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I thought I'd update this topic: The tool that worked best is called Mass Image Compressor. On a trial run it reduced a 300Mb image library of mostly png's down to 100Mb. The canvas size was always untouched, and it reduced image size by reducing colour bits and resolution - there were many 4 or 8 b...

Thanks for the responses all, I'll check out the recommended tools.

I've completed a mammoth conversion of FrameMaker documents into Flare. The output was PDF from FrameMaker and it's now HTML5 from Flare. It generated over 2000 web-safe images in jpg and png format. I've noticed that some of the images are much bigger than they need to be. E.g. a png that was 700kb...

I'm creating HTML5 help with a Tripane skin with Flare 2021 r3. I've encountered a weird issue that may be a bug in Flare. My project already had a Contents tab with a ToC in the navigation pane, but I decided to experiment with adding a Browse tab. But when I removed the browse tab (by de-selecting...

Some of our users can't have internet access, so we install our software to their desktop PCs from a DVD or USB drive. The help (HTML5 Tripane skin) is part of the install as a zip file. The installer unzips it and puts it in a help folder so that any help calls from our software can find it.

Thanks Psider, that worked. I added sans-serif to the font-family in the CSS for tables and MainStyles and it now renders ok on both Windows and Linux.

Hi. I'm producing HTML5 help with the Tripane skin. I've had a few issues with poor font substitution on SUSE linux. The CSS specifies Sans as the font family, and this works ok in Windows (Edge, Chrome, FF) and Red Hat linux (only tested on FireFox). But it's being substituted with a Times Roman lo...

I've just encountered this same issue - the dev team and product owner would rather the /subsystems folder have a meaningful name in our HTML5/TriPane help system. The merged projects are all small apps, and they'd like the folder to be labelled /apps. Is the folder name subsystems hard coded into F...

Thanks Dave, that fixed the problem. I changed the values in the target and they applied to the output.

I'm using Flare 2020 R3 to produce HTML5 output with Tripane skin. I have some docs that mention the current version of our software, so rather than type it in many times for each release I've added a variable name VersionNumber and a value 2021.0 to Project > Variables > General (the file called Ge...

I have several small projects in Flare 2019 R2. They all have 8-12 topics under 3 book files in the navigation pane of my Tripane HTML5 help. I.e. the ToC looks like: Intro Book 1 - topic 1 - topic 2 - topic 3 Book 2 - topic 4 - topic 5 - topic 6 Book 3 - topic 7 - topic 8 - topic 9 Is there a setti...

We use PDFs for a few of our user facing docs. Some are output from Flare with 'madbuild', and some from FrameMaker + Acrobat Distiller. Now when we try to open a PDF that's been output by Flare as a print PDF target, and is built from madbuild, we get the error message in the attachment i.e. a secu...

SKamprowski wrote:Hi,

your customers might have problems if you publish a chm on a network drive, unless they have really old Internet Explorer versions installed!

True - I have low expectations of success for Google Analytics in a CHM...

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone had managed to get Google analytics (or similar) working from CHM help? I have a couple of old products to maintain that still have a big user base. It would be very useful to find out which bits of the help are accessed the most. This old thread from 2013 asks the ...

Thanks for the tip about turning off Insert Mark of the Web: I had the same problem as the OP with links to PDFs not opening in IE (but they did work in FF and Chrome). Now with Insert Mark of the Web = unchecked links to PDFs open in all 3 browsers.

Hi all... I'm producing two user guides from one project. It has 2 target audiences with lots of overlapping content; developers and end users, and hence two output targets in Flare. Both use the same Tripane.flskn skin. Is there a way of replacing the logo PNG in the Tripane skin's header with a va...

ChoccieMuffin wrote:...
Hope that gets you started.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

I'm using Flare 2018 r2 with the project stored in SVN. It builds CHM & WebHelp targets with no problems. Yet when I created a branch of the project in SVN (I've nearly finished working on the 2018 release and need to simultaneously start working on the 2019 release). When I try to build the CHM...

I was planning to take a look at Pulse too. It would be useful to know which help pages our users access the most for example, or which they rate the best/worst.

Looks like it could be tricky and time consuming to get working well though, from what I'm reading here...

I'm working on a document with lots of tables, it's going to be output as HTML5 Tripane and PDF. Most of the tables are 4 column and I want them to have fixed but different column widths, e.g. column 1 = 2cm, col 2 = 8cm, cols 3 & 4 both 2.5cm. I was hoping I'd be able to create a table style th...

After some thrashing around I solved it by myself! I just need to save the Target name with the desired output folder name e.g. Target = WebHelpApp1 saves it in the folder /WebHelpApp1. Now they all have different, non clashing, names.

Hi. I'm using Flare 2017 r3 on Windows 7. I have 3 small utilities that I have to produce WebHelp for. I want to have the Flare project save the output to folders called something like WebHelpApp1, WebHelpApp2, and WebHelpApp3. Can anyone tell me where the output folder name can be changed from the ...

Thanks. I did try with tables, but couldn't complete the task over 2 hours. Then after sleeping on it and starting from fresh this morning I got usable footers after about 20 mins with tables. Now onto making custom formatted ToCs & LoFs...

Hi, I'm using Flare 2018 R3 on Windows 10 to produce PDFs. I want to create a footer in a page layout (.flpgl) doc that has a variable for the doc title on the left, and the page number variable on the right for right pages, and the other way around for left pages. After much experimentation I can't...

@Wclass I did try those settings, but the borders still intermittently appear, depending on the zoom level. It's not a show stopper so I'll just put it down to a quirk of how Acrobat Pro DC and Flare output play (it's not an issue with PDFs from FrameMaker). I'll set notifications = on for this thre...