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Developer’s Description

Create technical documentation for online help, software documentation, and user guides.
Flare is a single-sourcing, topic-based authoring platform, which uses XML markup for maximum flexibility. Whether you need to create technical documentation for online Help, software documentation, policy & procedure manuals, knowledge bases or user guides, MadCap Flare allows technical writers and documentation specialists to create, manage and publish content to a variety of languages and outputs, including print-based, web-based, desktop (internal networks), and mobile formats, such as EPUB.


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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
9.1.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows 7 (32 and 64bit), and Windows 8 including all required updates
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or later
  • Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 (Installed with first use of Flare)
  • Pentium 4 or higher processor with at least 4096MB of RAM and 400MB of available hard drive space.
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6.0.15 or later (for Adobe AIR compiling and for use of the equation editor)
  • Optional Microsoft Word 2003 or greater with the latest service pack (for importing MS Word files and generating Word Output)
  • Optional Microsoft Outlook 2003 or greater (32bit only) for sending review packages
  • Optional Adobe FrameMaker version 7.0 or greater with Distiller (for Importing FrameMaker files, generating FrameMaker Output and PDFs from FrameMaker Output)
  • Optional for viewing Adobe AIR Outputs: Adobe AIR Runtime
  • Optional for Version Control: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005, Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008, 2010 or 2012 (non Cloud version), Subversion 1.5.3 or later
  • Optional for use of the equation editor and for generating PDFs with equations: Design Science Ghostscript
  • Supported Web Browsers for WebHelp Output: Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 3.5 or later, Safari 4.0 or later, Google Chrome, and other browsers that support JavaScript and Framesets.
  • Supported Web Browsers for HTML5 Output: Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox 10 or later, and Google Chrome 13 or later and other browsers that support the HTML5 standard.
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