MadCap Flare Feature List
XML Support
- Pure XML content creation
- HTML to XHTML conversion
- Access to document structure
Import Existing Content
- Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
- Microsoft® Word™
- HTML
- RoboHelp®
- Existing HTML Help projects
Generate Multiple Outputs
- 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
Multi-Language Support
- 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
More Single-Sourcing Features
- 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
Ease of Use
- 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
New in Flare Version 3
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
MadCap Feedback Integration
- 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
WebHelp Plus
- 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
Advanced FrameMaker Import and Support
- 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
Enhanced Style 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)
Improved User Interface
- 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
Other Enhancments
- 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
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