Flare™ — The New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source Publishing

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 (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

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

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 (re-usable text and content)
• 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

Power and Flexibility

• Advanced reporting with Analyzer (over 20 project-specific 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 (ToDo: List All Formats)
• Context-sensitive Help testing (now available for DotNet Help)
• Wildcard search support for DotNet Help

Source Control Integration

• Direct integration with Microsoft® Visual Source Safe and Microsoft® Team Foundation 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