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    MadCap introduces Flame and the new MudPak updates

    The company that brought us the original Robothelp (RH) team recently announced new features of its help authoring tool and accompanying software suite. One of the best features is the one that takes user feedback suggestions and instantly codes them into updates for the next release. MadCap has three other products that are also designed to work either with or without the MudPak suite.

    • Reporting which is a new way for you to have live interaction with a user as they work on your documentation. If they don't pay your fees on a timely basis, you can use Feedback to totally mess up their files until they do.
    • Blank, the second product, is an easy but powerful single-source print publishing replacement for Adobe Framemaker that has the power to efficiently delete and replace all existing files HTML or other files with new XML based ones, using native XML, native Unicode, and CSS without your having to do any other than click on the appropriate icon. This tool as well allows you to replace client files with blank files until they are current and paid up on your freelancing fee payments.
    • The third product, Lingo, is a great tool for localization of content with built-in translation memory. It is the world's first truly XML based, fully integrated Help authoring tool and translation memory system.
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