MadCap Flare – создание справочных систем и электронной документации

MadCap Flare is the most versatile Help authoring tool on the market. In addition to generating an innovative new kind of WebHelp (cross-browser, cross-platform Help), MadCap Flare will generate a new help format designed specifically for .NET application developers (DotNet Help), Microsoft HTML Help (.chm), printed documentation or PDF via Microsoft Word or FrameMaker, and support for the new Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification) and DOCX formats.

In addition to the groundbreaking new visual editor, MadCap Flare is packed with features to make your job easier. Customize your authoring environment. Open multiple documents simultaneously for easy cross-editing. Design browse sequences visually with a simple drag-and-drop. Use the command line to compile your output. Take advantage of auto-numbering. Even use MadCap Flare's patent-pending new interface designs to access the underlying XML structure of your documents in a comfortable visual authoring environment.
MadCap Flare enables you to import all of your legacy content. Import Microsoft Word documents, Adobe FrameMaker documents, HTML documents, RoboHelp® projects, and even HTML Help projects. MadCap Flare will convert them all to XML format, including direct HTML to XHTML conversion.


MadCap Flare Feature List
XML Support

- Pure XML content creation
- HTML to XHTML conversion
- Access to document structure

Import Existing Content

- Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
- Microsoft® Word™
- HTML
- RoboHelp®
- Existing HTML Help projects

Generate Multiple Outputs

- Cross-browser, cross-platform Help (WebHelp)
- Microsoft® HTML Help (.chm)
- Help for .NET applications (DotNet Help)
- Adobe® FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
- Adobe® PDF via FrameMaker
- Adobe® PDF via Word 2007
- Microsoft® Word™
- Microsoft XPS via Word 2007
- Microsoft DOCX via Word 2007

Multi-Language Support

- Fully Unicode content authoring enabled
- Double-byte support
- Extended language support (Incl. Eastern European and Asian languages)
- Localized WebHelp skins
- Fully localized interface in English, French, German, or Japanese

More Single-Sourcing Features

- Single-sourcing images
- Variables (re-usable text)
- Snippets (re-usable content)
- Conditional text
- Easily synchronize with MS Word or FrameMaker documents
- Single-source integration with MadCap Capture and MadCap Mimic

Ease of Use

- Auto-numbering
- Visual document structure display
- View and edit multiple docs simultaneously
- Command line compiling
- Character and symbol library
- Enhanced visual editor
- Enhanced Search and Index (synonym terms in search)
- Create embedded context-sensitive Help
- Customizable style sheets for tables
- Drag and drop table columns and rows
- Single view of all content files
- Color selection tool
- View, filter and access all files from a single list

New in Flare Version 3
Source Control Integration

- Direct integration with Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Integration with most other industry source control systems (that use the MS SCC API interface)
- Easier Team Authoring than in previous versions
- Pending Check-Ins window to show you what files are in your control
- File List — Status and User Columns so that you can see the file activity for the rest of the team
- Request check in Via Email or Instant Message from another team member
- Right-Click Source Control Menu
- Built in Instant Messaging client for rapid communication between team members
- View history and roll back to earlier versions of files

MadCap Feedback Integration

- Web-based and desktop-based targets
- Access to External Feedback Explorer
- Built-in Feedback Explorer
- Community-wide comments
- Author-only comments
- Topics ratings
- Comment actions (accept, hide, discard)
- All search phrases used
- Search phrases with no results
- Exporting feedback data to external files

WebHelp Plus

- Faster server-side search
- Searching of non-HTML content (MS Word documents, PDF files, etc.)
- Automatic runtime merging of projects without any in-project work
- Auto-merged search functionality
- Auto-merged TOC options

Advanced FrameMaker Import and Support

- Pass-through marker support (pass raw content or data from FrameMaker to Flare without any processing or modification)
- Drop-down support
- TopicAlias marker support
- Hypertext Marker / Jump to Named Destination support

Enhanced Style Support

- Expanded table print styles for more control when sending output to MS Word, FrameMaker, or PDF
- Optional basic Style Editor for the new user
- Import styles
- Search highlight styles (customize search highlight colors)

Improved User Interface

- Carrot tag neighborhood markers(a new method for working with inline formatting when necessary)
- New TOC grid view provides more control over TOC editing
- New customizable columns for various Flare interface screens

Other Enhancments

- New Synonym Editor (enhance end user search results)
- Snippet conditions (for times when small differences exist in large pieces of reusable content)
- Add a Web toolbar for HTML output
- Expand all/collapse all buttons (TOC Editor, Browse Sequence Editor, Content Explorer, Project Organizer)
- Can now select multiple TOC or browse sequence entries
- New "Send to Main Dock" option to easily transfer interface elements between editor positions
- File>Properties applies to all file types now
- Default align command
- New option to close all documents except the active one

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