MadCap Flare 2.5 adds new features

MadCap Software has announced version 2.5. This upgrade is free to all existing Flare 2.0 customers.

The new features include:

  • Fully localized Flare interface into German, French, and Japanese
  • Microsoft Word 2007 Support
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Support
  • Improved search (synonym support) in WebHelp and DotNetHelp
  • New output formats via Microsoft Word 2007:
    • Microsoft XPS (XML paper specification)
    • Microsoft DOCX
    • PDF
  • New integration features with Capture and Mimic
    • Insert media directly within Flare
    • Cross-media variable support

The following items have been added to the HAT-Matrix.com, and selected for MadCap Flare:

  • Output: Print (Microsoft Word 2007 .docx)
  • Localization and Translation: Localized Interface
  • Customizing the Outputs: Synonym support in search (HTML-based Help)
  • Output: XML (Microsoft Word 2007 .xps)
  • Output: PDF (Microsoft Word 2007 .pdf)

The following item has been changed:

  • Output: Print (Microsoft Word 2007) is now Output: Print (Microsoft Word 2007 .doc)