Preferences->Images
Calculate Image Previews - This is enabled by default and in FlightCheck Professional allows you to see a small thumbnail preview of an image in the Sub-Overview window, if an image has an available preview. Not all images have previews available.
Calculate Image Densities - By default this is disabled as it tends to slow FlightCheck down. Enable this if you want to use the Ink Density Ground Control located under the Images Ground Control section. Ink Density currently only works on TIFF and JPEG file formats, it does not calculate ink densities for EPS files.
Image Paths
By default FlightCheck sets up four paths it will look in for images. Just like fonts, this is a prioritized list with the highest priority path at the top of the list and the lowest priority at the bottom of the list. The four default paths are Relative paths, which means they are relative to the document being preflighted. The paths are:
./ - This represents images found at the same level as the document that has been preflighted. This is useful if someone packages or collects a job and throws all of the images loose in a folder along with the layout application document.
Images - This is the default name of the folder that FlightCheck collects images into. This is useful if someone has collected a job using FlightCheck Pro or FlightCheck Designer.
Links - This is the default name of the folder that InDesign collects images into. This is useful if someone has collected a job using InDesign and you want to make sure that all images are present.
Pictures - This is the default name of the folder that Quark collects images into. This is useful if someone has collected a job using Quark and you want to make sure that all images are present.
There are three buttons to help you set up and manage image paths in FlightCheck.
New Absolute Path - This will allow you to navigate to a folder where you store images and select the folder, this is a hard-wired path.
New Relative Path - This allows you to setup a flexible path that is relative to the document being preflighted. This is handy if you want to know if someone who sent you a job included all of the images. You could for example add a new Relative Path called “:MyPictures” and FlightCheck would check this folder at the same folder level as the document you are preflighting. If any images are found in this folder, FlightCheck will report on these images.
If you have a workflow setup where you ask your customers, clients or Designers to always package a job in a certain folder structure, then relative image paths can save you a lot of guesswork, headaches and time.
Delete Path - This removes a pathname from the Path window and from FlightCheck's search path for images.