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Powerful XML-Based Software for All Your Technical Communication, Authoring, and Publishing Needs.
Authoring & Publishing | Analysis & Reporting | Translation & Localization | Multimedia
Authoring & Publishing
Desktop, Web, Mobile and Print
The most complete technical authoring and publishing solution for the web, desktop, mobile and printed documentation.
- Knowledge bases
- Online policy and procedure manuals
- Software documentation, including online Help with context sensitivity
- Print-based user manuals, employee handbooks and illustrated guides
- Hardware and maintenance manuals, and more
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.
- Print-based user manuals, employee handbooks and illustrated guides
- Hardware and maintenance manuals
- Reference books
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
Analysis & Reporting
Scan, Analyze, 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
User Feedback and Reporting
Improve your content with live user feedback, monitoring and reporting for both web-based and desktop documentation.
- Content — Monitor, analyze, and improve your content
- User Behavior — 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
Translation & Localization
A Fully Integrated Translation Memory and Authoring Solution
Eliminate the risk of losing valuable content and formatting between authoring and translation using the industryʼs first truly integrated authoring and Translation Memory eXchange tool.
- Manage content and multiple project files for translation with Project Packager
- Utilize 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
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
Screen Captures Made Easy
Capture, edit and enhance images from your computer screen.
- Capture, edit, add text, and add other special effects to any image or screen capture
- Integrates with MadCap Lingo, Flare, Blaze, and Mimic
Incorporate Dynamic Audio
Add a new dimension to your projects with our easy-to-use audio application.
- Include voice over, sound effects, music or any type of sound element to projects
- Integrates with MadCap Flare
MadCap Software’s complete line of software products have been designed and developed to solve your professional Help, web and print documentation needs - allowing technical writers and documentation specialist around the globe to create and publish truly exceptional content.
Powerful Tools for Technical Writers
Whether you are creating Help systems, eLearning content, knowledge bases, or policies and procedure manuals, our software products allow users to create, manage and publish content to a variety of formats based on the needs and requirements of the end-user.
Intelligent Product Design
MadCap Software’s use of Intelligent Product Design guidelines allow existing MadCap users to leverage their product knowledge from one application to the next, utilizing powerful, intuitive user interfaces.
XML-based Architecture
Using a common native XML-based architecture, our entire line of software products seamlessly integrate with one another, for a complete, end-to-end project workflow solution.