Get started with MadCap Flare by starting up a new project, adding some topics to it, doing some basic formatting, and then building HTML5 and PDF outputs (called "targets" in Flare).
The following based on MadCap Flare 2022r3. A video for this unit is available: flare_2022r3_startup.mp4 (transcript of the video).
Details on how to do the following are in the transcript (see above).
Be aware that applying bold, italics, color the way you have probably just done is the "old-fashioned" way. You'll see how to do these things with CSS later in this course.
"Building" a project means compiling it so that users can read and use it. The typical output is HTML5 (a website) or PDF. HTML5 is the focus here; we'll get to building PDFs in one of the next units. The transcript above also shows how to do the following:
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Starting Projects: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2019r2/Content/Flare/Tutorials/Getting-Started-Tutorial/Starting-Projects/Starting-Projects.htm?Highlight=start%20project
Getting Started Tutorial: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2019r2/Content/Flare/Tutorials/Getting-Started-Tutorial/Getting-Started-Tutorial.htm
MadCap Flare Topics Guide: http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/flare2018r2/FlareTopicsGuide.pdf
Topics in Flare. Some good basics here on a variety of Flare things, both basic and advanced.
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