Posts Tagged ‘pdf’

Reducing PDF File Size

By Paul • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: MadCap Flare, Tips and Tricks

Today Sarah asked a question in the Flare forums about reducing the file size of the PDF that Flare creates. I’ve also noticed that Flare’s output PDF file is quite large, around 10 MB for a 200-page document with images.
Sarah was wondering if there was a pre-build solution for this problem, and I don’t think [...]



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. [...]