by Stephen Gauer | Oct 7, 2016 | Tools
Flare gives you several basic tools for grouping links to related topics. The most time-consuming method is manual — you create a Related Topics list of hyperlinks at the bottom of each topic page. To do this, type the heading, “Related topics”, then type each topic...
by Stephen Gauer | Aug 22, 2016 | Tools
It’s a nice touch to customize the icons used in Flare’s tripane online help. Sometimes small design touches make a noticeable contribution to the polish and professionalism of online help. In this post I’ll take you through the steps of finding the icons in an output...
by Stephen Gauer | Aug 19, 2016 | Tools
Typography is the art and craft of arranging text on the page and screen for maximum legibility and comprehension. The world of typography changed forever when Jan Tschichold published The New Typography in 1928. Tschichold was part of the 1920s Bauhaus movement in...
by Stephen Gauer | Jan 17, 2016 | Tools
At the ripe old age of 24, Robohelp is the granddaddy of online help and looks it. The familiar layout of folders on the left and topic pages on the right hasn’t changed much over time and appears particularly dated in an era of touchscreens, responsive web pages, and...
by Catherine Girczyc | Oct 5, 2015 | Tools
MadCap Flare is an extremely powerful single sourcing and content management platform capable of publishing to a variety of formats. Today, I’ll cover tips on online help HTML5 outputs. This is aimed at the intermediate Flare user who wants to work with their online...
by Catherine Girczyc | Apr 24, 2015 | Tools
MadCap Flare is an extremely powerful single sourcing and content management platform capable of publishing to a variety of formats. In this article, I’ll cover tips on using Page Layouts for printed PDF documents. This is aimed at the intermediate Flare user who...
