“Flare” by MadCap is a competing Help Authoring Tool to rival Adobe’s RoboHelp and is based in xHTML. Some of the major features that Flare has which RoboHelp does not include: completely open architecture, advanced topic/code editing which is viewable and can be synced at the same time, redacted text support, equation support and snippet conditions. The bottom line is that a Help Authoring Tool such as Flare could make a valuable weapon in the technical writer’s arsenal if mastered sufficiently enough.

How it is used in the industry:

Flare is used in the industry to create online help documents that runs on HTML platform. They are mostly used for creating context-sensitive help with applications.

Where can you learn more about Flare:

You can learn Flare tutorials in http://www.madcapsoftware.com/videos/.