This is the inaugural Translation Tool evaluate. And, satirically, the device I am going to check isn’t always strictly for translation. I am pressured to speak about MadCap Software’s Flare Single-Source Publishing utility. Flare was created by means of the unique designers of RoboHelp. I wager the smart people who came up with RoboHelp back inside the ninety’s got tired of seeing their brainchild being sold and offered like an old Honda Accord. They sooner or later broke out on their own and placed their high-quality ideas into growing Flare.

For the sake of complete disclosure, I do no longer acquire any enumeration for endorsing Flare or any of MadCap’s merchandise. I ought to also disclose that I am now not a hardcore person of any assist/single-supply authoring tool. However, I do manage manufacturing personnel who need to aid these tools as part of our company’s translation and localization services, and I must be capable of guide our customers in the quality preference of gear that will higher enable translation and localization. Suffice it to mention, that I am near enough to the grumbling and complaining when one tool versus every other is used and the final results isn’t as accurate as is probably anticipated. This is a view from the trenches.

Flare does an remarkable process assisting 39 languages, which encompass most of the major languages for enterprise. The listing isn’t too unique from what RoboHelp claims to assist. Currently, neither of the gear assist bi-directional languages along with Hebrew and Arabic with out huge customization. Both RoboHelp and Flare utilize Unicode to allow multilingual man or woman encoding, so primary problems with displaying text efficaciously are not a main trouble with both product.

I will say that MadCap is one of the most effective software program corporations that truely makes the effort to attain out to the translation and localization industry and concentrate to our studies approximately handling multilingual authoring and publishing of Help systems and other report codecs, and then proceeds to incorporate what they analyze into the product. We have in my opinion experienced how nicely MadCap responds to addressing new capability and the way quickly they pass to increase assist for brand spanking new features and languages.