InPreflight is a comprehensive quality control solution for InDesign.
InPreflight gathers extensive information about document fonts, colors and links and lets you instantly locate potential problems according to user-defined settings.
InPreflight also serves as a powerful information tool that conveniently concentrates all necessary info in one place and reveals several link attributes otherwise unavailable in InDesign.
Installation:
Place the InPreflight application into your InDesign folder (recommended), or you can keep it anywhere you want.
Place the 'InPreflight.scpt' file into InDesign's Scripts folder (Adobe InDesign CSx/Presets/Scripts/). This script is only required to launch InPreflight from the Scripts palette.
NOTE: If InPreflight asks you to locate ipstatus.app on the first launch, open the InPreflight package and double-click the ipstatus alias.
InPreflight is a standalone application.
InPreflight offers you a tool for Adobe InDesign.
Here are some key features of "InPreflight Pro":
· Link info: Path, Kind (including TIFF LZW/JPEG/ZIP compression, EPS JPEG compression), File size, Color mode (including Multichannel, Duotone), Scale (%).
· Actual and effective resolution (including resolution of Duotone images and monochrome EPS images).
· Fonts in Illustrator files (EPS and native, including font list for each link and indication of embedded EPS fonts).
· Colors in Illustrator files (EPS and native).
· Colors in Photoshop Duotone and DCS files.
· Status (OK/Modified/Missing/Embedded).
· Non-printing status.
· Font info: Type, Status (Active/Missing), PDF embedding permission.
· Color info: Space (CMYK, RGB, Lab), Model (Process, Spot), Value, Used/unused status.
· Preflight Settings to specify font, color and link attributes to be flagged as problems.
· Show selected link in InDesign document.
· Open selected links/fonts in default application.
· Reveal selected links/fonts in Finder.
· Document summary with preflight stats.
· Save preflight report with the detailed info on document, fonts, colors, links and paragraph styles.
· Preflight and package multiple files as a single package or separate packages.
· Detailed feedback about packaging status - all copying is done by Finder.
· Include extra files/folders in package.
· Create preflight reports.
· The Legend palette with symbols description.
· Automatically relink to FullPress Hi-res OPI images before preflighting.
Requirements:
· Adobe InDesign CS/CS2/CS3
Limitations:
· 15 days trial period.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility.
· Some interface improvements.