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Haha, nice! :D
Good ol' stuff! :)
Yeah, I think sprites are an interesting concept too, which works wonders in MadCap's web output.
The HTML5 output is indeed our primary publishing target, but we get requests from our customers to have a printable format, preferably PDF.
Especially the Installation ...

No worries, Ramon, your response is definitely useful.
You're perfectly describing the dilemmas we are facing.
There's one extra and that's file size.
The documentation is filled with lots of imagery. This is done, because our old manuals were walls of text nobody read.
We want to make the ...

Don't know if this has already been asked, but lately I have been struggling with images for our documentation using Flare.
What I am trying to do is reducing the number of screenshots.
I've been using a lot of them and many times I'm making an extra screenshot for an area that was already present ...

Hi LTinker68,

Missed your reply, but thanks!
I will try that...

I've searched this forum for an answer to my question, but I haven't found one.

For a number of screenshots that I've added to my documentation, I've instructed Flare (V8) to create thumbnails (PopUp) of the original.
This is working fine in the HTML5 output, but when I build and view the PDF ...

Thank you very much, Ramon, for your quick and comprehensive answers!

Using ini files instead of the XML files is not an option to us as the decision to work with RESX/XML files has been made a long time ago.

I'm going to look into resgen and XML parsers...

I'm quite new to MadCap, so I'm not sure if this is the right sub-forum. But here goes...

For our software solution we make use of RESX files (.Net Managed Resource files [Visual Studio 2010]) that contain all text elements used throughout the solution.
The text elements are basically stored in a ...

Thanks, Ramon!

We're going to investigate that option.

Hi all,

Maybe I haven't searched the forum thoroughly enough, but I couldn't find a topic that concerns the following issue.
I'm writing technical documentation for the software package (Windows Desktop applications created with VB.Net [Visual Studio 2010]) that we're currently developing and ...

Sorry to bump this topic, but if anyone is still interested in the initial problem (getting the current year automatically in your content), I've solved it by inserting a little script (javascript).
This did the trick for me:

Hi Dave,

Maybe it's because I'm quite new to all this, but I've noticed that at times the files I want to link to are (forcefully) copied and placed into TFS, while I just want it to be a real links.
Perhaps it's my idea about files being linked or maybe I'm doing something wrong at re-importing.
I ...

LOL! :lol:
Yeah, it seems Flare's handling is not that logical or intuitive as I would have hoped.
I've played some more with these settings and if I understand you and Flare correctly, the best way is to initially import the global files, check them in: now they're linked.
Whenever there's a ...

Hmmm, I find this a bit confusing.
I've linked some files via a global project.
Initially, this is correctly indicated by the link image in the file icons.
When I run a Build or do a Re-Import these change back to the icons used with source control (TFS), showing a lock or red check image.
I suspect ...

Hi heal,

Thanks a million!
That was really helpful!
I think I've got it to work now.
The link graph is showing in the document's icon, so I guess it should work now.
I'll being do some tests to be sure, though.
Once again, thank you very much!

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your quick reply.

Having the same (TFS) project path on everyone's PC could be a little tricky, as we do have the same folder structure, but not the same drive allocation (some put it on C:\, some on D:\).
I guess I was hoping Flare would offer the possibility to traverse ...

Hi Dave and heal,

Could you please elaborate a bit on that?
I'm new to Flare and have set up Flare (version 7.2) in conjunction with TFS.

But now I'm figuring out how to link my separate Flare projects to a global Flare project that contains all resources and shared content for these projects. All ...