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We didn't add multiple output directories. Our .gitignore is very simple: Analyzer/ FileSunc/ Output/ Reports/ Users/ Success is relative. Our individual repos and origin/master remote repositories work fine, but integration with Flare would make it so much easier. We don't do daily commits, only wh...

At my company we are now using Git, but at the file level. I'm finally comfortable with it, but it is not easy to implement with Flare. You have to keep track of all the files you're changing to do it right. I was going to try the PushOK CVS SCC plug-in, but it's a Russian product, and the site is s...

But I did find a solution to this Windows problem:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/htmicon.htm

Took a chance and ran the tool and it worked.

HTH.

This didn't work for me, but it's good to know someone else has seen this.

All of my .htm topic icons have been replaced by the Windows generic icon. This is true for all projects, old and new, and for all Flare versions - 4.2, 5 and 6.1. (I just installed the latter for the first time, and a new project also has this problem.) It looks like it could be a Windows XP proble...

I know you can take styles off the list that you don't use, but don't remember how.

Anybody?

I know this discussion was mostly about Word output, but I just thought I'd let you know that page=break-inside: avoid; worked for my PDF output.

Thanks!

Bee

Does the Table Editor Preview have a bug? 1. Go to Project | Add Table Style. 2. Use any template, Factory or My Templates. 3. Name the table, say "Noseparators". 3. In Table Editor, define as follows: Rows: Separator = none. Columns: Separator = none. Header: Separator = none. Footer: Sep...

I had to read the entire manual to find the answer to this one. It's the Show Page Overview icon - #7 on the bottom left of the page layout.

It's totally dimmed out when it's not active. You can look at it a zillion times before actually seeing it.

In the Printed Output manual, I see an illustration with squares of the four page types clearly visible next to an open page layout.

I cannot see those squares.

Is there something I can toggle to see them? I have several pages in each layout, but can't switch to the right, left, first, etc.

Is mirroring in page layouts is restricted to margins only? If so, why does it seem to also mirror the header frame, but display that same header in the F2 edit window as un-mirrored? I want to alternate my logo in the header frame. When I mirror the left page to a right page, the logo shifts to the...

I don't worry about IE8 because not many people are using it yet, and our early adopter customers can't expect to have webapps customized to it. [I'm taking full advantage of that wiggle room.] However, my entire company standardizes on IE7, and it frustrates me that I can't fix the skin to look as ...

I'm trying to output to PDF using page layouts. I have a PDF target (indicated as such on the Basic tab), and when I go to the Printed Output tab, the box to disable master pages is greyed out. When I compile, I get a message saying "disable master pages". I have referenced a new TOC in my...

I just installed the update, and when I went to look at my broken links I can't see much of the first column [file name], even when I scroll to the left and adjust the size of the other columns.

Is anyone else having this problem after having updated?

Unfortunately, this is a very important issue for my help system. Frutiger fonts are the "signature" corporate font for my company. They are REQUIRED for all web content. I tried everything to get the original Adobe fonts to work. I forwarded them to Ryan Cerniglia, who worked on the probl...

You're right, of course. It's not advisable to make these tiny customizations, but I needed to know everything about how it could be done - because customizing tables is essentially a balancing act. In short, you really have to know what attributes you have set as a default, and how you're going to ...

Thank you both. Now I understand not only how to read the ascii tablestyles, but also how precedence works in the topic. I've been trying to figure this out for ages. Lisa, you could write a "how it works" book! Now I want to complete the topic for others who are looking for an easy way to...

I don't understand the correspondence between the main stylesheet and the tables stylesheet. And in particular, I don't get how I can change the font in a particular table style without affecting all of the other tables in the project. I do know that if I change a table element (e.g., td) in the mai...

While doing a stack trace for an unrelated problem, one of our engineers found that our application is contacting Madcap's LiveHelp server although feedback service is not configured or used. I hear this is a known bug, but can't find any evidence of it. Just want to make sure it gets handled by pos...

We gave up on source code control from Flare. I am now submitting my Flare output (only) in the form of two zip files. The GUI team created an interface from those files to the application to maintain the CSH links. Our source code control administrator consulted with Perforce before deciding that i...

Does Flare have any white papers or similar information on integrating with Perforce, or on its performance with other source code control systems? Right now I pick up my output from Windows Explorer and scp it to my Perforce workspace before I check it in. Management would prefer a trail documentin...