Best Practice Flare: High Definition PDF
Having introduced the concept of high definition PDF's output straight from Flare's source files with minimal post-production, we can now start to dig into the technologies that are used to produce it.
Tech Write Tips (2006). Articles>Documentation>Software>Madcap Flare
Flare 5: Adding Advanced HTMLHelp Features
Flare current provides the majority of HTMLHelp settings, and does this in a much more flexible way that HTMLHelp workshop does. Particularly useful are the WYSIWYG help window size and potitioning. However, there are some advanced HTMLHelp settings (such as advanced help, or remembering the users last help settings) that are not currently available.
Tech Write Tips (2006). Articles>Documentation>Software>Madcap Flare
Tech Write Tips is a collection of authors with a variety experience in the technical writing industry. We all have in common a technical bent, the desire to get the technology to work. We aim to provide posts that both explain and expand our readship’s understanding of this rapidly evolving field.
MAML is part of a new approach to help in Windows Vista. This approach is both more integrated with the software and more focused on user tasks. MAML provides a structre in which you can write user assistance information, which can then be presented to the user in a variety of locations.
Tech Write Tips (2006). Articles>Documentation>Online>Help
XPath is a way of pulling out particular data from an XML document. It is used by XSL to determine what should be output in your documents. It is essentially a systematic way of defining an address of each piece of data.
Tech Write Tips (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>XSL
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