Preflight: Will Your File Fly

However, while there are many applications that can determine what does and does not conform, automatic file repair is much more difficult in the packaging world because so much of packaging is comprised of graphic elements rather than text. According to Markzware’s Rosen, font sizes are a particular concern. In flexographic packaging, for example, “you often do not want reverse type smaller than six points. It would be dangerous to have a program that automatically increased text from three to six points because it might run over another graphic element or worse, legal copy.”