This configurator drives Markzware FlightCheck Professional. It is a processor that preflights a job (single file or job folder) in various application formats (including PDF). The job file itself flows along the “data” output connections, the preflight results flow along the “log” output connections.
Refer to Version requirements for third-party applications for more information on the third-party application required by this configurator.
Keywords
Keywords can be used with the search function above the elements pane.
The keywords for the Markzware Flightcheck Professional configurator are:
- QuarkXPress
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- preflight
- native
- creative
Detecting the application
This configurator implements the following mechanisms to detect the presence of the corresponding third-party application. See Detecting third-party applications for more information.
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Detection mechanism |
Comments |
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Automatic detection at startup |
Uses information registered with the operating system when the application is installed |
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Searching from the elements pane |
Not provided |
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Manually locating the executable |
Not provided |
If you are using Markzware FlightCheck Professional in demo or trial mode, the application displays a dialog upon startup, requiring a user to click the OK button. This prevents Switch from automatically launching the application. As a workaround, launch FlightCheck manually so that it is already running before you use it from within Switch.
Connections
This configurator supports any number of outgoing traffic-light connections.
Locating the main file
Markzware FlightCheck Professional is designed to handle jobs that consist of multiple files linked from a single main file. In Switch all of these files are presented to the configurator in a job folder. Since Switch doesn’t know the job folder’s structure, and since FlightCheck supports many file types, locating the main file may be complicated.
This configurator offers various ways to locate the main file. In all cases, the user can limit the nesting level on which the main file may occur. The default is 1, which means that the main file is placed directly inside the job folder.
The default mechanism to locate the main file is called “Automatic”. It searches the main file levels (indicated by the previous property) and selects the first encountered file that has one of the types supported by FlightCheck (see the list below). So in effect it assumes that the main file levels contain only one file of these types.
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File types recognized by "Automatic" |
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QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft PowerPoint, Macromedia Freehand, Multi-Ad Creator, Corel Draw, PostScript, Encapsulated Postscript, Printer Postscript. |
Alternatively you can explicitly specify a file filter for locating the main file. In that case, the filter is matched against all files in the job folder up to the specified maximum nesting level, and the first file that matches is selected as the main file.
Properties
It is not possible to change FlightCheck’s FlightPlan “from the outside”. Therefore, when using this configurator, FlightCheck always uses the FlightPlan that is currently configured from the regular FlightCheck user interface.
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Property |
Description |
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Name |
The name of the flow element displayed in the canvas |
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Main file levels |
The number of subfolder nesting levels in which to look for the main file inside a job folder; see the discussion on locating the main file above (Used only in case of an incoming job folder) |
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Main file filter |
Determines which of the files in a job folder is the main file; choices include "Automatic" and various file filter types; see the discussion on locating the main file above (Used only In case of an incoming job folder) |
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Ground controls file |
A collection of ground controls sets that control the preflight operation; choices are:
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Ground controls set |
The name of the ground controls set to be used for preflighting, contained in the collection indicated by the previous property (select from the list offered in the dialog) |
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Report type |
The type of preflight report; choices are:
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