| True XML-Based Single-Source
Content Authoring for Multi-Channel Publishing MadCap Flare is packed with features and has
been designed to give technical writers, content
authors and documentation specialists a
versatile XML-based authoring and publishing
solution. Flare’s intuitive user interface
allows users to easily create and manage
content, import legacy authoring projects, and
publish to a wide variety of sources, all from a
single source document. MadCap Software is
passionate about its users, and strives to
provide all of the features you have come to
expect in a high-end, authoring and publishing
system, including:
Topic-based Content Development
Author in structured topic-based content
development for powerful, sophisticated
information delivery
Maximum Content Reuse
Easily create, manage and reuse content
with conditional text, variables, snippets,
outlines, and more
XML Flexibility And CSS Design
Enjoy flexibility with XML (extensible
markup language) and control the look and
style of your content with CSS (cascading style sheets)
Global Project Linking
Share and update common elements across
multiple projects
Product Integration
- MadCap Flare allows for seamless
integration across MadCap Software’s entire
line of software applications.
- MadCap Feedback Server provides user
feedback and reporting
- MadCap Analyzer scans and analyzes your
project for suggestions to improve your
project efficiency and consistency
- MadCap Mimic, Capture, and Echo provide
powerful multimedia publishing integration
for your projects
- MadCap Lingo enables translation and
localization
- Contribute content using MadCap X-Edit
Contribute and/or insert comments using
MadCap X-Edit Review
Import Existing Content
- Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
- Microsoft Word
- HTML/XHTML
- RoboHelp projects
- HTML Help projects
- DITA
Generate Multiple Outputs
- Cross-browser, cross-platform
Help (WebHelp or WebHelp Plus)
- Microsoft HTML Help (.chm)
- Help for .NET applications or
Windows Vista/Windows7 (DotNet Help)
- Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
- Direct PDF (no need for Adobe
Distiller or Word 2007)
- Microsoft Word (.xml, .doc)
- Direct XPS and DOCX
- WebHelp AIR (Direct Adobe AIR
integration)
- Pure XHTML
- DITA
- Mobile (iPhone, Microsoft
Mobile, Palm Web OS, BlackBerry and
Android)
Print-Based Output Features
- Choose between Print and Web
layout views
- Page layouts
- Context-sensitive
cross-references
- Footnotes
- Topic preview for print-based
output types
- Generate headings in output
based on TOC structure
- Heading variables (easily insert
heading variables, glossary terms,
and index terms)
- Hyphenation control
- Mini-TOC for a single chapter or
section
- Short line elimination
- Widow and orphan control
- Zoom/scale pages
- Page breaks on table rows
- Image resizing with aspect ratio
maintained
Power and Flexibility
- Advanced reporting with Analyzer
(over 20 projectspecific reports)
- ASPX, HTML, and other custom
file extensions for WebHelp output
- Enhanced Indexing (including
index links and auto-indexes, which
let you automatically add words and
phrases in your project to a
generated index)
- Image file format support
including .xps, .xaml, .wmf, and .emf
- Context-sensitive Help testing (now
available for DotNet Help)
- Wildcard search support for
DotNet Help
Team Collaboration
- Incorporate document
contributions from others
- Send topics out for review and
accept or reject changes
- Incorporate/transfer review
comments (annotations) into topics
- Contribution templates (contributors
use elements and formatting you
want)
- Locks (choose areas of content
that reviewers can and cannot edit)
Multi-Language Support
- Fully Unicode enabled
- Double-byte and Asian language
support
- Language support for Eastern
European languages
- Seamless integration with MadCap
Lingo for easy localization
Single-Sourcing Features
- Generate multiple targets from
one project
- Variables and Snippets (re-usable
text and content)
- Single-sourcing of images
- Conditional text (at all levels)
- Style sheets for topics and
tables
- Easily synchronize with Word™ or
FrameMaker® documents
- Global Project Linking — share
and update common elements across
multiple projects
- Master style sheets
- Master TOC at project level
Ease of Use
- Auto-numbering
- Visual document structure
display
- View and edit multiple docs
simultaneously
- Command line compiling
- Drag-and-drop table columns and
rows
- View, filter, and access all
files from a single list
- Disable styles that you do not
use
- IntelliSense for matching text,
frequent phrases, and variables
- Zip and email projects
- Project toolbar for easy access
to common tasks
- Style pick window (quick way to
apply styles)
- Open files by dragging from
Windows to Flare
- Insert snippets by dragging from
Content Explorer
Server
- Integration with industry source
control systems that use the MS SCC
API interface
- Faster server-side search
- Searching of non-XHTML content
(Word documents, PDF files, etc.)
- Automatic runtime merging of
projects without any in-project work
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