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Been many years and many versions of Flare since I first posted to this forum regarding this issue. I am now using Flare version 11, which you can use for html5 output. I now see support for the use of div tags in the XML editor (showing blocks on the left side to indicate divs). However, unless I a...

I had this same problem along with another coworker. We have spent days trying to resolve the issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled Microsoft Office several times, ran repair on all tools, etc., and then installed Flare Version 10 (hoping the new version of Flare might resolve the issue). All to no a...

Does anyone know how to indicate a "swiping" motion for topic files so that when content is viewed on a cell phone or tablet, users can use their finger to swipe-left or swipe-right to display topics in a specified order? We assume that some sort of browse sequence needs to be defined some...

Just an update on this posting for anyone who may be encountering this same issue... As a workaround, I created an image style class named img.maxwidth100% and associated the image to that class so that the size of the image adjusted appropriately to the window in which it was being displayed. I als...

Hi, I am using Flare 8.1 and generating WebHelp Mobile output. Everything looks fine when viewing the output using the ipad. As you turn the device in your hand to go from Portrait to Landscape mode, the content adjusts accordingly. However, when using the iphone 4 and 5 with ios 6.1.2, we see issue...

We will be creating Help for applications that will run on mobile devices such as the larger ipad and the smaller iphone. I am wondering whether anyone has recommendations for the font sizing specifications to use in our css file to accomodate the two different screen display sizes.

Yah, I couldn't get images in the page layout header frames to come across into Word output either.

No. It still doesn't work. No matter what I try.

I am creating WebHelp using Flare 7.2. In the top-level topic inside the Contents folder that serves as the starting page for my project (index.htm), I have an icon in the top-right corner of this topic that you can click to display a popup window containing another topic. I want the popup window to...

I am creating a header frame on a page layout that I want to have expand the width of the printed page (ignoring the typical left and right margins you have on a printed page) so that the frame with extends the full 8.5 inches of the page. I want the frame to have a solid background color. In Flare,...

We are having issues similar to this (using Mimic Version 5 on Windows 7) when capturing video. The video output appears choppy. It seems to speed up and slow down even though transition times for individual frames were not set by anyone. (No effects have been set for frames and the transition time ...

Thanks Laura,

I already submitted a feature request. As an FYI to anyone else who is dealing with this issue...

I now have Flare 7.2 and this printed output functionality deficiency still exists in this latest version of the product.

I am using Madcap Flare 7.1 and am facing the same issue discussed in this thread. It seems as though a lot of time has passed by since this posting was originally made, so I am hoping that Madcap has addressed the issue already and that I just haven't been able to figure it out. I have four separat...

Are there known issues using variables in Madcap Mimic 5.0? I cannot find anything posted on the Flare knowledgebase or the forums, but I am having a ton of trouble trying to use variables in Mimic. I can add variables to the variables list on the Properties page (for both projects and single movies...

Yes. There are many of us out here who would greatly appreciate this feature. Yes. We have been making enhancement requests regarding this since version 1.0 of Flare to no avail. You get tired of repeatedly asking when no one seems to want to hear. If you have not been seeing this request in great n...

Heard back from Flare Tech Support. Apparently, they are aware of this bug.

Thanks everyone for your help.

That fixed it! Thank you. Didn't realize this "Generate resized copies of scaled images" option on the Advanced tab of the Target Editor was even checked, but there was no issue with the project having this option checked in Flare 6. The definition for this option according to Flare's Help...

Hi, I am generating WebHelp and HTMLHelp. I experience the problem in both formats. I am not looking at PDFs or Word output. (Flare says that divs are not supported in Word.) I looked at the output file as you suggested and something really weird that I don't understand seems to happen to the code. ...

Thanks for the info about the style name changes. I wasn't aware of that. The version 7 style name changes for madcap divs aren't part of the problem though. The div I am using is a simple div style defined in our css. It is not a built-in Madcap div style. I've continued testing and it appears as t...

In Flare 6 I was able to insert a reference to images inside a div tag such that the width of the image was based on a percent of the div width and the image height was set to automatic ( <img src="myimage.jpg" style="width: 80%;height: auto;"/>). This code worked just fine in Fl...

I submitted an enhancement request.

Hopefully, we'll see see support for HTML 5 styles in the next version of Flare.

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks. You're correct. Unfortunately, they don't render correctly in the XML editor. I tried opening an html file that I had authored in Notepad in a Flare 6.1 project. Flare opened the file without issue, but none of the HTML 5 styles appeared correctly in the editor or the generated output. The s...

Does Madcap Flare Version 6.1 support the new HTML 5 styles, such as header, article, aside, nav, hgroup...?
Browsers are now supporting them.

Just wanted to say thank you for this posting. I am using Flare version 6.1 and encoutered the same issue described here. Setting the box property setting described in Flare's Help does not resolve the issue. Tried everything I could think of (including what others here tried) to no avail. Searched ...

Thank goodness its Friday. I'm all set . The chapter title numbers are working and the TOC in the printed output now looks great.

Thanks to everyone who helped. You're all great!