Translate your Flare help content without the manual rework, with native MadCap Flare support

If you own technical documentation and help content in MadCap Flare, you know translation has always meant working around, not through, the tool: export into an intermediate format, lose structure in the process, translate, then manually rebuild the Flare project before anything can be published.

That rebuild step is where conditional tags break, cross-references go stale, and a translation that should take a day stretches into a week, every single release. It's a small version of a bigger problem: teams that can't adapt their workflow as fast as their content changes end up buried in manual rework instead of shipping.

Smartcat now reads Flare projects natively: no export, no rebuild. Upload a Flare package as-is, and Smartcat automatically splits it into individual topics, applies your existing TM, glossary, and AI translation exactly as it would on any other project, and reassembles the result back into a valid, publish-ready Flare project when translation is done.

Preview support lets you check the translated output in context before it goes anywhere near your live documentation.

• Native Flare package import. Upload a .flprj file as-is. Skip the manual conversion and file-prep step that used to start every project.
• Automatic topic splitting. Flare content is broken into topics the way Flare itself structures it. Your TM and glossary matching behave exactly as they do on any other project type.
• Format-preserving reassembly. Translated content comes back as a valid Flare project. Publish without a manual rebuild step, every time.
• Preview support. Check translated content in context before it ships. Catch a formatting or cross-reference issue before it reaches your live help center, not after.

• A help-content team localizing a full Flare-based knowledge base into eight languages skips the export/rebuild cycle entirely, cutting a multi-day manual step out of every release.
• A technical writer reviewing a translated Flare topic uses preview support to confirm formatting and cross-references survived translation before sign-off.
• A documentation team on a tight release cadence runs Flare translation through the same workflow as their other content types, instead of routing it through a separate, slower process.

"When we talk about expanding into other regions now, the sentiment has shifted from 'no, we can't do that' to 'that won't be a problem,' which is a huge competitive advantage." – Ellen Kelly, Director of Product Documentation, Kaseya

1. Upload your Flare project as a standard project source file.
2. Smartcat splits it into topics automatically, preserving structure.
3. Translate as usual: TM, glossary, and AI translation all apply normally.
4. Download the reassembled package, ready to drop back into Flare.

New to setting up projects? Read Create a project in Smartcat in the Smartcat Help Center.