Flare Desktop offers several print-based output types, but the two recommended above the others are PDF and Word. Following are overviews of each of these.
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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 a device- and resolution-independent fixed-layout format. You can generate PDF output from your project directly, or you can generate a PDF while simultaneously building Word output.
You can also set PDF options in the Target Editor. These options let you specify the way that images, document properties, the initial view, and security are handled in the output.
PDF output consists of a file with a .pdf extension that you can print or distribute to users.
Word
You can generate Word output in one of the following formats: DOCX, DOC, PDF, XPS.
If you track changes in your topics for review purposes, you can preserve these changes in Word output.
Note For Word output, you can use template pages or page layouts to control the configuration of pages in the output. If you use page layouts (which are recommended), you can select an option in the Page Layout Editor that shows the real header, footer, and body areas if the page layout will be used in Microsoft Word output. See Showing the Word Overlay in Page Layouts.
Note Flare Desktop supports Microsoft Word 2003 and newer versions.
Note To create output in DOCX or XPS format, you need to have at least Microsoft Word 2007 installed. Also, Word 2007 lets you create PDF files from Word without needing to have the Adobe Distiller installed.
