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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Preflight software for Desktop Publishing}}<br />
{{Notability|Product|date=March 2021}}<br />
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{{Infobox software<br />
| name = FlightCheck<br />
| logo = <br />
| screenshot = FlightCheck 2023.png<br />
| screenshot alt = A screenshot of FlightCheck with a file preview and Inventory details<br />
| caption = FlightCheck 2023 running on [[macOS]]<br />
| developer = Markzware Inc.<br />
| released = {{Start date and age|1995}}<br />
| operating system = [[macOS 10.13]] and later<br />
| platform = [[x86-64]], [[ARM64]]<br />
| genre = Preflight for Desktop Publishing<br />
| license = [[Trialware]], [[Proprietary license]]<br />
| latest release version = 2023<br />
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2022|12}}<br />
| programming language = [[C++]], [[Swift (programming language)]]<br />
| website = {{URL|https://markzware.com/products/flightcheck/}}<br />
}}<br />
'''FlightCheck''' is a stand-alone application that performs preflight quality control inspection on many common file types such as [[Adobe InDesign]], [[Adobe Photoshop]], [[Adobe Illustrator]], [[QuarkXPress]], and [[PDF]].<ref name="PW2008">{{Cite web |url=http://www.printweek.com/ProductsAndReviews/StarProduct/news/785773/FlightCheck-Professional-v610/ |title=FlightCheck Professional v6.10 - PrintWeek 2008 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614050937/http://www.printweek.com/ProductsAndReviews/StarProduct/news/785773/FlightCheck-Professional-v610/ |archive-date=2008-06-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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[[Pre-flight (printing)|Preflight]] in the graphic arts industry is the process of checking a digital document before it goes to the plate, print, or otherwise output (exported - such as to [[PDF]]). It is a way to check the quality before printing, digitally or otherwise, but it can also be used to check any common artwork file. Preflight may be done on the source [[desktop publishing]] document, or before creating a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The term [[Pre-flight (printing)|preflight]] was first used during a presentation in 1990 by Chuck Weger, a well-known industry consultant. There were some early postscript RIPs that interpreted data and provided a preflight report of sorts.<br />
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The first commercial preflight application, called "FlightCheck,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.markzware.com/flightcheck_professional|title = Error|date = 8 April 2014}}</ref> was introduced to the public by [http://www.markzware.com Markzware] and appeared at the Seybold Seminars Conference at San Francisco in the Fall of 1995.<ref name="SSC1995">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100312020253/http://www.macworld.com/article/1451/2002/05/marchese.html Pro File: Taking Flight - Macworld 2002]</ref> '''U.S. Patent''', number 5,963,641 <ref name="patent">{{ cite patent<br />
| country = US<br />
| number = 5963641<br />
| status = Granted<br />
| title = Device, and method for examining, verifying, correcting, and approving electronic documents prior to printing, transmission, or recording<br />
| pubdate = 1999-10-05<br />
| gdate = <br />
| fdate = 1997-11-24<br />
| pridate = <br />
| invent1 = Crandall, Ronald<br />
| invent2 = Marchese, Patrick Gerald<br />
| assign1 = Markzware, Inc.<br />
| assign2 = <br />
| class = <br />
}}</ref> was subsequently granted - ‘Device and method for examining, verifying, correcting and approving [[electronic document]]s prior to printing, transmission or recording.’<br />
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Other preflighting tools have subsequently been introduced,<ref name="DTP.c">{{Cite web |url=http://www.desktoppublishing.com/preflight.html |title=PreFlight and PrePress Software - desktoppublishing.com |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509170224/http://www.desktoppublishing.com/preflight.html |archive-date=2008-05-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> mainly focusing on PDF <ref>[[PDF]]</ref> preflighting.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Desktop publishing software]]<br />
[[Category:Printing software]]<br />
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