Preflight panel?

[VarrusKane 48]

I love how Affinity Publisher turned out.

Can we except something similar to the Preflight panel in InDesign?

Thanks for the hard work!

[rcheetah 35]

I guess Affinity in it’s awesomness would come up with something even better
In my workflow I often come to the point where I say to myself: “I must not forget to change this before exporting”. I guess I’m not the only one. How about a panel that stores automatically generated (like Preflight) and custom notes that will popup before exporting. 

For example I get a photo from my client that is blurry and not ideal for production, but it has enough DPI for the given size. A Preflight-system won’t catch this. But If I could associate a note with that element and add some text like “get better photo from client before production”, then Affinity could warn me on export. Maybe a bad example, but I come across such situations every day. 

[VarrusKane 48]

Serif is always trying to find better way to do things in their Affinity product line. I have trust in them.

I agree with you. Your idea seems interesting. the custom note warning feature could be very useful.

[Rylek 18]

preflight is must have for DTP program. missing link, missing font, wrong range of color...

[SillyWalk 47]

Yes! Strongly vote for Preflight feature.

It saved my a*s many times.

[Johannes 34]

Unlike Publisher Photo and Designer are already main tools in my daily work. I still check every pdf with Acrobat before sending it to the printing company though. (Publisher will complete the trio soon.)

[rcheetah 35]

2 hours ago, Johannes said:

Unlike Publisher Photo and Designer are already main tools in my daily work. I still check every pdf with Acrobat before sending it to the printing company though. (Publisher will complete the trio soon.)

me too

[Fixx 798]

Preflight is nice and even needed tool, but I could not consider it core functionality. It can wait version 1.x.

[Jowday 773]

1 hour ago, Fixx said:

Preflight is nice and even needed tool, but I could not consider it core functionality. It can wait version 1.x.

As you see this is not version 1.0 of Publisher. It is version 1.7 - because a vast amount of the code in Publisher is from Designer and Photo v1.0 - 1.7.

[Radediciones 7]

Preflight is a professional needed tool.Add the option, please.

[coolieranx 0]

I hugely second this. Preflight, I think, is extremely important for this program to be used by professionals (at least by me!).

[welshhokkers 1]

This is such a necessity.  Nothing worse than tweaking a font and getting to the end of a publication just to see the 'One or more text frames have overflowing text' . Which one. WHICH ONE?? Otherwise really needs obvious indicators if this is the case, same with missing image links.

[stmartin 21]

+1

[AlainP 200]

+1

 

[Altijd 1]

Yes, i'd love to see functionality like this in the form of an Export persona in Publisher and added to that in Designer as well

[bowen192 30]

I'm guessing it's already being worked on as it was a strong feature of PagePlus.

[Tom Schülke 127]

Absolutely and totaly sure...  

Imagine you just slightly change your Textstyle..   and have a document with connected textstyles..  and now somewhere thers unwanted textoverflow..     good luck with searching...  this feature is totaly needed for professional use..

[macterrier 0]

+1

[wonderings 161]

On 9/1/2018 at 4:13 PM, Fixx said:

Preflight is nice and even needed tool, but I could not consider it core functionality. It can wait version 1.x.

Strongly disagree, preflight is a MUST HAVE FEATURE. If people actually used preflight they would catch so many problems before sending their files out to a printer. Indesigns preflight is customizable, I have various preflight profiles based no the type of work I am doing. It is the easiest and fastest way to get an overview of your job and let you know any issues. Be it overset text, colour issues, whatever, it is incredibly important and a must have functional tool for any pro work. 

[iaing 103]

On 8/30/2018 at 10:32 PM, rcheetah said:

How about a panel that stores automatically generated (like Preflight) and custom notes that will popup before exporting. 

For example I get a photo from my client that is blurry and not ideal for production, but it has enough DPI for the given size. A Preflight-system won’t catch this. But If I could associate a note with that element and add some text like “get better photo from client before production”, then Affinity could warn me on export. Maybe a bad example, but I come across such situations every day. 

Great idea - some sort of preflight def needed - but I love this in addition, frequently get too lo-res images and immediately ask client to get better, but in the mean time I work on a draft with the lo-res - a note to remind me to swap it would be ace.

[Tom Blyth 0]

Another vote for Preflight, please. Serif PagePlus had a very useful Preflight checker, which I used frequently.

[Catshill 35]

+1

[alexplus_de 4]

On 9/1/2018 at 4:03 PM, Johannes said:

Unlike Publisher Photo and Designer are already main tools in my daily work. I still check every pdf with Acrobat before sending it to the printing company though. (Publisher will complete the trio soon.)

How do you check overlapping text like that?

[Johannes 34]

On 10/16/2019 at 7:25 PM, alexplus_de said:

How do you check overlapping text like that?

I have no way to do this particular task With Acrobat. I use Acrobat to check resoultions, color spaces, spot colors, fonts, pdf standards and much more. (I use Publisher for real projects since it is out of beta.)

The best way I have right now to check overlapping text is by unchecking View/Preview Mode and check View/Show Text Flow.

This seems to work pretty well (Publisher 1.7.3)

[spinko 9]

On 9/1/2018 at 8:37 AM, Rylek said:

preflight is must have for DTP program. missing link, missing font, wrong range of color...

absolutely !