Mike Hamilton Gives Flare Demo to the Suncoast Chapter
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Mike Hamilton from Madcap Software visited the Suncoast chapter in Tampa, Florida, and presented on Flare. In this presentation, he talks about the real story behind RoboHelp and Macromedia/Adobe (this blew my mind). He also provides a lot of inside detail on Flare.
Specific topics in the podcast include:
- Importing and exporting Flare projects (more impressive than you might think)
- One major limitation of Robohelp with single-sourcing when it comes to indexes (oh man, I wish I knew this earlier)
- Flare's visual XML editor (nice)
- Modifying lists and tables by manipulating structure bars with Flare's editor (the technical writer's dream)
- Flare's undockable panes and customization of the workspace (potentially very powerful, especially if you have two monitors)
- The powerful and robust style editor in Flare (truly awesome in scope)
- Madcap Mimic and its purpose, especially in comparison to Captivate (intriguing about the file sizes)
- Madcap Capture and its special layering of images (interesting feature)
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