Document Contribution and Review
MadCap Contributor makes it simple and easy for anyone in your organization to review and contribute content to your documentation. Subject matter experts and content contributors outside the document management team can edit and review topics, make annotations, and update content with a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tight integration with Flare makes MadCap Contributor an essential tool in the contribution and review process.
Watch Video: Meet MadCap Contributor
Learn how MadCap Contributor allows subject matter experts and content contributors outside the document management team to edit and review topics, make annotations, and update content with a simple, easy-to-use interface.
What's New in Contributor 5
Real-Time Split View Editor
A split-view editor setting allows authors to see both XML code and the WYSIWYG editor in real time, plus:
- Horizontal and Vertical Orientation
- Auto Complete
- Syntax Coloring
Native Right-to-Left Language Support
With native authoring for right-to-left (RTL) languages, reviewers and content contributors can now review and edit content in both left-to-right and right-to-left languages.
RTL language support includes:
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Persian
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Advanced Print Improvements
New print enhancements give added control to print-based outputs, including:
- Page Layout Editor Improvements
- Crop/Registration Marks
- CMYK Support
- Create First Pages on Left or Right Side
- Built-in advanced print, web and mobile design templates
Character Dialog and Symbol Enhancements
A new Character dialogue lets you insert special characters easily into your content, along a new Insert Character drop-down menu and optional Word shortcut keys.
Dictionaries
Using a new dialogue, easily see which dictionaries are installed on your computer or import dictionaries that you have downloaded.
Plug-in API
A new plug-in API lets you integrate Contributor with DLL files. Add your own customized ribbons, menus, toolbar buttons and more.
Key Features
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Video: MadCap Contributor Workflow
View this recorded webinar to see how you can significantly expand your authoring and review process. This webinar will demonstrate sending content from Flare to MadCap Contributor for edit and review as well as how SMEs can create new content using MadCap Contributor.
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Free Review for Managers and Subject Matter Experts
Now your managers and subject matter experts can enjoy free review using annotation.
Note: The trial version of MadCap Contributor includes a non-expiring, free review with annotation mode, allowing for perpetual review between SME, managers and Flare authors.
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Add Images and Other Multimedia to Review Topics
Give your review team additional editing capabilities with the ability to insert multimedia elements, such as images and equations, into your review topics in MadCap Contributor.
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Review Packages in TOC View
Review packages can now be sent from Flare’s TOC using the TOC View, allowing reviewers to see review candidates in context of the entire project and TOC.
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Content Management
Access, edit and update files directly from the SharePoint server for streamlined content contribution and review. For those not utilizing content management systems, the new External Resources feature lets you access files (content topics, images, etc.) stored on any accessible network.
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Ease of Use
Allow your subject matter experts and casual content contributors to add content quickly and easily without the need for any technical knowledge of professional authoring and without using Flare.
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Defined Guidelines
Allow SMEs and managers to review your content and/or contribute to your authoring projects using pre-defined Flare templates, allowing them to focus on content without messing with your formatting or project styles.
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Content Contribution and Review by Anyone in the Organization
By using MadCap Contributor, authors can send content out for review without the need to make troublesome conversions from other file formats such as PDF and Word documents.
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Streamlined Workflow and Track Changes
Send reviewed, revised, or annotated content with track changes back and forth with managers and SMEs via Outlook, SharePoint or External Resources.
Advanced track changes in MadCap Contributor help manage the editing and review process:
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Consistency and Flexibility
Send single topics or multiple topics out to reviewers and contributors for flexible content creation and development.
Avoid the hassle of converting content from Word and other formats to ensure consistency throughout your documentation contribution and review process.
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Subscription, Multi-user Perpetual and Floating/Enterprise Licensing Options
New licensing options mean greater flexibility to fit the unique needs of your organization. With subscription licensing, you can significantly reduce the contribution and review workflows of authoring for as little as $7 per month per user.
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Additional Software Licensing Options
In addition to our standard single named-user perpetual license, we are pleased to offer:
Subscription Licenses
- Available for Flare, MadCap Contributor, MadCap Lingo and Mimic
- 3 months (does not include Flare or Contributor), 6 months and 12 months subscription available
- Includes free product upgrades and updates, and unlimited email support (bronze level maintenance) for the duration of your subscription
Multi-user Perpetual Licenses
- Available for Flare, MadCap Contributor, MadCap Lingo, Analyzer, Mimic and Capture
- Install software on multiple computers using a single license key
- No registration required for each user
- Completely flexible – add any number of users at any time using the same license key
- No internet connection required (product can still be used when disconnected from internet)
Floating/Enterprise Licenses
- Available for Flare, MadCap Contributor, MadCap Lingo, Analyzer, Mimic and Capture
- Unlimited installations/activations across company
- Floating license includes bundled maintenance (1, 2 and 3 year contract available)
- Completely flexible – add any number of users at any time using the same license key
- Can be installed on a network server and accessed remotely by users
- Internet connection required to use software
"SMEs can pop in and out of the documentation task without having to set aside swathes of time, and the content they produce can be integrated much faster. My colleague handles the operations manual, and at times has up to 10 contributing authors using the Contributor template. Even then everything looks consistent, and that's important because we put a priority on standards."| Fitness First Group
