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I’m trying to understand how Flare renders the output of the table of contents in a PDF. My problem is that on every manual in my project the PDF renders the list of headings in normal black text but the page numbers are rendering in pale grey. I don’t really understand how TOCs work and I get confu...

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I've found a way of doing this in the Windows command prompt but I'm wondering if there is a tool in Flare which will generate something more user friendly than a dump into a text file.

Hi I've inherited a project with a very confusing set of Targets and TOCs. The Flare folder structure doesn't really reflect the way our products are grouped. I'm the only user of Flare in the company. I need to get advice from colleagues on how to restructure the project or rename the folders into ...

Just ignore the greyed out Page Layout , as it's just remembering what you selected there previously. As you've set Break Type to None , then no page layout break is being applied to this topic, so ignore whatever is shown in the Page Layout list. In the output, this topic will be using whatever th...

I want to change the page layout from the one that is greyed out in the list. I'm talking about the page layout called 'GIS Topic Page Layout Large'. I want to change the layout to the primary page layout. I'm guessing that the one that is greyed out in the list, next to the Open File button, is the...

Hi Can anyone shed some light on this please? Screenshot 2022-11-15 160237.png The Page Layout dropdown is greyed out. I need to select a different page layout file but the only way I can get the dropdown to become active is to select a Break Type other than 'None'. I don't want to insert a break so...

OKay, I've found the Upload Attachment tab.

Hi Is there an easy way of inserting an image into a post on this forum? From what I can see from the Img tag on the forum menu it's only going to allow me to post a link to an image which, I guess, has to be on the web. Is this how people post screen shots? Do you folks upload your images to some o...

This sounds strange. You're talking about the TOC that appears on a page in your PDF output, right? Yes, it's a bit difficult to differentiate between the TOC file in the Flare and the TOC output in the PDF. The TOC that is in the PDF is the one that comes out with those first three sections out of...

I work soley with PDF output. I have a legacy manual that contains a pre-generated PDF that has been dragged into the TOC (as seen in the TOC Editor) at the bottom of all the other files in the manual/TOC. The effect is that the pre-generated PDF is embedded within the main document at the end of al...

Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. I'm revisiting this issue months later as I'm now working in a wider context in the project and I've now done the intermediate course. I'm now faced with the the issue that I'm trying to standardise a set of files that will be used in two groups of manuals (with three...

Hi, thanks for the reply. Hard page breaks are what I've been using but because I'm single sourcing the with a lot of conditional text the page breaks appear at different points for different targets. I had considered wrapping it in a div before I did my intermediate Flare training, which is where I...

I’m looking for the stylesheet code to set a heading to keep with next so that the heading doesn’t appear at the bottom of a page and instead stays with the following paragraph on the next page. I’ve found this but it doesn’t seem to work: page- page-break-after: avoid; I also found a note that it’s...

Sorry this is a bit long. For some reason a previous author where I work has set the Primary Page Layout to a folder deep within the project in a sub folder that has a very long path. I’m new to Flare, having started a year ago. In that time I’ve often had issues where a document fails to build with...

When I drag column widths in a table the width does not stick when I render to PDF. I have tried adjusting (dragging in the XML editor) the column with of a table setting it to 600px. The Text Editor confirms the first column is 600px. The second column has no width definition shown in the text edit...

Like some sort of fool I instantly installed the Flare 2021 r3 update today. We use Git here but we have never used the Git tools in Flare. We treat the files in our Git folder as standalone local files and perform git push/pull updates at the beginning and end of every day. After running the Flare ...

Hi ChoccieMuffin. I'm coming to this problem a few years after this was raised having just started with Flare. You said you have a generic page break before style and a keep with next/previous/together style. I have found an example of page break before in some of the legacy documents I'm working on...

I've just read this with some incredulity having come from the world of FrameMaker. (Sorry, I'll get me coat.) I'm a bit stunned that it's not possible to do this without having to first insert a bookmark. I'm hoping that this might have changed since this thread was created in 2015. Since the figur...

Looks like you never got a reply to this. I've just googled this problem and found your post. I have some files that align and indent the tags so that the closing tag is at the right level and enclosed tags are cascaded within them. I have other files where the code is one long block of text. I can ...

Is it possible to identify which files are used in which TOC? I've looked in the analysis tab but I can't see anything there. We have a large project with multiple manuals in the same project. Some manuals have multiple versions using single sourcing. The files are mostly divided into folders for ea...

Somehow I have managed to switch off the display Variable Names toggle and I'm unable to switch it back on again. I've not long ago completed the Flare Beginners course and I was pleased to discover the Toggle show tags button. In the process of experimenting with it I've managed to switch off the v...

Some weeks after I posted this question it's become clear to me why I was confused. Yes I was only looking at the first part of the list, so no it wasn't obvious but I'm still getting used to the interface. :shock: I was further confused when you suggested that variables can be assigned multiple val...

Hi. I'm working on a large project with multiple documents featuring a joyful plethora of conditional content, variables and all manner of delights. My colleague is away this week so there's nobody to ask. I'm trying to identify the values attributed to a set of variables in a couple of content file...

Hi, this is my first post having started using Flare in April. I have a document containing a snippet that I need to edit. Unfortunately my colleague is on holiday and I don't know which documents that snippet is used in. The edit I need to make (a new warning) would be specific to one product. Is t...