facto standard in the graphic arts industry for many years, checking files for potential output problems — in print and PDF. Version 6.11 makes several improvements to its existing support for QuarkXPress 7 documents:

Added detection of Opacity in QuarkXPress 7 documents
Improved reporting of Hexachrome inks used in QuarkXPress 7 documents.
Improved detection and reporting of Default Trap settings in QuarkXPress 7 documents
Improved detection of QuarkXPress 7 documents that were formerly reported as Locked or File Not Recognized.

A full list of improvements is available here.

FlightCheck can also preflight documents from QuarkXPress versions 3, 4, 5 and 6, as well as InDesign, Illustrator, PDF, and other formats. Price: US$499.

Want to learn more?

Planet Quark previously posted four 4-minute how-to videos by Markzware’s Doug Rosen. If you’re curious about FlightCheck and want to see how easy it is to use, check out these videos.

Basics of FlightCheck: Video How-Tos

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Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7, and the QuarkXPress 7 training at Lynda.com. In addition, Jay writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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2 Comments For This Post

LaurenMarie - Creative Curio Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Hi Jay! Miss me? We sure had fun figuring out those hyperlinks a few months back, huh? I’m back with more Quark questions!

We have had a problem with overset text in Quark (5,000 copies of a prominent manual were printed with overset text on one page. Operations wants to make certain that does happen again. Yipes!). InDesign has a default check for overset text when exporting to PDF. I haven’t found a similar feature in Quark (working with 7). Any solutions? I was considering this Xtention from Markzware (their Q2ID plugin is pretty impressive!) but I couldn’t find any documentation on whether it will check specifically for overset text. I know there’s a demo, but I have to go through so much hassle to get that installed on my machine (yay for in-house designers!).

P.S. There seems to be a little problem with the blog’s theme. After a few minutes, the PQ image at the top reverts to the original theme image. Maybe it’s just an IE6 bug :(

Jay Nelson Says:
October 16th, 2008 at 10:38 am

I don’t think QuarkXPress has such a feature. And I don’t know of an XTension that will do what you’re asking. FlightCheck may find these issues, but I honestly don’t know that either. Apparently, I’m no help at all this morning. ;-)

LaurenMarie - Creative Curio Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Hi Jay! Miss me? We sure had fun figuring out those hyperlinks a few months back, huh? I’m back with more Quark questions!

We have had a problem with overset text in Quark (5,000 copies of a prominent manual were printed with overset text on one page. Operations wants to make certain that does happen again. Yipes!). InDesign has a default check for overset text when exporting to PDF. I haven’t found a similar feature in Quark (working with 7). Any solutions? I was considering this Xtention from Markzware (their Q2ID plugin is pretty impressive!) but I couldn’t find any documentation on whether it will check specifically for overset text. I know there’s a demo, but I have to go through so much hassle to get that installed on my machine (yay for in-house designers!).

P.S. There seems to be a little problem with the blog’s theme. After a few minutes, the PQ image at the top reverts to the original theme image. Maybe it’s just an IE6 bug :(
Jay Nelson Says:
October 16th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I don’t think QuarkXPress has such a feature. And I don’t know of an XTension that will do what you’re asking. FlightCheck may find these issues, but I honestly don’t know that either. Apparently, I’m no help at all this morning. ;-)

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