Products

• Flare 6
• Flare Features
• What's New in v6
• System Requirements

Authoring and Publishing Solutions MadPak ML — Authoring and Translation Involved in translation or localisation? The MadPak Multilingual (ML) product suite includes everything you love about MadPak, and combines it with MadCap Lingo, the industry's first fully-integrated translation memory and authoring solution.   MadPak Develop Robust, Professional Documentation Using MadPak For All Your Web, Desktop, Print and Mobile Needs A must have for technical writers and documentation specialists - MadPak includes Flare, X-Edit, Mimic, Capture, Echo, and Analyzer. Tight integration between products makes your authoring and review process, screen captures and edits, and software simulation functions easy and seamless to incorporate into any project. With MadPak, technical writers and documentation specialists can: Create, manage and publish content to the Web, desktop, print and now mobile [New] Save time utilising true single-sourcing across multiple products Integrate media elements into your documentation directly from within the Flare interface by launching Mimic, Capture, and Echo Analyse and improve authoring efficiency with Analyzer Incorporate content from casual contributors and full content review and commenting using X-Edit   Madcap Flare — Desktop, Web, Mobile and Print The most complete technical authoring and publishing solution for the web, desktop, mobile and printed documentation. « more » MadCap Blaze — Long Document Authoring for Print Publishing A new paradigm for enterprise print publishing, Blaze fosters reusability and eliminates redundancy errors common in more traditional book authoring structures through highly flexible, topic-based authoring: Create, manage and publish: Print-based user manuals, employee handbooks and illustrated guides Hardware and maintenance manuals Reference books MadCap X-Edit Family — Short Document Contribution and Review Now casual content contributors can seamlessly provide content to the technical authors using defined guidelines. Casual Contribution — Streamline your workflow by allowing non-technical writers and subject matter experts to contribute content Review — Send documents to managers to review, comment and edit technical documents

Translation and Localisation MadCap Lingo — A Fully Integrated Translation Memory and Authoring Solution Eliminate the risk of losing valuable content and formatting between authoring and translation using the industry's first truly integrated authoring and Translation Memory eXchange tool. Manage content and multiple project files for translation with Project Packager Utilise full Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) support Run statistical reports showing detailed file translation information Import and translate content created in DITA, Microsoft Word, RTF, TXT, XML, HTML and more Integrates with MadCap Flare, Blaze, X-Edit, Capture, and Mimic Multimedia MadCap Mimic — Create Professional Video Tutorials More than a video recorder, Mimic allows for the creation of fully interactive software simulations and tutorials. Create Help, eLearning, technical support, and sales & marketing video simulations Integrates with MadCap Lingo, Flare, Blaze, Mimic and Capture Output to Microsoft Silverlight, XPS, Adobe Flash, AIR, PDF and Mimic Movie Format PowerPoint (.ppt and .pptx) file import MadCap Capture — Screen Captures Made Easy Capture, edit and enhance images from your computer screen. Create, manage and publish: Capture, edit, add text, and add other special effects to any image or screen capture Integrates with MadCap Lingo, Flare, Blaze, and Mimic MadCap Echo — Incorporate Dynamic Audio Add a new dimension to your projects with our easy-to-use audio application. Create, manage and publish: Include voice over, sound effects, music or any type of sound element to projects Integrates with MadCap Flare Analysis and Reporting MadCap Analyzer — Scan, Analyse, Report and Fix Your Projects Increase project efficiency and consistency with powerful analytic tools. Issues — Find broken links, duplicate styles, duplicate TOC and outline items, topics not in selected TOC or outline, and more Used and Unused Items — Snippets, topics, styles, variables, map IDs, and images Suggestions — Snippets, variables, index keywords, new styles, and writing structure  MadCap Feedback — User Feedback and Reporting Improve your content with live user feedback, monitoring and reporting for both web-based and desktop documentation. Create, manage and publish: Content — Monitor, analyse, and improve your content User Behaviour — Understand what users are looking for, finding, and not finding in your content Web 2.0 Functionality — Allow users to add comments, suggestions and rate content Feedback — Create actionable charts from user statistics

Flare 6

True XML-Based Single-Source Content Authoring for Multi-Channel Publishing

MadCap Flare is a powerful, XML-based professional content authoring and publishing software application that allows technical writers and documentation specialists to create and manage content for multiple channel publishing. Whether you are creating projects for complex digital print publishing, desktop publishing, Help systems, or web-based online publishing, MadCap Flare provides a complete set of professional help authoring and content development tools.

Publish to PDF, XPS, Word™, FrameMaker, DITA, XHTML with Integrated Navigation (cross-browser, cross-platform), Microsoft® HTML Help, Mobile platforms (iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry), or DotNet Help using MadCap Flare.
 

How It Works

1. Add content — Import legacy content from Word, FrameMaker or DITA, leverage existing HTML or XHTML pages, or import content from older authoring tools. Or you can create all new content using the world class editor built into Flare, or use a combination of content import and content creation as needed.
2. Define the look of the content — Edit style sheets, create page layouts, add snippets, variables, conditional text, and more, as needed.
3. Define the publishing rules — For each document you need to deliver (online, desktop, or print) you create a Publishing Target. This target contains all of the rules and attributes that make this one document unique and is the key to single-sourcing and multi-channel publishing with Flare. Create as many targets as you need for the project.
4. Create the target — Output to PDF, XPS, Word, FrameMaker, DITA, XHTML (cross-browser, cross-platform), Microsoft HTML Help, or DotNet Help. Specify the TOC for each target and, optionally, the location of the target when it's built. Flare even includes a command line interface so the creation and publishing of your defined targets can be automated, scripted, or even controlled remotely.

Flare Features

True XML-Based Single-Source Content Authoring for Multi-Channel Publishing

MadCap Flare is packed with features and has been designed to give technical writers, content authors and documentation specialists a versatile XML-based authoring and publishing solution. Flare’s intuitive user interface allows users to easily create and manage content, import legacy authoring projects, and publish to a wide variety of sources, all from a single source document. MadCap Software is passionate about its users, and strives to provide all of the features you have come to expect in a high-end, authoring and publishing system, including:

Topic-based Content Development
• Author in structured topic-based content development for powerful, sophisticated information delivery

Maximum Content Reuse
• Easily create, manage and reuse content with conditional text, variables, snippets, outlines, and more

XML Flexibility And CSS Design
• Enjoy flexibility with XML (extensible markup language) and control the look and style of your content with CSS
(cascading style sheets)

Global Project Linking
• Share and update common elements across multiple projects

Product Integration
• MadCap Flare allows for seamless integration across MadCap Software’s entire line of software applications.
• MadCap Feedback Server provides user feedback and reporting
• MadCap Analyzer scans and analyses your project for suggestions to improve your project efficiency and consistency
• MadCap Mimic, Capture, and Echo provide powerful multimedia publishing integration for your projects
• MadCap Lingo enables translation and localisation
• Contribute content using MadCap X-Edit Contribute and/or insert comments using MadCap X-Edit Review

System Requirements

Flare

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 (32 and 64bit).
• Required Software:
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later
  • Microsoft SQL Compact Edition (Installed on first use run of Flare)
• Pentium 4 or higher processor with at least 1024MB of RAM and 420MB of available hard drive space.

Target outputs of Flare

• WebHelp and Webhelp Plus
  • Required: Microsoft Internet Explorer (7.0 or later recommended); Mozilla FireFox 2.5 or later; Safari 3.0 or later
• Microsoft HTML Help
  • Required: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
• DotNetHelp
  • Required: Flare Help Viewer
• Microsoft Word Import and Output
  • Required: Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 or later
• FrameMaker Import and Output
  • Required: FrameMaker versions 7.x or later with Distiller (for FrameMaker Output and PDFs from FrameMaker Output)
• Webhelp AIR
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (for Adobe AIR compiling)
  • Adobe AIR Runtime (for viewing Adobe AIR outputs)
• 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
International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995