Flare™ — The New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source Publishing

Import Existing Content

• Adobe® FrameMaker® (.fm, .mif, .book)
• Microsoft® Word™
• HTML/XHTML
• RoboHelp® projects
• HTML Help projects

Generate Multiple Outputs

• Cross-browser, cross-platform Help (WebHelp or WebHelp Plus)
• Microsoft® HTML Help (.chm)
• Help for .NET applications or Windows® Vista (DotNet Help)
• Adobe® FrameMaker® (.fm, .mif, .book)
• Direct PDF
• Microsoft® Word™ (.xml, .doc)
• Direct XPS and DOCX
• WebHelp AIR (Direct Adobe® AIR integration)

Multi-Language Support

• Fully Unicode enabled
• Double-byte and Asian language support
• Language support for Eastern European languages
• Seamless integration with MadCap Lingo for easy localization

Single-Sourcing Features

• Generate multiple targets from one project
• Variables (re-usable text and content)
• Conditional text (at all levels)
• Style sheets for topics and tables
• Easily synchronize with Word™ or FrameMaker® documents

Ease of Use

• Auto-numbering
• Visual document structure display
• View and edit multiple docs simultaneously
• Command line compiling
• Drag-and-drop table columns and rows
• View, filter, and access all files from a single list

Source Control Integration

• Direct integration with Microsoft® Visual Source Safe and Microsoft® Team Foundation Server
• Integration with industry source control systems that use the MS SCC API interface
• Faster server-side search
• Searching of non-XHTML content (Word™ documents, PDF files, etc.)
• Automatic runtime merging of projects without any in-project work