For each DITA element in your file, a style class is created in Flare as a result. When you import content from DITA files, there is a one-to-one conversion that occurs. However, you can edit style classes that result from imported DITA elements. In this version of Flare, you cannot edit DITA files natively.
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While some writers who require full DITA support might judge this inability to edit DITA files as a weakness, many other writers who choose topic-based authoring might not require DITA support at all. Notice how I didn’t pair “strengths” with “weaknesses”. Fortunately, Flare mitigates this criticism with its ability to generate DITA output with reconverted DITA elements. Meanwhile, one notable criticism is its inability to natively edit DITA files. One of MadCap Flare’s strengths is its ability to natively import Microsoft Word documents, Adobe FrameMaker documents, Adobe RoboHelp projects, and DITA content, among other formats.
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MadCap Flare 10: Trial Version How does MadCap Flare deal with DITA? Next, here are some sexy screenshots of the MadCap Flare 10 trial version, including the black ribbon menu, Start Page, Dynamic Help, and sample split-screen for the XML Editor and Text Editor. Whether or not this lack translates into an actual inconvenience in my everyday work remains to be seen. Compared to the Flare editor, the Oxygen editor lacks the ability to display alternate views for both formatted XML and plain text simultaneously. While there are many negligible differences between the two editor interfaces, one difference stands out the most for me. So instead, based on my brief exposure to both Oxygen and Flare, I’ll compare their respective XML editors on the same level.
Meanwhile, Flare is a single-source publishing package that includes its XML editor. While Oxygen is a powerful XML editor, it’s still only an editor that’s an integral part of a larger single-source publishing package. Here’s my initial reaction from the same previous post.Īctually, comparing Oxygen to Flare is unfair. Since September, one sexy feature that still stands out for me is the simultaneous split-screen views for both the XML Editor and Text Editor.
Not only can I rearrange and save the Window Layout of my window panes, but the Dynamic Help content automatically shifts for the selected window pane!
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After test-driving the free 30-day trial version of MadCap Flare 10 for several days, I’ve found that its user interface is incredibly intelligent. When I say “sexy”, I don’t simply mean its slick black-themed ribbon menu. In my case, from the start, Flare felt “sexy”. And the way a particular form moves you - whether it’s “cool” or “comfortable” or “smart” or “sexy” - or doesn’t move you, is unique to each of us, our preferences, and our circumstances. Just like choosing a new car to buy, it’s not always about its function, but more often about its form. I can’t easily explain my peculiar fondness for MadCap Flare. Not only did the Flare demo impress me more than the Oxygen demos, but ever since that presentation, I’ve thought about buying Flare for my own personal use.” In a previous post, I wrote: “When I attended my first local STC chapter meeting in September, I was exposed to Madcap Flare for the first time too. Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM.
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