MadCap Flare Demo Podcast Ahead of RoboHelp Release
MadCap Software is obviously out evangelizing for their Flare help authoring tool, trying to get ahead of Adobe’s revamped RoboHelp 6. Back on January 5, the Suncoast (Tampa, FL) chapter of the STC hosted a demo of Blaze by Madcap’s Mike Hamilton, and captured the audio as a podcast.
The demo covers the following topics:
- The real story behind RoboHelp and Macromedia/Adobe (this blew my mind)
- 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)
Head to Tech Writer Voices for the podcast. Madcap vs. Adobe is shaping up to be a real David and Goliath rivalry… it’ll be a while, though before we know if it plays out like AMD vs. Intel, or WordPerfect vs. Microsoft.
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