For buyers of translation services, the service itself can look quite simple: You send your original documents (let’s say, written in English) to your translation service company, and within a few days or weeks German, French, Spanish, etc. files are returned. What’s so hard about that? When the service from your point of view appears to be that...

You work hard preparing and maintaining technical content for your organization. You’re even committed to the “long game”— tackling the MadCap Flare learning curve. You know that committing to MadCap Flare for the long haul will pay huge dividends in the future. With Flare you will reduce repetition across all your content, you will improve...

 If you are a veteran of projects involving translation of your Flare content, you know the drill:

1. Zip up your Flare project

2. Upload it to your translation provider’s FTP or project portal

3. Explain to your translation provider what you need for your current project

It sounds simple enough, but factor in busy schedules, aggressive delivery...

MadCap Software’s Flare authoring and publishing software is a tool that we love. We love it as technical authors, but we also appreciate it for its standards-based technology that is inherently supportive of virtually any language – much like the Internet itself. As a single-source authoring tool, Flare also addresses managing of content to avoid...

We know you love MadCap’s Flare authoring tool. It has made creating your tech pubs easier, faster, and more polished. We also know it took time to get there—using Flare well requires a commitment by technical writers, but the investment is well rewarded. Flare is a robust, feature-rich authoring tool and therefore it has a steep learning curve....

Appropriately planning for the overall life of a project and its translation is paramount. Failing to do so can result in technical debt and troublesome fees, as well as unimaginable frustration and headache. Thankfully, many common issues can be bypassed upfront if technical writers get ahead of the curve by creating projects with the translation...

Automated and agile workflows – which technical editors wouldn’t want that? That used to be wishful thinking for those writing their documentation in MadCap Flare. But things have changed. Find out how you can implement automated and agile workflows when translating Flare projects.

Variables and snippets are frequently used in MadCap Flare projects, and frequently they have an impact on the translation process. If authors don’t think about the translation when using them, the translators might run into considerable problems. So it’s often a good idea to flatten variables and snippets. MEINRAD explains what that means and how...

When working with a translation agency, there’s more than one way to get your Flare content translated. Here’s our guide to the pros and cons of each option.