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Eric, thanks for the response. Even though I unchecked the Auto Reimport before 'Generate Output' checkbox, the newly imported topic (into Project B) has a link symbol beside it. That makes me nervous. I was hoping for a one-time, no-strings-attached relationship between my original and copied ...

Hi All,

Is there a simple way to import a topic from one project to another without globally linking it? I really just want to preserve the verbiage and the .jpg images. This would be a one-time pass from one project to another.

Project A and Project B both share the same page layout and ...

Good to see that my team still isn't alone in the world with merged projects and still ineligible for TopNav frameless HTML5 output. Has anyone heard any gossip about the new "side navigation"? I suspect it suffers from the same limitations. But thought I'd check the pulse in case something has ...

A question about this from the shallow end of the pool. I opened up styles.css and added the code for "varySize" and "video." But the first part about adding css styles to video tags. Is this added in the text editor for the topic? I know this is probably very basic. But I need to know where this ...

Hi All,
I'm using Tripane (yes, still) in Flare V12. Someone pointed out to me that when they resize our online help window (after using "Restore Down" as per Windows mouse-over - as opposed to "Maximize" window) the images in the documentation stay the same size while the text gradually adjusts to ...

Thanks for the tips. The snippet is the way. Will experiment with the Important CSS rule, too. Sober with hair still on my head. thanks.

Pulling my hair out on this one. I've created a new table style that indents the left table margin to 100px (exaggerated to spot the difference quickly). The preview window for the TableStyle I created shows the table row indented. Looks good. But when I click the Table button on the Insert tab and ...

I've scoured the forum for an answer to this, and I may have passed my eyes right over the answer already. But it's highly possible I simply don't know enough about styles yet to identify the right tools to do this job.
I already have a p.Bullet style in my style editor. And I've also created a p ...

ChoccieMuffin,

Yes, if you take the time to think about it, that makes perfect sense. (I found a little time and took it.) Different PDF target, different print PDF Table of Contents, different set of pages. Thanks for orienting me. Even bigger fudge: for cross-references that direct to a different ...

I am transitioning to using cross-references instead of hyperlinks. The process seems fairly straightforward, and I inserted a couple earlier. For online output, I checked the links in preview and both look good. Then I generated PDF output to see what it would look like in our PDFs.

The first ...

For the sake of sharing, I'll post the resolution to the problem above (or blunder, depending on how you look at it). This has to do with Capture, in addition to the fact that I'm at a point in my career with Flare where knowing a little can potentially be dangerous. I use Capture as one of the ...

Hi ChoccieMuffin,
Thanks for the response and suggestion. I don't see any notes in the documentation warning against using Global Project Linking and Top Navigation. But I don't think it would work for us, as I understand things. We have a number of software modules that live independently from our ...

I'm green behind the ears (aka, newbie in these posts). And it's been quite a journey familiarizing myself with Flare, learning the right terminology, and refining my searches so that I could finally arrive here at this particular string. It's not the diagnosis I wanted to hear. But at least I feel ...

Just when I thought I was getting the hang of styles I've run into this problem with a missing .png image in the p.style class I created for a "tip" style, but only for PDF output.
No_icon.JPG
The image is in the Image folder of each project I want to use it in. I've double checked to make sure ...

Similar to widows and orphans, I'm wondering if anyone has a trick in Flare for linking headings or captions to an image or a table that follows, so they don't become separated on different pages when generating PDFs. I understand you might do this by using a page break. But I believe that will also ...