Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:15 am
New Preflight Software Released as Freeware for Prepress
There is a new preflight software just released in beta to the graphic arts. It's called FreeFlight, that's because it is a free tool for graphic designers, printers and prepress operators to download and check graphic files with. It's very fast, it's very easy to use and is free of charge. Have a look, their site is
http://FREE-PREFLIGHT.com
Most graphic designers and desktop publishers can't afford the expensive tools like Markzware FlightCheck™, a great application, costing as much as $400 ea. This leaves them processing files to PDF with no way to verify color space, font usage and file formats.
Yesterday I ran it on a job. I took my images folder full of placed Tiffs, Jpegs, EPS etc. It took about a second per file and found 4 RGB files for me to convert. Worked great. It doesn't do everything, but is a very valuable tool. Check it out.
There is a new preflight software just released in beta to the graphic arts. It's called FreeFlight, that's because it is a free tool for graphic designers, printers and prepress operators to download and check graphic files with. It's very fast, it's very easy to use and is free of charge. Have a look, their site is
http://FREE-PREFLIGHT.com
Most graphic designers and desktop publishers can't afford the expensive tools like Markzware FlightCheck™, a great application, costing as much as $400 ea. This leaves them processing files to PDF with no way to verify color space, font usage and file formats.
Yesterday I ran it on a job. I took my images folder full of placed Tiffs, Jpegs, EPS etc. It took about a second per file and found 4 RGB files for me to convert. Worked great. It doesn't do everything, but is a very valuable tool. Check it out.