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by paintedturtle
Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:44 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Overriding Maximum Image Size for Thumbnail Pop-ups
Replies: 3
Views: 2025

Re: Overriding Maximum Image Size for Thumbnail Pop-ups

Thanks Dave and Alex, these comments helped me 4 years into the future! I want a "large" thumbnail with a larger popup and this worked, I tweaked it to 600px. 8)
by paintedturtle
Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:06 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Page layout doesn't get applied to an individual page
Replies: 5
Views: 2240

Re: Page layout doesn't get applied to an individual page

I have a Flare TOC for PDF output like this: - Title page (this is a one-page PDF) - Copyright page - TOC proxy page (to insert the contents list) - Link to another Flare TOC (to insert the actual topics) Most of the book has the same running header and footer, but I want the copyright page to have...
by paintedturtle
Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:01 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Zip Project file is just Content folder?
Replies: 6
Views: 2895

Re: Zip Project file is just Content folder?

Update. I used 7 Zip to view the project zip file and I do see the Project folder, so it's an issue with the unpacking not the zipping. Thinking it might be related to low disk space on my local drive. When I get more space I'll try unpacking again and either prove or disprove my theory. You'll nee...
by paintedturtle
Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:06 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Change table body row to table header row?
Replies: 6
Views: 3508

Re: Change table body row to table header row?

I'm sorry--can you be more specific? I select the row and then go to which menu and submenu at the top? If I go to Style under Home , I do see th and td, but when I select th it doesn't get formatted as specified in my Tables stylesheet. You could also open up your table style, click on "Apply...
by paintedturtle
Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:12 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Broken Images in Final Output
Replies: 15
Views: 11989

Re: Broken Images in Final Output

Afternoon, I'm currently running Madcap 2017 v. r2 and have encountered a rather frustrating problem: I am using a screen capture program 'Snagit' to capture screens and upload them into topics for our companies online help so it's HTML5. I am uploading my content to a single sharepoint. I've notic...
by paintedturtle
Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:03 am
Forum: Getting Started and Installation Issues
Topic: How to manage projects for multiple software versions?
Replies: 8
Views: 6548

Re: How to manage projects for multiple software versions?

pjtwriter wrote:I may use the Export Project feature to create a backup before I do anything too drastic.
You can zip the entire project in a few clicks on the Flare UI: Project > Zip Project > Zip Project. It saves it in a PDF in about 5 minutes. I do this daily as a backup because I'm paranoid. :D
by paintedturtle
Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:50 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Target Word results in error 10086
Replies: 3
Views: 1836

Re: Target Word results in error 10086

henkjans wrote:hello forum,

till now I use dotnethelp as target.
but for translation purposes I would like to have my project on paper, so I changed target to Word.
Have you looked into the different settings for the Word Target? Do you have a separate CSS stylesheet for print?
by paintedturtle
Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:28 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Grouping notes in a frame
Replies: 8
Views: 3502

Re: Grouping notes in a frame

You might want to read about the footnotes in the Flare Help. https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/Footnotes/Inserting_Footnotes.htm They usually go at the end of a page but can go at the end of a section, if you can make one page a section? You can also preview Print Layout in your XML ...
by paintedturtle
Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:19 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Grouping notes in a frame
Replies: 8
Views: 3502

Re: Grouping notes in a frame

Hello and thanks to both of you for your answers ! @pacdam : I know exactly how it should be in the manual, but indeed I think there is some confusion on how to achieve it and through which ways it can be done with Flare. So it must be even worse for someone who is trying to understand confused que...
by paintedturtle
Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:05 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: missing video element ID in HTML5 output
Replies: 1
Views: 1329

Re: missing video element ID in HTML5 output

The Text Editor has the following <object MadCap:HTML5Video="true" src="../Resources/video/Open_bugs_add_remarks_ chat.mp4" MadCap:Param_controls="true" MadCap:Param_muted="false" MadCap:Param_loop="false" MadCap:Param_autoplay="false" id=...
by paintedturtle
Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:35 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: inserting new elements quickly
Replies: 6
Views: 3220

Re: inserting new elements quickly

Sorry for the newbie questions... I'm looking for a quick way to add new elements such as div,p,h1,h2 etc in the XML Editor Obviously, I can do this manually in the text editor - In some cases (after a P and an h) doing Enter will add me a <p> and then I use the Syle window on the Home tab to chang...
by paintedturtle
Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:30 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Best practices for different print and online table styles
Replies: 1
Views: 1145

Re: Best practices for different print and online table styl

Hi all - I am struggling with the Flare instructions for using a single table style sheet to achieve different layouts for print and online tables. Can anyone share a best practice for doing this? In the past, I've used two different table style sheet CSS files, but Flare now recommends using a sin...
by paintedturtle
Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:19 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: dealing with TBDs
Replies: 6
Views: 4511

Re: dealing with TBDs

As I write things keep popping up in my mind, like the need to add a term to a glossary or to reference a "see also". In order not be distracted I want to add a TBC (to be done aka TBC) - a note to myself that I need to add something later. The nature of the TBD is 1. I want to be able to...
by paintedturtle
Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:00 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Remove download icon from video player
Replies: 4
Views: 2271

Re: Remove download icon from video player

I've noticed, much to my chagrin, that users can download workflow videos and tutorials directly from the video player. https://image.prntscr.com/image/fRvW0oVAQgW7vb6EqQ5arg.png How do I disable this for all videos in the online help? No help here, but sympathy! The download button appears for my ...
by paintedturtle
Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:34 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Spreadsheet link from Word to Flare to PDF - is it possible?
Replies: 3
Views: 1963

Re: Spreadsheet link from Word to Flare to PDF - is it possi

In Word, I have an embedded link to a spreadsheet, i.e., when clicked twice in Word, the link opens into an .xlsx spreadsheet. The Word document needs to be converted to a Flare project and published as a PDF when completed. The SME wants the user to be able to click a link to this same spreadsheet...
by paintedturtle
Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:08 am
Forum: Importing
Topic: Word List Paragraph style
Replies: 4
Views: 2577

Re: Word List Paragraph style

When I import a Word document with the List Paragraph style, the resulting indent is far too wide, but I can't see how to modify this. Possibly I've overlooked something during the import. The CSS has a 0px left margin. Anyone know how I should import this style or fix it via the stylesheet? I ofte...
by paintedturtle
Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:10 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Flare 2016 r2 too slow to use
Replies: 7
Views: 4125

Re: Flare 2016 r2 too slow to use

Is the slowness in every topic? I noticed the decrease in performance with long topics that have a lot of tables. Do you have many topics open at the same time? Does it get better when you pause AV for a while? My big headache is also long topics, which generally have tables in them, and just resta...
by paintedturtle
Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:15 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Find and Replace in Source Code - Wildcards
Replies: 5
Views: 2559

Re: Find and Replace in Source Code - Wildcards

I do have a table style applied to all tables but is there an option to set the table width to 100% within a table style? If there is, I am not aware of it or am just having a brain lapse. When I've accidentally dragged a column in a table to be pixels in width, I think it overrides the % width in ...
by paintedturtle
Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:03 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Update cross-references - how do I know which failed?
Replies: 1
Views: 1009

Re: Update cross-references - how do I know which failed?

Updating cross-references in a file, I get the error: "Failed to update 1 of the selected cross-references" However, it doesn't indicate which one - is there any way to find out? P. When my cross references to another section within a topic fail/break, they change to the title of that top...
by paintedturtle
Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:24 am
Forum: Single-Sourcing
Topic: Snippets as table rows? Well, I never...
Replies: 15
Views: 12136

Re: Snippets as table rows? Well, I never...

A problem I recall people reporting is that even if they got the snippet to resolve correctly in the table in generated output, for a reason they could not figure out, the widths of the columns of the snippet-sourced rows didn't have the same width as the columns of the "live rows" in the...
by paintedturtle
Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:51 pm
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Font changes to bold unexpectedly
Replies: 19
Views: 34491

Re: Font changes to bold unexpectedly

A similar bug has even been reported in other applications (you can find posts about this in the Adobe forums). So it is a generic issue, and the primary cause seems to be the transparency attribute. Agreed--I've seen this bug with saving MS Word files to HTML to capture the images contained within...
by paintedturtle
Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:47 pm
Forum: Single-Sourcing
Topic: Snippets as table rows? Well, I never...
Replies: 15
Views: 12136

Re: Snippets as table rows? Well, I never...

I could be very wrong but I know that others have tried it and I think the consensus is that it doesn't work, although I don't know why. I think issues crept in with widths of columns, for example. Also, I'm not sure how one could structure the code of the table and the code of the snippets, which ...
by paintedturtle
Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:05 am
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Editor tips and tricks?
Replies: 11
Views: 8638

Re: Editor tips and tricks?

At the bottom of the XML Editor there's a grey bit with three dots on. Click and drag the three dots upwards, and lo and behold, you have the text editor in the bottom part and the XML editor in the top. I use it LOADS. Yay, thank you! I and the Tech Writer who sits next to me are soooo excited by ...
by paintedturtle
Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:55 am
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Editor tips and tricks?
Replies: 11
Views: 8638

Re: Editor tips and tricks?

ChoccieMuffin wrote:I am now in the habit of splitting my screen and having the text editor open a little bit at the bottom of the screen so I can edit the code with ease.
ChoccieMuffin, can you tell us how to do that? It's genius and I'm not genius enough to figure out how to set that! Thanks!
by paintedturtle
Fri May 19, 2017 4:40 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Shortcuts for Notes, warnings, etc
Replies: 7
Views: 5792

Re: Shortcuts for Notes, warnings, etc

If they are a bit more complicated (e.g. div or table) then you can set them up as a snippet (acting as a template). Then you can insert the snippet (Ctrl + R) and right click | Convert to Text to add your text into the note or warning etc. I have my notes and warnings set up as snippets (since the...