MadCap still baking Blaze
At the STC Summit in Minneapolis last week, I was disappointed that MadCap Software was not yet demonstrating its print-centric product called Blaze (their “FrameMaker alternative”). New development of help authoring tools has been somewhere between slow and non-existent for much of this decade. MadCap Flare has helped to break this stagnation by motivating other help authoring tool vendors to increase their level of innovation. We look forward to seeing the effect of similar pressure on the Adobe FrameMaker development team. Competition is good.
Scott Hudson said,
January 7, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Also disappointing, is the fact that MadCap still hasn’t brought in a DocBook or DITA export capability. These are many of the same folks that worked on RoboHelp, and that software had a DocBook export. It really shouldn’t be that hard to include DocBook and DITA exports and imports. Could open up a whole new realm of authoring…