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Authoring and Publishing Solutions
MadPakThe 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.
 

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
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 for your documentation.
MadCap PressThe XML-Based 'Glossy Print' Solution
With MadCap Press you can easily create high-end, media-rich print documents, such as marketing collateral, product brochures, newsletters, and more.
Translation and Localisation
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.
 
Workflow and Collaboration
MadCap Team ServerManaging Your Content Workflow
MadCap Team Server is a new content management and team collaboration product, soon to be available from MadCap Software.
 
Multimedia
MadCap Mimic Easily Create Software Simulations
MadCap Mimic is a straightforward software simulation tool that lets you quickly and easily create movies of software or systems without any programming knowledge.
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.
MadCap Echo Dynamic Audio Integration
Add a new dimension to your documentation projects by adding audio!
 
Analysis and Reporting
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.
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.
MadCap Search OptimizerThe 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.



 

Flare 5

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

Flare Diagram

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

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

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

 

System Requirements

Flare

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista
  • Required Software:
    • Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 (for Windows 2000 only)
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
    • Microsoft SQL Compact Edition (except on Windows 2000) (Installed on first use run of Flare)
  • 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 team:
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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