Flare is the industry benchmark in multi-channel, single-source publishing. Flare helps documentation experts, technical writers, and Help authors harness the power and benefits of XML without any XML language programming knowledge. Our unique visual editor allows users to write content just like you would in Microsoft Word.

Flare is the New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source Publishing
With Flare, you have a complete authoring and publishing system with full support for maximum content re-use (single-sourcing) and you can publish to online, desktop, and print formats (multi-channel publishing):
1. Topic-based content development
2. Content reuse with conditional text, variables, snippets, outlines, and more
3. Flexibility with XML and CSS

You can easily create:
1. Policy and procedure manuals
2. Knowledge bases
3. Software documentation including online help with context sensitivity
4. Reference books, manuals, or illustrated guides
5. Hardware or maintenance manuals
6. And more

Flare integrates with all MadCap products so you can extend the power of Flare as your needs grow.
1. MadCap Feedback server provides reports on customer usage of your documents
2. Mimic, Capture, and Echo provide multimedia publishing integration
3. MadCap Lingo enables localization
4. Analyzer scans your project for suggestions to improve your project efficiency and consistency, and adds speed to your authoring
5. Contribute content using X-Edit Contribute and/or insert comments using X-Edit Review

You just won't believe how easy your life can be. Imagine, the power and flexibility of content management but at prices anyone can afford. You choose the specific modules that you need and will actually use. Why didn't someone think of this sooner?

Features:
Import Existing Content
1. Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
2. Microsoft Word
3. HTML/XHTML
4. RoboHelp projects
5. HTML Help projects
6. DITA

Generate Multiple Outputs
1. Cross-browser, cross-platform Help (WebHelp or WebHelp Plus)
2. Microsoft HTML Help (.chm)
3. Help for .NET applications or Windows Vista (DotNet Help)
4. Adobe FrameMaker (.fm, .mif, .book)
5. Direct PDF (no need for Adobe Distiller or Word 2007)
6. Microsoft Word (.xml, .doc)
7. Direct XPS and DOCX
8. WebHelp AIR (Direct Adobe AIR integration)
9. Pure XHTML
10. DITA

Print-based Output Features
1. Choose between Print and Web layout views
2. Page layouts
3. Context-sensitive cross-references
4. Footnotes
5. Topic preview for print-based output types
6. Generate headings in output based on TOC structure
7. Heading variables (easily insert heading variables, glossary terms, and index terms)
8. Hyphenation control
9. Mini-TOC for a single chapter or section
10. Short line elimination
11. Widow and orphan control
12. Zoom/scale pages
13. Page breaks on table rows
14. Image resizing with aspect ratio maintained

Team Collaboration
1. Incorporate document contributions from others
2. Send topics out for review and accept or reject changes
3. Incorporate/transfer review comments (annotations) into topics
4. Contribution templates (contributors use elements and formatting you want)
5. Locks (choose areas of content that reviewers can and cannot edit)

Multi-Language Support
1. Fully Unicode enabled
2. Double-byte and Asian language support
3. Language support for Eastern European languages
4. Seamless integration with MadCap Lingo for easy localization

Single-Sourcing Features
1. Generate multiple targets from one project
2. Variables and Snippets (re-usable text and content)
3. Single-sourcing of images
4. Conditional text (at all levels)
5. Style sheets for topics and tables
6. Easily synchronize with Word or FrameMaker documents
7. Global Project Linking - share and update common elements across multiple projects
8. Master style sheets
9. Master TOC at project level

Ease of Use
1. Auto-numbering
2. Visual document structure display
3. View and edit multiple docs simultaneously
4. Command line compiling
5. Drag-and-drop table columns and rows
6. View, filter, and access all files from a single list
7. Disable styles that you do not use
8. IntelliSense for matching text, frequent phrases, and variables
9. Zip and email projects
10. Project toolbar for easy access to common tasks
11. Style pick window (quick way to apply styles)
12. Open files by dragging from Windows to Flare
13. Insert snippets by dragging from Content Explorer

Power and Flexibility
1. Advanced reporting with Analyzer (over 20 project-specific reports)
2. ASPX, HTML, and other custom file extensions for WebHelp output
3. Enhanced Indexing (including index links and auto-indexes, which let you automatically add words and phrases in your project to a generated index)
4. Image file format support including .xps, .xaml, .wmf, and .emf (ToDo: List All Formats)
5. Context-sensitive Help testing (now available for DotNet Help)
6. Wildcard search support for DotNet Help

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

Flare - The New Industry Benchmark in Multi-Channel, Single-Source Publishing
1.Add content - Import legacy content from Word , FrameMaker or DITA, leverage existing HTML or XHTML pages, or import content from older authoring applications. Or you can create all new content using the world class editor built into Flare, or use a combination of content import and content creation as needed.
2.Define the look of the content - Edit style sheets, create page layouts, add snippets, variables, conditional text, and more, as needed.
3.Define the publishing rules - For each document you need to deliver (online, desktop, or print) you create a Publishing Target. This target contains all of the rules and attributes that make this one document unique and is the key to single-sourcing and multi-channel publishing with Flare. Create as many targets as you need for the project.
4.Create the target - Output to PDF, XPS, Word , FrameMaker , DITA, XHTML (cross-browser, cross-platform), Microsoft HTML Help, or DotNet Help. Specify the TOC for each target and, optionally, the location of the target when it's built. Flare even includes a command line interface so the creation and publishing of your defined targets can be automated, scripted, or even controlled remotely.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of MadCap Flare, you can buy this desktop publishing software software.