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The Mad Quality plug-in does the job, not out of the box but with some custom rules. Matthias Sander was quite helpful
Highly recommendable for the price

Hi Rae, thanks for the tip, i`ll check this plugin

Hi, I`m using Flare to write technical documentation and currently manage our company terminology in an excel sheet. Can you recommend tools/plugins to check terminology in Flare? A blog article on the MadCap website suggested termXact, but this is only available starting from 10 users.. any recomme...

Nobody here who has the same issue?

this wbr element would require to define the breaks for every word again.
There already are German hyphenation rules in flare, but flare handles them the wrong way, and hyphenates words at the first possible point, not at the last possible point.

Alyready tried this.. it maybe works in English, but with long German words this leads to really ugly line breaks

I`m reviving this old thread hoping that anyone found a solution to this problem. This is really annoying and makes a lot of unnecessary extra work

Hello Marc,
same problem here. Did you find any solution to this problem?
Kind Regards
Tobias

Hi together, I`m writing machinery documentations with lots of 3rd party PDFs to be attached. Until now I included them all into one big PDF when building my PDF target. It would be easier to just link those 3rd party pdfs in my central operation manual PDF. When I copy the 3rd party PDFs into my pr...

Hi Trent, thanks for your reply, I`ll try the tools you mentioned

Hi, I`m using Flare for PDF exclusively and have a problem with the PDF files that flare creates. When trying to compare two PDF files, Acrobat stops with an error message that would translate to somewhat like "array was expected". This only happes with PDF files created by flare and not w...

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your thoughts. I was able to solve the problems by adding values for "margin left" and "margin right" in the body tag. Had to fiddle around with arbitrary values, but I got things aligned with 4px each

Cheers
Tobias

Hi Rob,
thanks for your thoughts. Unfortunately I got sick, but I will check these points as soon as I`m back in the office
Kind Regards
Tobias

Hi, I have a problem and hope that someone could help me with this. I modified a default page layout to create my own layout. But I can`t get the content of the header/footer and body frame aligned. The margins are the same for the frame and the styles used. There are no borders or paddings defined....

Hi Nita,
Thanks for your reply, yes I`m using autonumbering for my h1 to h4 headings. Your explanation sounds plausible.

Hi,

is there a way to display chapter numbers in the TOC editor? (I mean the editor in the attached picture)
This would help greatly for creating print outputs

Kind Regards
Tobias

Hello, in my documentation project I have to add some third party pdfs to my operation manual. I included them in the TOC, which works fine. Unfortunately it doesn`t seem to be possible to add a cross reference to a pdf file which is included in my project and TOC. Is there a way I can create a dyna...

Many Thanks! This was the function I was looking for

Hello,

when I created a callout with Capture, is it possible to change the underlying image? I tried to just swap the image file (same file name, same image size), but then the callout seems to be broken

Kind regards
Tobias

Hi, I use Capture to create callout graphics. Every time I copy an object, e.g. an arrow and then right click --> paste at the desired location, the object is pasted randomly somewhere else in the image. This behaviour drives me mad. Is there a way to paste an object at a desired location? Kind Rega...

Thanks for your replies. I forgot to mention that we solely use PDF output
So there is no right or wrong whether I put my condition tags on the topic files or on the TOC entries

Hi together, I`m using condition tags to filter topics e.g. for internal/external content. It is possible to assign condition tags on individual topics in the content explorer, but it is also possible to assign condition tags to topics in the TOC. There won`t be a one-size-fits all solution, but I w...

Hi, I`m using Flare and Capture for technical documentation and have the following issue: (I`m only using PDF output) When using callout images, I use three different image size styles in flare: full page width, half page width, third page width. When I create a palette with callout objects and use ...

Hi, i`m new to git and have the following problem: Currently I`m writing the operation manual for a specific machine type. For each unit of the machine we sell, I will have to modify the manual slightly (some variables, some paragraphs). I thought about making a branch for each unit. Our automation ...

Hi, I`m a technical author for a machinery startup. Currently I`m creating the operation manual for our first machine. I switched from saving the projects local to using git recently. Soon I will have to create operation manuals for other machines based on the first manual. Originally I intended to ...