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FrankyT

Thanks. I had consulted the Flare documentation before asking my question. I interpreted "The output does not include any ... navigation" as meaning that there was no "master file" that gathered together the topics in the same way that the old MCBOOK file used to do for the now-d...

FrankyT

Hello User Assisters, I'm generating a set of files in Clean XHTML format. In the Table of Contents that is generated, all the headings are formatted as top-level-headings, regardless of their levels. Each item in the TOC has the following format: <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0...

FrankyT

I've solved the problem. It isn't documented and I deduced it from Flare's behaviour in other situations. The correct format for including a variable inside a tag (as opposed to plain text) is [%=VariableSet.VariableName%]. So my link now looks like this: <MadCap:xref href="[%=CustomVariables.x...

FrankyT

I don't know if anyone can help... I'm using Flare's new snippet variables feature to alter certain words in the snippet according to the context in different topics. It works well with simple text-based variables, but when I try to use a variable in an attribute for a cross-reference target - <MadC...

FrankyT

It's possible that you've accidentally "pinned" a style. If you click in the right of a style box in the Styles panel, the style jumps up to the top of the list (below "reset class"). Pinned styles appear to be sorted alphabetically above other styles, so it is easy to think they...

FrankyT

I have been working on a Flare project (not one I created) in which one of the source files has the following opening element: <html xmlns:MadCap=" http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd " MadCap:lastBlockDepth="10" MadCap:lastHeight="3677" MadCap:lastWidth=&q...

FrankyT

I've fixed this problem. There were two causes, neither of which is easy to guess: 1. Madcap has changed the format of glossary files, introducing a new glossTerm attribute of the GlossaryEntry element. E.g. <GlossaryEntry TermClass="Hyperlink" glossTerm="Glossary.Term16"> <Terms...

FrankyT

I am getting empty glossaries in some PDFs. No rhyme or reason to it. They use the same link path as other PDFs where the glossary prints fine. All these glossaries printed fine in PDFs output in Flare 10. The link is: /Content/Common/glossary_page.htm I have checked and double-checked. All the docu...

FrankyT

I don't know about the technical issues, but from a purely administrative point of view, 50 videos will create a lot of maintenance work for future releases. All it needs is one widget adding to the UI, and you have to record the whole lot again. If you've not produced videos before, make sure you p...

FrankyT

Flare will be network dependant for project sharing/ multi user considerations. If you want to share projects (and are not using source control) you will need to put it on a netwrok drive. I'm using source control (thought everybody did these days) and am not sharing the project. I'm guessing autos...

FrankyT

I am finding Flare 2017 unusably slow at certain locations in my office . And I do mean unusably slow. I'm talking about half a second's delay between a key press and the UI updating, every time . The issue is clearly network-related, since there are locations from which it works OK - i.e. Flare is ...

FrankyT

I think someone told me it's standard not to have content in any TOC entries other than the "leaf" topics in a CHM; at any rate, that's how this CHM is structured. Interesting. I was not aware of that! Don't quote me on that. You certainly can have topics hanging from non-leaf nodes in a ...

FrankyT

Sorry to hear that - did your previous method (conditioning the topics themselves) not remove whole nodes in v10? How did it handle the sub-items? I guess I've always tagged in the TOC so I am used to that behavior. In Flare 10, conditioning a topic (=file) rather than the TOC entry resulted in the...

FrankyT

Good suggestion re. making the TOC read-only, but unfortunately it didn't work, as it causes the node to be completely removed from the generated TOC, and along with it any child nodes

Thanks anyway.

FrankyT

I've recently upgraded to Flare 2017 from Flare 10 and am struggling to get a TOC to do what I want in response to different conditional settings for different targets. In Flare 10, the Table of Contents entries were static: each entry's content was created from its title or first heading when you a...

FrankyT

There may be good reasons for not allowing this. Some web servers might get confused by this...just guessing. Underscore or a dash should work fine. This looks like a bug to me. Paths with dots in them are ubiquitous, both on the web and in local file systems. It looks as though the Flare code is a...

FrankyT

Update... I've solved the problem of the footers not updating: I needed to edit the Properties of each individual content HTM file (not TOC entries) and in Topic Properties delete the Topic Title so that it got replaced with "(Always use the first topic heading)". Still can't work out how ...

FrankyT

When I add a file to a table of contents, the first heading in the file is used as the label of the TOC item in the TOC editor. It also seems to be used as the System.Title value in my company's appendix master pages, so it appears in the footer. If I edit the title, the change isn't reflected in th...

FrankyT

Haven't revisited this thread till now, but the problem was not just with H2: it occurred with other elements as well. In the end I edited the XSLT so that it stripped out the spaces at the source. This was easier than running the XSL stylesheet and then post-processing to get rid of the spaces. Thi...

FrankyT

I want to crop a new image, but I can't. Steps: 1 I created a new image (New > New from Profile). 2 I took a screen shot outside Capture, using the Print Screen button (because I wanted a menu option to be selected: a screen shot from Capture deselects everything). 3 I pasted the screen shot into th...

FrankyT

Unless I'm wrong (which I might be), I think the shortcoming lies with CSS, not with Flare (which is not a word processor). Well, Flare is a tool for producing professional-quality documents, which surely makes it a word processor by any sensible definition! As for where the shortcoming lies: Madca...

FrankyT

When viewed on the monitor, or when printed? Images in PDFs are notoriously bad viewing on a monitor unless you zoom really far in. An image that's small on the page (e.g., 2" x 3") but has a high resolution (e.g., 150dpi or 300dpi) may look terrible when viewed on a monitor unless you zo...

FrankyT

Thanks Lisa, but it's resolution I'm talking about, not dimensions. For example, say I have 2 screen shots, one that is 768 pixels wide, and one that is 810 pixels wide. Clearly, they are of /similar/ size, but if I specify an absolute width for them both in print output (e.g. 11cm), then there will...

FrankyT

I want to produce a PDF in which all images are the same resolution (but not their default size, which is too big for PDF output). The problem is that Flare does not allow you to specify percentage image sizes in PDF output: you can only specify absolute sizes. Currently, this means that I have two ...

FrankyT

I have a Flare document that was converted from another format via XSLT. The XSLT left carriage returns and tabs at the start of some text nodes. E.g.: <h2> Sample GET response </h2> For Web output this is not an issue, since browsers ignore initial whitespace characters. However, when I output to P...

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Re: Clean XHTML - No Table of Contents indentation

Clean XHTML - No Table of Contents indentation

Re: Snippet variables in attribute values - a bug?

Snippet variables in attribute values - a bug?

Re: Style classes in stylesheet are not visible in style win

Flare adds a d1p1 namespace - why?

Re: Empty glossaries in PDFs (Flare 2017)

Empty glossaries in PDFs (Flare 2017)

Re: How many videos is too many videos?

Re: Flare very slow

Re: Flare very slow

Re: Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions

Re: Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions

Re: Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions

Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions

Re: Output file name contains a dot (.)

Re: Possible to set a chapter label to reflect heading?

Possible to set a chapter label to reflect heading?

Re: PDF: Whitespace in headings being replaced by spaces

Can't crop a new image

Re: Scaling images in PDF output?

Re: Scaling images in PDF output?

Re: Scaling images in PDF output?

Scaling images in PDF output?

PDF: Whitespace in headings being replaced by spaces