MadCap Blaze™ — Your High-end Print Alternative

Blaze is the latest product under development from MadCap Software. Scheduled for release in 2008, Blaze is the ideal solution for producing long printed documents. You can easily create books, manuals, illustrated guides, and more.

Now, with MadCap Blaze, you have a complete package: ease of use, power to create long documents, flexibility, and room to grow in the future. You just won't believe how easy your life can be. To receive early pre-release versions and help shape Blaze - Try Blaze Today >

Madcap Blaze includes all the features you expect out of a high-end publishing system, including:

• XML Foundation. MadCap Blaze includes a unique patent-pending visual XML editor, fully driven by schemas and cascading style sheets (CSS). However, you don't need to know XML to use Blaze.
  
  
• Importing. Bring in documents from products such as Microsoft® Word® and FrameMaker®. Madcap Blaze ensures that content and settings such as cross-references, variables, and autonumbering formats are kept intact. You can import existing content and start working right away.
  
  
• Single Sourcing to Multiple Outputs. Quickly produce output for a single document in a variety of formats, such as: straight to the printer, Microsoft's new XPS format, Adobe PDF, Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word.
  
  
• Unicode Support. Author content in any left-to-right language, such as French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and more.
  
  
• CSS Support. Work smarter by using CSS when formatting content in Blaze. Creating, incorporating, and maintaining CSS files in Blaze is very easy and saves you hours of effort and time.
  
  
• Conditional Text. Produce multiple versions of your content by using condition tags. For example, you can produce a beginner and advanced version of a manual without having to create two separate documents. Simply use condition tags in your documents to indicate which content should be used in which output.
  
  
• Layouts. Create linked page layouts, which let you reuse content, graphics, headers, footers, multiple columns and page numbering throughout your documents.
  
  
• Variables and Snippets. Reuse content by creating pre-set terms (variables) and pre-set chunks of formatted content (snippets) and inserting them into your project.
  
  
• Autonumbering. Incorporate customized automatic numbering in Blaze. Create numbered volumes, sections, paragraphs, and pages, which automatically update when you add or remove content.
  
  
• Cross-References. Make full use of cross-references, which are "automated" links that let you connect one area of a document to another area.
  
  
• Multiple Document Outlines. Quickly create and use as many different document outlines for as many different outputs or purposes as you need.
  
  
• Powerful and Flexible Indexing System. Keep your document indexes current and consistent by using markers and the Index Explorer. Use the Index Entry Mode to create index markers quickly and see the big index picture.
  
  
• Glossaries. Add professional glossaries to your documents. You can even automatically generate footnotes for your documents based on glossary terms and definitions.
  

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