XML Support

• Pure XML content creation
• HTML to XHTML conversion
• Access to document structure

• Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
• Microsoft® Word™
• HTML
• RoboHelp®
• Existing HTML Help projects

• Cross-browser, cross-platform Help (WebHelp)
• Microsoft® HTML Help (.chm)
• Help for .NET applications (DotNet Help)
• Adobe® FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
• Adobe® PDF via FrameMaker
• Adobe® PDF via Word 2007
• Microsoft® Word™
• Microsoft XPS via Word 2007
• Microsoft DOCX via Word 2007

• Fully Unicode content authoring enabled
• Double-byte support
• Extended language support (Incl. Eastern European and Asian languages)
• Localized WebHelp skins
• Fully localized interface in English, French, German, or Japanese

• Single-sourcing images
• Variables (re-usable text)
• Snippets (re-usable content)
• Conditional text
• Easily synchronize with MS Word or FrameMaker documents
• Single-source integration with MadCap Capture and MadCap Mimic

• Auto-numbering
• Visual document structure display
• View and edit multiple docs simultaneously
• Command line compiling
• Character and symbol library
• Enhanced visual editor
• Enhanced Search and Index (synonym terms in search)
• Create embedded context-sensitive Help
• Customizable style sheets for tables
• Drag and drop table columns and rows
• Single view of all content files
• Color selection tool
• View, filter and access all files from a single list

Source Control Integration

• Direct integration with Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Integration with most other industry source control systems (that use the MS SCC API interface)
• Easier Team Authoring than in previous versions
• Pending Check-Ins window to show you what files are in your control
• File List — Status and User Columns so that you can see the file activity for the rest of the team
• Request check in Via Email or Instant Message from another team member
• Right-Click Source Control Menu
• Built in Instant Messaging client for rapid communication between team members
• View history and roll back to earlier versions of files

• Web-based and desktop-based targets
• Access to External Feedback Explorer
• Built-in Feedback Explorer
• Community-wide comments
• Author-only comments
• Topics ratings
• Comment actions (accept, hide, discard)
• All search phrases used
• Search phrases with no results
• Exporting feedback data to external files

• Faster server-side search
• Searching of non-HTML content (MS Word documents, PDF files, etc.)
• Automatic runtime merging of projects without any in-project work
• Auto-merged search functionality
• Auto-merged TOC options

• Pass-through marker support (pass raw content or data from FrameMaker to Flare without any processing or modification)
• Drop-down support
• TopicAlias marker support
• Hypertext Marker / Jump to Named Destination support

• Expanded table print styles for more control when sending output to MS Word, FrameMaker, or PDF
• Optional basic Style Editor for the new user
• Import styles
• Search highlight styles (customize search highlight colors)

• Carrot tag neighborhood markers(a new method for working with inline formatting when necessary)
• New TOC grid view provides more control over TOC editing
• New customizable columns for various Flare interface screens

• New Synonym Editor (enhance end user search results)
• Snippet conditions (for times when small differences exist in large pieces of reusable content)
• Add a Web toolbar for HTML output
• Expand all/collapse all buttons (TOC Editor, Browse Sequence Editor, Content Explorer, Project Organizer)
• Can now select multiple TOC or browse sequence entries
• New "Send to Main Dock" option to easily transfer interface elements between editor positions
• File>Properties applies to all file types now
• Default align command
• New option to close all documents except the active one