FlightCheck Professional 6.11 Improves Support for QuarkXPress 7
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
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 QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
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 :(
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. ;-)