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I am fighting tooth and nail to get my company to move away from dead tree (PDF) documentation delivery and onto the web, for several reasons, not the least of which is:
- Our documents are primarily used on a screen
- You can't interact with API documentation from a PDF
- Umpteen versions of PDFs ...

Never mind, one of the developers owed me a favor and was able to get it up and running for me. So excited to put this out there!

If anyone else wants the javascript, PM me and I'll share with you how I did it.

I am trying to add a JavaScript function to have the user press a button and select all of a code sample inside a <div> (which of course contains a <pre>). I have played around with some of the samples online but keep coming up empty because the XML editor in Flare complains about invalid syntax ...

Thanks, Paul! I got something to work. Write on.

Oh, derp! There are mediums for table stylesheets as well.

Mediums get me every time!

Because there is so much more width real estate for a table in online output, is there a way to set 2 separate table widths - one for online output and one for print? I know you can set print size on an image but I am not seeing a way to do this for tables.

Thanks, y'all!

I figured it out - I just had to remove the bullet image defined for <UL> in the CSS, it's in the List properties if someone else runs into this same issue.

Alternatively, you can alter the CSS as follows:
- ul > list > list-style-image=none
- ul > list > list-style-type=[type]

Never mind... I figured it out. I had my mc-heading-level for h2 set to 0 and now it's working like a charm. Thanks!

I'm running into a similar problem. I installed GhostScript but even when I select circle bullets it still renders the bullets in output with the default, which looks something like this:

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Anyone else run into this problem?

The issue I am running into when I set it up so the TOC Depth is used for heading levels is that bookmarks panel in the PDF only generates bookmarks for Heading 1s then. How would I set this up so that when it determines the heading levels based on the TOC depth, it creates bookmarks in the ...

I don't have an answer, but I do have the same question!

From the Flare-generated PDF output, which is what our developers will use.

The <pre> tag is great for preserving line breaks and whitespace, however, when I attempt to copy a block of code into an external program like Notepad++ or our API test client, the tabs are not selected in the copy. Therefore, THIS:

<CSIAPIRequest>
<OfficeData>
<Service></Service ...

Perfecto! This worked like a charm. Thanks so much!

... now on to my next battle.

Sweet action! I'll let you know how it goes

When I generate a PDF, I would like for the structure of the bookmarks panel to match the structure of my TOC, but instead it builds everything off of headings. Is there a way to change this or is it a default behavior? I know I can set the heading levels based on TOC depth, but I don't really want ...

Thanks, Lisa!

We're entertaining the idea of creating a centralized repository of our code samples, since our API takes requests and responses in XML, instead of having the tech writer come in and change code samples every time something updates. Is there a way in Flare to embed the contents of an external XML ...

We finally convinced our Drupal developer to write a script that will pick up folders in subdirectories. But it was worth a shot!

Howdy y'all! By default, when you add an image to a topic, Flare places this image file in the Resources/Images folder. Is there way to change this behavior to have Flare put the images in a user-defined folder! It's not a huge deal of work for us to move them, but it would be a fabulous time saver!

Thanks, Marjorie.

We're already leaving off the /Content part. We're generating HTML5 and importing the HTML files into Drupal. Yes, we want to have the source in a folder structure, but Drupal expects all these topics to be in one Output folder (and yeah, I don't think it's possible in Flare ...

Because we import our output files into Drupal to render on our website, we depend on the images living the directory we specify in pre-processing. However, when the topic gets built, if it's a topic that includes an image modified in MadCap Capture, the processor changes the image path to ...

For our implementation, we currently have to keep all our topic files in a single folder. As you can imagine, this gets pretty unwieldy and while we can work mostly in the context of a TOC, we'd love to be able to divide these topics into folders by functional area.

If we do that, though ...

The autogenerate worked great for me too! Now if only I can figure out how to highlight the correct TOC node when scrolling through...