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If you are creating a project containing pictures and need to generate output for both online and printed output, chances are good that you require different image settings (e.g., file format, color depth, resolution) for those outputs. In the past, the easiest way to accomplish this task was to create one set of images for the online output and another set for the printed output. However, there is another alternative. If you have both MadCap Flare and MadCap Capture installed, you can single-source your images, producing only one set of images for all outputs. You can specify that the online images should have one group of settings, while the printed images have another group of settings.
example
Let's say you create a Flare project and you are using Capture to produce images for it. You want to generate two different outputs from that Flare project. Let's say the first output is an online Help system to be placed on a website, and the other output is a PDF document, which you will send to a printer. Right away, you have a dilemma when it comes to the DPI (dots per inch) setting for the images in your project. The typical DPI setting for images displayed in an Internet browser is usually somewhere between 72 and 96. On the other hand, the DPI setting for printed output usually needs to be much higher (say, 300 DPI). Therefore, when you edit the image in Capture, you use the Format tab in the Image Properties dialog to specify the image settings for the online output; in the DPI field, you select 72. And you use the Print Format tab to specify the image settings for the printed output; in the DPI field, you select 300. In Flare, you insert the Capture image. When you generate output for the website (e.g., WebHelp), Flare displays the image in 72 DPI. When you generate the PDF output from the project, Flare displays the same image in 300 DPI.
How to create a single-source image
This requires a combination of tasks in MadCap Capture, followed by tasks in Flare.
When you are finished with your project, build the targets.
View the output for the targets.
In the output, notice that the images for online outputs (DotNet Help, HTML Help, WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, WebHelp AIR) contain the online settings. Meanwhile, the images in the printed outputs (Adobe PDF, XHTML, Microsoft XPS, Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker) contain the printed settings.
Note: If you use the "Print Format" feature in MadCap Capture to single-source your images, you may need to take into account the DPI (dots per inch) setting that you set for the image in the Capture application. If you specify a large DPI that is recommended for print output (e.g., 300 DPI), the image is likely to shrink when you generate print output. This simply means that you should also resize the width and/or height of the image in Flare to enlarge the image as necessary for the generated output. Usually the best way to do this is to generate the print output, adjust the size settings for the style or image in Flare, generate again, and continue this process until you get the results that you want. The DPI that you specified will be retained, and you will end up with the image dimensions that you need. When resizing pictures in Flare, you also have access to single-sourcing features (i.e., one group of size settings for online output and another group of settings for print output through the use of style sheet mediums). See Resizing Pictures.