Posts Tagged ‘MadCap Flare’

Upcoming books

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

Paul is pleased to announce that he is working on two different Flare books. The first, due in the beginning of 2009 is a Frame to Flare book. (See Paul’s call for help here).
The second book is going to be an getting started guide for Flare 4 / Blaze 1. Stay tuned for more details [...]



Input needed for Frame to Flare book

By Paul • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Featured Articles

This post is for recovering Frame users who have switched to Flare, or users of Frame who are authoring in Frame, but are publishing with Flare.
I’m working on a book that will address importing projects from FrameMaker to Flare/Blaze, and I’d like to get your input on what struggles you had when you were (or [...]



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 [...]



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. [...]



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 [...]