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Moving from FrameMaker® to Flare
Are you currently using Adobe® FrameMaker® and considering moving to MadCap Flare™? Are you using a different tool such as Microsoft Word and considering moving to FrameMaker® or Flare? This article can help.
FrameMaker® certainly has a long history as a leading publishing tool for complex technical documentation. In fact, FrameMaker® turned 25 in 2011. It is still a great tool, and Version 10 includes a number of UI and feature enhancements.
February 7, 2012
ADVANCED USE OF CONDITION TAGS AND SINGLE SOURCING IN MADCAP FLARE
Condition tags allow you to customize your content by displaying or hiding text when a condition that you define is met. In this webinar, Sr. Technical Writer Patti Short will cover the methods she has used in Flare to develop a number of different online help systems, training guides, and a quick start guide using condition tags and single sourcing from one TOC.
August 17, 2011
MADCAP FLARE: MANAGING CONTENT AND FORM FOR TRANSLATION
Translation is a destructive process--both linguistically and electronically. In order to translate written content in the myriad forms in which it can now be authored, we translators must tear the original apart. At the level of meaning we deconstruct the original in order to understand the message, and the text itself must be stripped ...
January 19th, 2011
TEN TIPS FOR IMPORTING FRAMEMAKER CONTENT
Congratulations! You’ve decided to transition your content from FrameMaker® to Flare. As you know, single-sourcing FrameMaker® content is time-consuming and tedious. And buying licenses for separate conversion tools gets expensive. Now you can use one tool to author and single-source your content...
September 16th, 2010
FLARE SINGLE-SOURCING: MY TEN BEST PRACTICES
Necessity is the mother of invention? I say it’s laziness. The first time I had to duplicate content from printed manuals over to an online help system, I started searching for a way to single-source documentation. I tried FrameMaker® with WebWorks with poor results...
June 15th, 2010
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