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We're considering the drop shadow for some of our screen grabs, but the we're looking for something a touch more feathered or diffuse. Is there a way to spread the shadow in MadCap Flare? Think of outer glow that happens to be dark.

Ideally we might want apply this to text, too ...

The object here is not to be producing on-line help per se , but allied documentation that will only very occasionally need to be updated.

I guess I'll experiment and get back to you nice people!

It will have a strong design element and that is where InDesign is parsecs ahead of Flare as the ...

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Our tech pubs content -- admin PDF, user PDF and on-line help -- is all single sourced by MadCap Flare. We do have other corporate needs, however. I am wondering whether InDesign can 'pick up' MadCap Flare outputs. Obviously, it's too much to expect that InDesign will read Flare projects so I ...

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This is probably a foolish question, but how does one increase the spacing for the vertical separator, pictured above? As you can see, it partially covers the star to its left.

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That's what I would be looking for in a 'regular' project but there doesn't appear to be a resource directory -- at least obviously -- for the web skin project. For example, when I right click the skin project to look inside it using the internal text editor, there's no link to a .css file.

What am ...

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How do you change the h1/h2/h3/paragraph styles inside of webhelp skin topics? I've customized the toolbar and accordion but the location of the styles for the topics themselves is a bit hard to find.

Any advice? I'm sure it's right in front of me, but where...?

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I need to import a FrameMaker book into Flare V7 but seem to encounter an issue preventing this. I select Import Project from the File menu and then choose FrameMaker Documents.

After clicking Next I select Add Files and use the dialogue box to navigate to my book file. Clicking Open then ...

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This may be a foolishly obvious question but how does one add a few underlined tab stops for, say, a signature line in a document? I've created a snipped for a name, title and date signature block but the tab key seems mapped to the Create Group function.

Please and thanks!

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I'm researching MadCap Flare and am wondering if the software can go to the open source http://www.mediawiki.org as a target? I can't seem to find much about MediaWiki on your otherwise excellent site.

If not, is there a middleware that someone has used for an intermediate transformation? Ie ...