I’ve had more than a few questions asking for a review of Author-it or MadCap Flare or a comparison of both. So I decided to do some homework. Initially, I wasn’t sure why they are categorized together. Is it due to the price point? Or is it due to the single-sourcing all-in-one software package aspect? […]
Author-it Table Of Contents expansion
My co-worker Melissa Burpo (yep, I interviewed her before she was my co-worker) has solved a nagging problem with the HTML output from Author-it. The Table of Contents would always lose your place when you expanded one of the TOC items – instead of “keeping your place” vertically, it scrolls your view to the top […]
Understanding the database implementation of Author-it
Author-it uses a SQL Server database to house all of the source material that make up your deliverables. You can export that database content to XML and publish to Word or HTML and other outputs, but the source is stored in a database. For locally-run databases (meaning that Author-it and the database are on the […]