What's New in Flare™ Version 4.0

Single-Sourcing

• Global Project Linking — share and update common elements across multiple projects
• Master style sheets
• Master TOC at project level

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)

New Outputs

• Direct PDF (no need for Adobe® Distiller or Word™ 2007)
• Direct XPS (no need for Word™ 2007)
• Pure XHTML
• WebHelp AIR (Direct Adobe® AIR integration)

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

More Content Features

• Create lists of figures, tables, and other elements
• Drop caps effects
• Object positioning (float elements and create wrap-around text)
• Text boxes (for content outside the normal text flow)

More Power and Flexibility

• Advanced reporting with Analyzer (over 20 project-specific reports)
• ASPX, HTML, and other custom file extensions for WebHelp output
• Indexing enhancements (including index links and auto-indexes, which let you automatically add words and phrases in your project to a generated index)
• More image file formats supported (including .xps, .xaml, .wmf, and .emf)
• Select paragraph tags for table cell content
• Context-sensitive Help testing (now available for DotNet Help)
• Wildcard search support for DotNet Help

Ease of Use

• Back up files
• 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