Flare 12: A stronger focus on multilingual output and responsive content

MadCap released its 12th version of Flare in March, just ahead of the 2016 MadWorld conference that was held earlier in April. Here is a summary of the most important new features.

Text by Denise Kadilak

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Flare 12: A stronger focus on multilingual output and responsive content

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The new iteration of Flare includes a number of new features that mostly improve upon existing functionality. While, in Flare 11, MadCap introduced the game-changing Top Navigation feature, Flare 12 introduces new tools that allow users to take this content to another level by simplifying the responsive design process and allowing for more granular control of output through expanded conditioning and advanced stylesheet management options.

Multilingual targets

Flare 12 makes some nice improvements to better accommodate multilingual outputs. In version 12, HTML5 and PDF targets allow users to list all languages they want to include in a build and link each language to its translated Flare project. For example, if users use MadCap's Lingo with a source file translated into several different languages, and they want to include all the languages in one output, this is possible in Flare 12. ...