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Subject:TECHWR-L Premium Jobs, Events, and Announcements From:TECHWR-L Listowner <admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com> To:archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:05:08 -0600 (MDT)
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NEW! MadCap Software Announces New Releases of Mimic and Lingo
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Mimic V2: Communicate Visually
Create fully editable, interactive movies that show how a
software application or system works.
* Several output formats to choose from:
* Microsoft® Silverlight (New)
* Adobe® Flash®
* Adobe® AIR (New)
* Mimic Movie Format
* PDF (New)
* XPS (New)
* Full Integration with MadCap Lingo for seamless
* translation and localization (New)
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* Cross-product variable support
* And much more
Easy to Use
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1. Record
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3. Distribute
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operating systems command line. If you are a Flare author,
embed the movie in your Flare project.
Easy to Access
Your users can view and listen to demonstrations; interact
with simulations; or read through presentations, using the
Mimic movie viewer or their familiar Internet browsers.
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MadCap Lingo V1.5 Now Available
Reduce Translation Costs and Time-to-Market
MadCap Lingo is the most integrated authoring tool and
translation memory system the industry has ever seen. Never
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New in Version 1.5:
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Taking the power of translation and localization beyond the
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* Find and Replace and Find-in-Files search
Advanced tools to rapidly update multiple instances of
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* Improved Diff Project creation
Now interim releases of documentation projects can be
streamlined making the process faster and more efficient.
* New keyboard shortcuts
Increase localization speed and focus.
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