Lately, I’ve been chatting a bit with a some people who use MadCap Flare, or more specifically the MadPak Suite. Something that came up more than once in those chats was MadCap Analyzer, a tool for finding problems in a Flare project and for making various suggestions. Surprisingly, not everyone I talked to has used [...]

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by: Ben Minson MadCap Flare was developed (at least initially) by the group that built RoboHelp, now an Adobe product. When MadCap released the first version of Flare, they wanted the interface to be easy to grasp for RoboHelp users to reduce the pain of switching. I played with the trial version of Flare 1 [...]

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Following the tradition of previous DocTrain conferences, this one started off with a set of day-long pre-conference workshops. For a variety of reasons, I decided to take in the two sessions on topic-based authoring using MadCap Flare. Led my Mike Hamilton (MadCap’s VP of Product Management), the sessions opened my eyes to Flare’s capabilities and [...]

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MadCap Software just release not one but four products. As Sharon Burton notes in her blog, “no one releases four products at once”. Admittedly, the four products are related (and, it appears, capable of being tightly integrated). This wasn’t a major surprise, but it’s still pleasant. Blaze 4 is arguably the most anticipated of the [...]

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Tom Johnson has been working with Madcap Flare for a while now, and has published a blog entry detailing the things he loves and hates about it. What Tom describes can be categorized as more of a like/dislike relationship than something as intense as love and hate. But he gets to the core of some [...]

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