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MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio, today announced that MadCap Flare 11.0 is now available. Flare, MadCap’s flagship software, is the most advanced single-source, multi-channel authoring and publishing solution available today, supporting the ability to publish to a number of devices and formats including print, Web, desktop and mobile.MadCap Flare 11.0 introduces a new industry paradigm by adding the ability to break the traditional tri-pane delivery of online Help and technical content delivery and giving technical authors the ability to publish out-of-the-box “frameless” output for HTML5 that more closely resembles a modern, SEO-optimized, and completely customizable informational website.Flare 11.0 also adds Universal 3D (U3D) format support for adding realistic, interactive images to output; the ability to embed YouTube and Vimeo movies directly into Flare output; and integration with Metaio Creator to support augmented reality–the ability to scan any content element with a mobile device and display any type of additional material and graphics, including interactive 3D models and animations.At the same time, new features in MadCap Flare 11.0 enhance the content author’s experience and authoring efficiency. These include the ability to build output targets while creating content; absolute positioning to control where graphics and other images are placed within text simply by dragging and dropping them; and PDF stitching that allows authors to combine several existing PDF files into one cohesive PDF file.Additionally, Flare 11.0 provides integration with MadCap Software’s latest software acquisition, Doc-To-Help, the market’s leading Microsoft® Word™-based authoring tool for multi-channel publishing. Also included in Flare 11.0 are features for expanded content management and team authoring through enhanced support for various source control applications as well as integration with Git.“Multi-channel publishing is rapidly gaining mainstream adoption as more companies aim to synchronize content across multiple devices and deliver content to meet users’ expectations in a modern, informational website-type format,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We have been delivering on that commitment with MadCap Flare, first by fostering the evolution from .CHM to WebHelp and then to traditional tri-pane HTML5. Now with Flare 11.0, we are pioneering the next industry standard of online technical content delivery with frameless, informational website output that matches a user’s website and optimizes navigation, usability and SEO. At the same time, Flare 11.0 continues to advance its industry-leading approach to single-source, multi-channel publishing of content to users’ channels of choice, from print to the Web, mobile devices, desktops, and embedded in software.”