Archive for October, 2008

MadCap Flare V4 Preview

By Paul • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

The team at MadCap Software has been working on the next version of Flare for several months now, and I’ve been lucky enough to be one of the beta testers who has had an early sneak-peak at what Flare 4 has to offer. Finally, after months of testing, I’m ready to share some of the [...]



DocGuy Training is Online

By Paul • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: News

DocGuy Training is now online! This website will give updates on training opportunities coming from your Certified Flare Instructor, Paul Pehrson. You can also read about Paul’s forthcoming books on MadCap products, and read Paul’s tips and tricks for working with MadCap products.



Flare 4 on Vista

By Paul • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: MadCap Flare, Tips and Tricks

I upgraded my laptop. Actually I bought a new one, and Flare is SCREAMING!
I set up some tests. I built a 200-page PDF directly from Flare 4 on three different machines. The first box is a WinXP box with 1GB RAM. The PDF took 28 minutes to build.
The second machine is my primary work laptop. [...]



Attend a Training Session

By Paul • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Training

Find out when Paul’s next training session will be.
There are two types of classes available: in-person (on site) trainings, and web-based trainings. Let me know what kind of session you are intersted in, and I’ll let you know when the next available session is scheduled.
If you are interested in an on-site training, dates are flexible, [...]



Tool bar icons

By Paul • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: MadCap Flare, Tips and Tricks

There are several buttons in the Flare tool bar that I’ve ignored until now. Two I learned about yesterday in the MadCap forums, and another I discovered on my own. (I decided it was time to figure out what all the buttons do.)
Here are the buttons and their descriptions:

Locate in TOC. This button is [...]