Multi-Channel Publishing Key Features

Flare supports multi-channel publishing, which means you can draw from a common set of source files to generate and publish output in multiple formats. This helps to ensure your content is accessible to end users, wherever they are, and however they prefer to consume the information.

Recommended Output Types

Although you have many choices about the kinds of output you can generate, following are the most popular and recommended formats. For more information about the many output types in Flare, and how to choose the best ones for your situation, see Determining the Output Type.

  • HTML5 This output format supports the HTML5 specification developed by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Therefore, the HTML5 format results in better markup and offers unique characteristics and features not found in other outputs (e.g., frameless, responsive, micro content, private output). HTML5 also lets you create traditional Tripane output or the newer Side or Top Navigation outputs, which give your output the appearance of a modern website with integrated responsive skins and content. See HTML5 Output.

  • Adobe PDF Short for "Portable Document Format," PDF is an open standard format for electronic documentation exchange invented by Adobe. PDF files are used to represent a two-dimensional document in an device- and resolution-independent fixed-layout format. See PDF Output.

  • Microsoft Word The output can be exported to Microsoft Word in DOCX, DOC, PDF, or XPS format. See Word Output.

Publishing Destinations

When you build output from your project, Flare produces the output files and places them in a folder with your project files. Publishing simply has to do with copying those output files and placing them in a location where others can access them, such as on a network, a website, MadCap Central, Salesforce®, ServiceNow®, Syndicate, or Zendesk. Of course, you can manually copy the output files from your project folder and paste them wherever you'd like, or you can use FTP software to transfer them to a remote server. Flare's publishing destination feature is simply a way to do this more quickly and easily.

Following are the types of destinations you can use: