Operating Systems Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP
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.