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Understand practical preflight

Check geometry and source assets while naming the specialist questions a browser tool cannot assess.

Your course project

Review a fictional reduced-scale poster with a cropped raster image and an unresolved finishing requirement. Calculate final dimensions and effective resolution, describe the actual checks performed, and prepare a provider handover listing unassessed properties.

Work through the lessons

Follow the sequence, try each decision and record your own reasoning. Export the exercise notes when you finish a lesson, or deliberately save them on this device.

  1. Check dimensions

    Check finished geometry with units, orientation and scale before evaluating suitability.

  2. Inspect source assets

    Inspect source assets for usable detail, current rights and the actual placed size.

  3. Understand bleed and safe areas

    Distinguish trim, bleed and safe area and apply the actual template convention.

  4. Review detectable file issues

    Review detectable file issues while keeping the limits of the check explicit.

  5. Recognise specialist checks

    Recognise when a job needs specialist checks beyond a browser preview.

  6. Prepare a preflight handover

    Prepare a preflight handover with exact files, actual findings and unresolved questions.

Review your finished project

  • Both axes, units and scale are explicit in the dimensional record.
  • Image calculations use retained pixels at the actual placed output size.
  • The report distinguishes byte identity, limited checks and competent technical acceptance.
The project is a fictional learning exercise. Check the actual job's requirements with its responsible parties. Course completion does not issue certification, brand permission, professional approval or an external commitment.
Photography & image credits

Photographs illustrate display, production and venue contexts; pictured organisations are not endorsements or verified partners.

  1. St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Bucheinband-Schliessen-Handarbeit.jpg — Charlotte Kramer. CC BY 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; composition retained. Display may be fitted to the layout. The optimised photograph retains those reuse terms: download image.

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