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What do others put on a cover page of a Madcap Flare pdf?

Is it possible to do this, so that fonts which are not installed on the user's machine display correctly in PDF output?

I need to publish an HTML project on Confluence but the owner of our corporate confluence documentation publishing platform says that I cannot upload html pages, create directories and so on. So the only way that I can think of doing it is to recreate the pages individually as Confluence pages. An I...

Yesterday I tried insert a mailto link with a subject and body tag; it was rejected by the Flare syntax editor. This was what I was trying to get past the syntax checker: mailto:customerservice@madcapsoftware.com?Subject=Support%20Request&body=My%20Support%20Key The error was: '=' Is an unexpect...

I want to link to my own posts, or a colleagues posts, but the link is local: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/search.php?search_id=egosearch So obviously not portable. I also I can't see myself in the members list. The jump link to the letter of the alphabet is broken. I don't remember when I join...

I've got several projects with their own style sheets and I want to link them all to a single global project so the one I update the global stylesheet these changes will cascade through into the projects. What is the best way to go about this?

I'm setting up a Flare doc for use as a template and my manager suggests we choose 10 pt as the default font size but in Flare this is set in em units by default, and this setting is inherited from somewhere, from where I am not sure. What are members thoughts on setting font-size in the body, to po...

How can I make the Glossary appear at the top of the document in PDF output? It appears at the end by default.

Thank you Nita this is very helpful.

Hi everyone, I'm using CSS to automatically number my images (see below) but some of the images have links wrapped around them, so actually I want the Figure + number inserted after the link, in those cases, is there any way to do this? body { counter-reset: figure; /* set a counter called figure to...

Hi CDschroeder, I installed prism and it worked perfectly, or at least I thought it did...I can see it working in HTML preview mode, but when I output, the effect is lost...any ideas? Hmm, that's odd. You are generating HTML5 (top nav/tripane/side nav) output, correct? (not to be confused with HTML...

I'm trying to set up a company template for technical documentation, it has to be easy to use. I want this to be easy to use for other writers who are not very familiar with Flare. What is the best way to do this - should I create a new project, and then import the template? This copies all the Cont...

What type of output are you generating? I use prism.js for HTML5 output and it works beautifully. It just doesn't work for printed output (but neither will any other JS solution). Hi CDschroeder, I installed prism and it worked perfectly, or at least I thought it did...I can see it working in HTML ...

What works for me is this: 1. Create a new paragraph and assign the <pre> style to it. That means it will preserve the formatting as set, including any spaces and line breaks. 2. Copy and paste the code into that <pre> block. Flare will insert the code as a bunch of <p>'s. 3. Immediately look for t...

I am using the analyser to remove duplicate styles, but it is painstaking because there are many instances of the same style in a stylesheet and no way to tell which one is duplicated. Is there any way to speed up this process?

When I paste text, in this case code, the indenting gets lost. I get round this by editing the topic file in Sublime text.
Is there a setting which forces Flare to keep the original formatting?

I have a company branded table, with styles for the <table>, <th>, <td> <tr> tags. Do I have to add these styles one by one for each element in the table? How can I add the styles quickly, the way that the Madcap Flare inbuilt table styles can be added?

Hi all,
I've generated a report showing hundreds of unused images and topics, but I can't see any quick way to delete them, any ideas?

If you really do want line feeds rather than new paragraphs, I suspect you're going to have to do a search-and-replace exercise. What are you copying the text from in the first place? If THAT has paragraphs rather than line feeds, then Flare is just doing what you told it to do. Well, for example, ...

When I paste text to the XML editor it automatically inserts paragraphs after each line, how can I make it put line breaks instead i.e. <br />

Is there a quick way to identify ( and ideally to remove ) images files which are not being used in a project?

Is there any way to simply copy HTML source into the XML editor? This morning I wanted to add content to topics from emails in Outlook but when pasting the text all the HTML formatting ( such as hyperlinks ) is lost. To get around this I had to past into Word, save as HTML, open in a browser, copy t...

I'm looking for a plug in which can switch my Flare projects to a black theme, but the chrome extensions I have tried do not work. Has anyone successfully used any browser extensions to get a black theme working in the browser ?

I want to avoid using screenshots of code blocks. What is the best approach for automatic syntax highlighting in Flare topics? There are a number of libraries available but not sure which is best to use with Flare. Any experience with this gratefully received!

Are there any keyboard shortcuts or buttons on the Flare UI for inserting these headings?