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MadPak — The Ultimate Authoring Suite
MadPak is the industry's first true single-sourcing product
suite, resulting in the tightest product-to-product integration
ever seen.
- Enjoy true single sourcing across multiple products
- Seamlessly integrate media elements into your documentation
- Launch MadCap Mimic, Capture, and Echo from within the Flare
interface, so you can quickly insert Mimic movies, Capture
screen shots and Echo audio to topics.
- Improve your project efficiency and consistency and add speed to
your authoring with MadCap Analyzer
MadPak combines the products you need to develop and deliver
rich robust documentation at one low price.
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Madcap Flare — The
New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source
Publishing
With Flare, you have a complete authoring and publishing
system with full support for maximum content re-use
(single-sourcing) and you can publish to online,
desktop, and print formats (multi-channel publishing).
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MadCap Blaze —
Your Long Document Print Solution
With Blaze, you have a complete product for developing
long printed documents:
- Topic-based content development
- Content reuse with conditional text, variables,
snippets, outlines, and more
- Flexibility with XML and CSS
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MadCap X-Edit Family —
Your Short Document Creation Solution
Using the X-Edit family improves your corporate workflow
by allowing subject matter experts and occasional
contributors to seamlessly review and provide content
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MadCap Press — The
XML-Based 'Glossy Print' Solution
With MadCap Press you can easily create high-end,
media-rich print documents, such as marketing
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MadCap Lingo —
Never Get Lost in Translation Again
MadCap Lingo, an XML-based, fully integrated translation memory
and authoring tool solution, eliminates the need for file
transfers to complete translation.
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Workflow and Collaboration |
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MadCap Team Server —
Managing Your Content Workflow
MadCap Team Server is a new content management and team
collaboration product, soon to be available from MadCap
Software.
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Multimedia |
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MadCap Mimic —
Easily Create Software Simulations
MadCap Mimic is a straightforward software simulation
tool that lets you quickly and easily create movies of
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MadCap Capture —
Screen Captures Made Easy
MadCap Capture lets you easily capture anything that
displays on your computer screen as an editable image.
Further enhance the images by adding text call-outs,
cursor arrows, special effects and more. |
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MadCap Echo —
Dynamic Audio Integration
Add a new dimension to your documentation projects by
adding audio!
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Analysis and Reporting |
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MadCap Analyzer —
Report, Analyse, Suggest, and Fix Your Projects
No one likes surprises, especially when you should have
caught the issues before your users saw them. |
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MadCap Feedback — User Feedback and Reporting
Get live user feedback on your content for Web-based and
desktop documentation which allows you to monitor,
analyse, and improve your content. |
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MadCap Search Optimizer
— The Next Best Thing to Using Flare
Automatically creates a WebHelp search database from
generated output, which is downloaded and accessed by
users via the free MadCap Toolbar. |
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The New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source
Publishing
With Flare, you have a complete authoring and publishing system with
full support for maximum content re-use (single-sourcing) and you can
publish to online, desktop, and print formats (multi-channel
publishing):
- Topic-based content development
- Content reuse with conditional text, variables, snippets,
outlines, and more
- Flexibility with XML and CSS
You can easily create:
- Policy and procedure manuals
- Knowledge bases
- Software documentation including online help with context
sensitivity
- Reference books, manuals, or illustrated guides
- Hardware or maintenance manuals
- And more
Flare integrates with all MadCap products so you can extend the power of
Flare as your needs grow.
- MadCap Feedback server provides reports on customer usage of
your documents
- Mimic, Capture, and Echo provide multimedia publishing
integration
- MadCap Lingo enables localisation
- Analyzer scans your project for suggestions to improve your
project efficiency and consistency, and adds speed to your authoring
- Contribute content using X-Edit Contribute and/or insert
comments using X-Edit Review
You just won't believe how easy your life can be. Imagine, the power and
flexibility of content management but at prices anyone can afford. You
choose the specific modules that you need and will actually use. Why
didn't someone think of this sooner?
Overview
Madcap Flare includes all the features you expect in a high-end
XML-based publishing system, including:
- Single-sourcing to multiple outputs including straight to the
printer, Microsoft XPS, PDF, Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word,
cross-browser and cross-platform formats for use over networks or
the Web, and formats for the Microsoft Windows desktop (Microsoft
HTML Help and our popular DotNet Help)
- Conditional text to create multiple versions of your content
from one source
- Variables and snippets specify pre-set terms (variables) and
pre-set chunks of formatted content (snippets) from a library of
reusable elements
- Cross-references that become hyperlinks online and page number
references in print
- Auto-numbering for volumes, sections, paragraphs, and pages
- Complex page layouts including graphics, headers, footers, and
multiple columns
- Unicode support to author in any left-to-right language,
including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and more
- Multiple document Outlines provide as many outputs as you need
- Global Project Linking — share and update common elements across
multiple projects
- And more...
Features
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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
localisation
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 synchronise with Word or FrameMaker documents
- Global Project Linking — share and update common
elements across multiple projects
- Master style sheets
- Master TOC at project level
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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
- Enhancemented 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
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Flare
- Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4Not
all Flare v4 Features will be available; Windows XP Service
Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista
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Software:
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Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0 (for Windows 2000 only)
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
- Microsoft SQL
Compact Edition (except on Windows 2000) (Installed on first use
run of Flare)
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Recommended: Pentium 4 or higher
processor and 512MB of RAM
Target outputs of Flare
- WebHelp and Webhelp Plus
- Required: Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.5 or later; Mozilla FireFox 1.0 or later; Safari 1.3
or later on Mac OS X
- Microsoft HTML Help
- Required: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
or later.
- Printed Documentation
- Required: Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 or later
- DotNetHelp
- Required: Flare Help Viewer
- FrameMaker Import and Output
- Required: FrameMaker versions 7.0 or or
greater with Distiller (for FrameMaker Output and PDFs from
FrameMaker Output)
- Webhelp AIR
- XPS
- Internet Explorer 7 or Microsoft XPS Essentials
Pack (for viewing XPS outputs)
- PDF
- PDF viewer such as Acrobat (for viewing PDF
outputs)
| For more information please contact the MicroWay sales
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Head Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd
PO Box 84,
Braeside, Victoria, 3195, Australia
Ph: 1300 553 313
Fax: 1300 132 709
email: sales@microway.com.au
ABN: 56 129 024 825 |
Sydney Sales Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd
PO Box 1733,
Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Australia
Tel: 1300 553 313
Fax: 1300 132 709
email: sales@microway.com.au
ABN: 56 129 024 825 |
New Zealand Sales Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd (NZ)
PO Box 912026
Victoria Street West
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Tel: 0800 450 168
email: sales@microway.co.nz |
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International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995
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