MadCap Flare DITA Support

Flare, Blaze and MadCap Lingo now supports the DITA architecture. Now you can use MadCap's topic-based XML authoring approach to further develop, manage, and publish DITA information.

Whether you want to jump into DITA with both feet or slowly work your way into it, the DITA support within MadCap products will work for you. You have all the benefits of multi-channel, single-source publishing without needing additional development resources, toolkits, or custom transforms.

You can now import one or more DITA files at the same time and publish content in either the DITA format or other traditional outputs such as Microsoft® XPS and Word™, Adobe® PDF and FrameMaker®, plain XHTML and more. You can also import content from traditional formats and publish or export this as DITA content.

Most significantly, Flare and Blaze allow users to easily mix and match DITA content with other existing content into a single project, e.g. import a DITA map, some Word documents and a FrameMaker file and publish in any single uniform format.

Benefits:

• Use and work with DITA at your own pace and needs. For example:
  • Import existing DITA topics or projects
  • Import and create a combination of new DITA and non-DITA topics
  • Create and manage DITA maps — related DITA maps simply become additional linked TOCs
  • Support for DITA relationship tables
  • Conversions style wizard — provide full conversion control including tag, markup, and style sheet selection
  • Preservation of DITA formatting including image maps, chapter breaks in book maps, index keywords, tables and lists and more
  • Create a custom look-and-feel for your DITA content
  • Publish DITA content in any other output type such as Microsoft® XPS and Word™, Adobe® PDF and FrameMaker®, WebHelp, etc.
• Save time and money on translation of DITA content with integrated DITA authoring and translation memory with MadCap Lingo Now Available
• Use Team Server to automate and schedule the entire build, analysis, and publishing of your DITA content Coming Soon

In addition to the above benefits, MadCap's DITA solution offers:

• No need for additional open toolkits or Java runtime
• No need for development resources to create custom transforms or other custom programming
• Focus on authoring - no need to focus on syntax details of XML

For a full review of MadCap's DITA solution visit: DITA Solution

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