Contributor is a single-document authoring tool that is tightly integrated with MadCap Flare. Contributor is the perfect tool for light content development, especially if your content will be included in a Flare project.
- Review Workflow (Registered) - Using Contributor, you can review and edit documents sent to you by Flare authors. This workflow is for registered users, as opposed to those using the free annotation-only review mode.
- Free Review Workflow (Annotation) - Using Contributor, you can review documents sent to you by Flare authors. With this workflow, you can add annotations to documents, but you cannot edit them.
- Contribution Workflow - You can create original content that can be contributed to MadCap Flare projects, printed, or saved in formats such as PDF, XPS, and XHTML.
- New Document Workflow - You can create and original content that can be printed, or saved in formats such as PDF, XPS, and XHTML, for purposes other than contributing to a MadCap Flare project.
MadCap Contributor Features
- Real-Time Split View Editor - See both XML code and the WYSIWYG editor in real time.
- Right-to-Left Support - Native authoring for right-to-left (RTL) languages.
- Plug-in API - Integrate Contributor with DLL files and add your own customized ribbons, menus, toolbars and buttons.
- Add Images and Other Multimedia to Review Topics - Give your review team additional editing capabilities with the ability to insert multimedia elements, such as images and equations into your review topics in MadCap Contributor.
- Content Management - Access, edit and update files directly from a SharePoint server for streamlined content contribution and review.
- Ease of Use - Allow your subject matter experts and casual content contributors to add content quickly and easily without the need for any technical knowledge of professional authoring and without using Flare.
- Defined Guidelines - Review your content and/or contribute to your authoring projects using pre-defined Flare templates.
- Content Contribution and Review - By using MadCap Contributor, authors can send content out for review without the need to make conversions from other file formats such as PDF and Word.
- Streamlined Workflow and Track Changes - Send reviewed, revised or annotated content back and forth with managers and SMEs via Outlook, SharePoint or External Resources.
- Consistency and Flexibility - Send single topics or multiple topics out to reviewers and contributors for flexible content creation and development.
