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Right-to-left language support: Only in the Open Toolkit.Out of the box, both Flare and the Open Toolkit provide strings (that is, localized output for interface elements such as the “Table of Contents” label) for simplified and traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai (I have omitted variations such as Canadian French). The Open Toolkit wins on volume and for right-to-left languages Flare wins on easy configuration (I’m detecting a theme here.) (Don’t believe me? Read the DITA Open Toolkit User Guide - actually, just skim the table of contents.) Tweaking CSS in Flare’s visual editor is straightforward, and changes automatically cascade (sorry) across all the project files.įlare wins. I added the owl logo and in the header, changed the default font to sans-serif, and made the heading purple. I took some DITA files, opened them in Flare, made some minimal formatting changes, and published to WebHelp.

Customizing Flare output is easier than configuring the Open Toolkit.

Flare provides a default template for web help output (actually, three of them: WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, and WebHelp AIR).

We have created web help systems by customizing the Open Toolkit output, and that approach does make sense in certain situations, but the option to publish through Flare is appealing for several reasons: Most important, in my opinion, is the option to publish cross-browser, cross-platform HTML-based help (“web help”) because the DITA Open Toolkit does not provide this output. Let’s take a look at the most important Flare/DITA integration pieces.Īfter importing DITA content into Flare, you can publish to any of the output formats that Flare supports. Also, I highly recommend TubeChop for extracting a portion of a YouTube video.)

(My web site stats prove that you people are suckers for video. The initial coverage reminds me a bit of this: You might also read the official MadCap press release.) (If you’re looking for a discussion of all the new features, I suggest you wander over to Paul Pehrson’s review. This review looks at the DITA features in the new product. However, with the release of Flare 5, MadCap has added support for DITA. As a result, our interest in help authoring tools such as Flare and RoboHelp has been muted. These days, most of our work uses XML and/or DITA as foundational technologies. Flare 5 DITA feature review (Part 1: Overview and map files)