Main Menu->Preflight Menu


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Preflight Document - This will recheck any open documents. If you have multiple documents open, they will all be rescanned if you select Preflight Document. You can also use Command -F to invoke this command. This is the same as hitting the Recheck button in the FlightStrip.


Display FlightCheck®Results - This will bring up the Results Window if you have hidden it, or it will bring the Results Window to the font if you have several windows open. You can also use Command - M to invoke this command.


Show Ground Controls - This will bring up the Ground Controls Window if you have hidden it, or it will bring the Ground Controls Window to the front if you have several windows open. You can also use Command - G to invoke this command.


Launch Document -  This will attempt to launch the native application for the current document you have open. If you have multiple documents open, FlightCheck will attempt to launch the native application for the document listed in the front most Overview Window.  **A few words of caution here - FlightCheck cannot launch applications that you do not have access to on your computer. Also, currently FlightCheck will launch the latest version of the application it finds. For example if you preflight a Quark 6 document and have both Quark 6 and 7 loaded on your computer, FlightCheck will attempt to launch the document in Quark 7.


Find Image - This menu item will be available if you have any images flagged as missing. This allows you to select a single image and then navigate to where you believe the missing image is located. When using Find Image, you can actually point FlightCheck to a different image than the one originally used in the job. Using Show Image Folder does not allow you to do this.


Show Image Folder... - This menu item will be available if you have any images flagged as missing. This allows you to select a folder where you believe the missing images reside. Once you select a folder, FlightCheck will rescan the job and look in the folder you selected for the images flagged as missing. If FlightCheck finds the images, it will report additional information about the images. If FlightCheck cannot find the images, they will still be flagged as missing. This is a great tool to see if someone has sent you all of the images required for a job. If they package the job with all of its images into a folder called MyImages, you can point FlightCheck to that folder to make sure they didn't forget any images.


**Note about Show Image  and Show Image Folder - neither one of these functions actually links or re-links images to your job. They are used to allow FlightCheck to find images so that image attributes such as RGB or CMYK color space or resolution can be reported.