The other week my colleague asked me to write down a few notes about how I handle images with Flare. I realized there’s a lot to know about images, especially when trying to single source them both to print and online outputs. In this post, I’ll jot down a few of the more tricky points Continue Reading »
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Implementing Highlighting in Madcap Flare’s HTML5 Output
If you’ve ever been frustrated by the lack of keyword highlighting in Flare’s HTML5 output, check out the script Scott DeLoach created for this. It works pretty well. Details for the HTML5 Highlighter are on Scott’s site:Â http://www.clickstart.net/highlighter/. I created a quick video tutorial showing how to actually incorporate the highlighter in Flare. It’s not difficult Continue Reading »
Exploring Flare’s Mobile Webhelp Format in Depth
I’ve recently been exploring Madcap Flare’s Mobile Webhelp format. Madcap introduced this new format in version 7, so it’s not a new feature (Flare is now on version 8). Nevertheless, I haven’t used this format much much partly because I haven’t had any mobile projects until now, and because mobile documentation is still so young. Continue Reading »