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Mike Hamilton Gives Flare Demo to the Suncoast Chapter
January 5th, 2007 | Posted in Tech Writer Voices |
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Duration: 109 min.
Mike Hamilton from Madcap Software visited the Suncoast chapter in Tampa, Florida, and presented on Flare. In this presentation, he talks about the real story behind RoboHelp and Macromedia/Adobe (this blew my mind). He also provides a lot of inside detail on Flare.
Specific topics in the podcast include:
- Importing and exporting Flare projects (more impressive than you might think)
- One major limitation of Robohelp with single-sourcing when it comes to indexes (oh man, I wish I knew this earlier)
- Flare’s visual XML editor (nice)
- Modifying lists and tables by manipulating structure bars with Flare’s editor (the technical writer’s dream)
- Flare’s undockable panes and customization of the workspace (potentially very powerful, especially if you have two monitors)
- The powerful and robust style editor in Flare (truly awesome in scope)
- Madcap Mimic and its purpose, especially in comparison to Captivate (intriguing about the file sizes)
- Madcap Capture and its special layering of images (interesting feature)
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January 27th, 2007 at 7:01 am
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February 6th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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May 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Is this supposed to be audio only? No video?
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Yes, just audio. I realize video would be better, but we’re not there yet technically.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Val, there is a Flare demo 5/9/07 at 2pm Pacific
Time. Ask someone at madcapsoftware.com for details.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am
RoboHelp was the only product mentioned by name in the promotion that offers a discount for switching. However, I’ll not assume that Mike Hamilton has anything to do with MadCap’s marketing, since he’s involved in the product management. Thepodcast that Tom mentionedhas Hamilton saying he wanted to disband some myths floating out on the Web about what happened between him and Macromedia. A brief summary: When Macromedia acquired eHelp, he expected RoboHelp to go to the next level, but they primarily wanted