FEATURES OVERVIEW

Package multiple jobs (InPreflight Pro only)

• Automate packaging of multiple documents with the option to collect them all in one folder or separately.
• Collect all mutual files into one folder, so you don't need to collect the same links multiple times for each design, which can save gigabytes of disk space and hours of production time .
• ...or collect each job into separate folder automatically..
• Add external files and folders to packages.

Preflight

• Quickly check document's fonts, colors and links. InPreflight is on average 2 - 10 times faster than FlightCheck.
• Sort preflight results by any attribute.
  
  Links
• Get extensive info on links attributes.
• Reveal potential problems not reported by InDesign, such as TIFF compression and embedded fonts (view detailed list ).
• Warn about "forbidden" names and locations. For example, warn about links which are not located in the folder "Hi-Res", or whose name contains "_random".
  
  Colors
• Check color space, model, value and used status.
• List unnamed colors.
• Check documents for Registration color used in text.
  
  Fonts
• Check font type, status and PDF embedding permissions.

Preflight Presets

• Create preflight presets for various job types, such as newspapers, magazines and spot color brochures.
• Reassess preflight results with different presets.
  

Reports

• Print and save reports as interactive PDF.
• PDF report is like a copy of InPreflight with detailed link info saved in PDF comments.
• Interactive report setup.
• Include complete Paragraph Styles report.
• Save text-only reports.

 

Extended link attributes reported by InPreflight
(red type = info not available in InDesign)
Attribute	Notes
Kind	including: TIFF compression (LZW / JPEG / ZIP), EPS JPEG compression
Color Mode	CMYK, RGB, CMYK+Spot etc. including: Multichannel, Duotone mode in Photoshop files; color mode of Illustrator (native and EPS) files
Actual Resolution	including Photoshop EPS resolution
Effective Resolution
Fonts in Illustrator (.ai) files	including Embedded fonts
Fonts in vector EPS files
Spot colors in Illustrator (.ai) files
Spot colors in vector EPS files
Spot colors in Duotone and DCS files
"Forbidden" locations and names

 

InPreflight Pro vs. InPreflight Studio
Advanced Packaging is not available in InPreflight Studio. All other functionality is identical.

 

System Requirements

• Adobe InDesign CS-CS5
• Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.6

In the Media...
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InPreflight is delightfully simple to use and does its job well.

James Dempsey

 

InPreflight is what InDesign's [CS3] preflight should have been.

David Creamer

 

InPreflight offers healthy competition for some of the larger, more mature software competitors.

Janet Frick

Users Say...
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"Where has this software been all my life? Wow!.. InPreflight just saved me about 9 hours work…"

Paul Rhetts,

LPD Press & Tradicion Revista

"Loving it…

Really loving it."

Paul Everett,

Concrete Creative Limited

 

"What a great program, what Adobe should have included from the beginning."

R.C., Impact Business Development

"I found InPreflight to be an excellent program to use. It lets me know if I have any problems with the job I'm doing before I write a pdf."

Peter McDonnell, Avondale Heights, Australia

 

"What FlightCheck should have been!
All of their versions do the same as your software at only 10 times the price and 10 times slower at least."

Darren Rath,

Melbourne, Australia

 

"Love the programme – a real time saver in prepress situations... InPreflight is great at finding problems ahead of schedule."

John Farnell,

New Zealand