Can we get a Preflight Panel in Illustrator?

[SteveG_MC]

Can we get a Preflight Panel in Illustrator?

More and more designs are being output for production from Illustrator. It would be a tremendous benefit to have a preflight panel (as in InDesign) that allows for checks on various print specifications. As of now, it can be a tedious task. It would be nice to be confident I'm passing print ready files to our vendors.

Consider it!

Steve G

[Abhishek Rao · Accepted solution]

Hi @SteveG_MC,

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion. I absolutely understand how valuable a built-in Preflight panel would be in Illustrator. This is already a popular request from the community, and adding your voice can help push it forward. When you get a moment, could you upvote and comment on the existing feature request here: https://adobe.ly/48E3Kj8
That way you'll also be notified of any updates from the team.

If there's anything else you'd like to see improved in your production workflow, feel free to reach out anytime.

Happy to help however I can!

Abhishek

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Good idea. If you need a preflight ASAP, check out Markzware's FlightCheck:

https://markzware.com/products/flightcheck/

[johnson_7706]

@SteveG_MC  

I completely agree — a dedicated Preflight Panel in Illustrator would make a huge difference. With so many designers now delivering production-ready files directly from AI, having to manually check color spaces, fonts, line weights, linked assets, and bleed settings can get really time-consuming. InDesign’s preflight tools are incredibly reliable, and bringing something similar into Illustrator would help reduce errors and give a lot more confidence before sending files off to print vendors.

This seems like a natural next step for Illustrator’s workflow, especially for those of us who work in packaging, large-format, and print-heavy projects. Hope the team considers this!