Comparing two documents with FlightCheck Professional

Video demonstration of how FlightCheck can effectively be used for comparing two documents. Plus, several general preflight tips. Transcript: Hello, this is Rick from Markzware. Most of you know FlightCheck as the professional tool to check more than 50 file formats, but today I would like to show you a function of FlightCheck that you might not know of which is the use of this application to compare documents. On my desktop I received a folder containing documents and illustrations. We see illustrations, but also TWO Quark documents, Rome 1 and Rome 2. Both time flags are set to 3:45 PM and the size of the files don't give me any conclusive information either, which makes it difficult for me to see which document should be used for production. Opening the files doesn't help me too much either for both documents look the same on the screen. Going through the pages there is really not a lot that would determine what document to use for output. Of course there are different ways to figure this out. Manually for instance. We go back to our document folder, select an image and open it in PhotoShop. If we go to the Image menu, we can check the color mode, which in this case is CMYK and thus correct. From the Image Size window however it is more complicated. We see the resolution of 72 dpi, but the image is pretty big; it could be scaled in Quark... Further more, if this document would contain several hundred images, this is not the way to check your document. So, what do we do? We use FlightCheck! We go back to the folder containing the documents and, instead of selecting only one document as we are used to do, we now select both Quark documents and drag them both at the same time to the FlightCheck icon. As we are used working with FlightCheck, the application starts immediately. It first checks Rome 1, directly followed by Rome 2. The result is a combined Result Page in FlightCheck. When we take a closer look at the Result Page, we for instance see that the document Rome 2 contains Non CMYK colors. We also see that RGB images are used in Rome 2, but when we look at the Hairline Warning, we see that FlightCheck reports both Rome 1 AND Rome 2. When we take a look at the individual reports of both documents, we clearly see that Rome 1 basically has no errors and only shows the warning for the use of a hairline, where the document Rome 2 contains a lot of errors. It's very clear that the document Rome 1 is the document I should use for output. Knowing this we switch back to the finder to mark both documents; Rome 1 is the right document, Rome 2 should not be used, clearly marked by the Green and Red coloring. Good to know FlightCheck can also assist you with this! This is Rick Allen, signing off. http://www.markzware-europe.com/store

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YouTube | August 19, 2008

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