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Is it possible to rename a movie (a <file_name>.wmv file)? I see that there is a .png file that goes with it, so I tried naming the movie and the png with the same name, but there doesn't seem to be any way to tell Mimic about it.

I would like to be able to do this because I'm combining some short ...

Thanks, Ramon. This seems to be my best option right now. When I have more time, I'll see if I can trouble should the database conflict.
Mardi

Ramon,

Thanks for the suggestions.

In order to install Mimic on the server, do I have to uninstall it from my local drive?

Thanks,
Mardi

I am trying to create a movie of a piece of software that is running on another server. I cannot install this software on my local drive because it uses the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database that doesn't play nice with the database that Flare uses.

I am using Remote Desktop to connect to the ...

Well, that's pretty straightforward. I must have done it; maybe as requested by a MadCap technical support person.

Thank you,
Mardi

I have discovered some files under <project>/Project/Users/<user>/backups/ called <file_name>.htm.##########.htm ; example: Accumulator Operations.htm.1155443035.htm. I opened one to verify that they are copies of topic files.

Does anyone know why Flare creates them? I don't see them in most of my ...

Thank you for getting back to me on this. I did read about the two kinds of headers. According to Flare documentation, Running Head variables can be used for Word and Framemaker only. Since my output is a PDF, this kind of variable won't help me.

Mardi

I have a chapter which consists of the following:

an introductory section in portrait mode
a chart in landscape mode
the rest of the chapter in portrait mode
The introductory section begins with a Heading 1 and includes a second-level heading. All of the charts begin with a third-level heading ...

Thanks for the tip, Paul.

Mardi

Yes, I agree with you, Nita; it's only half there. We'll have to continue using band-aids. I'm really disappointed.

I also will submit a request for an enhancement.

Thanks,
Mardi

Has anyone tried track changes and sending topics for review in Flare V 7? I activated track changes, made some changes and saved the document. Then I selected Review , Send for Review and received the error message "The following document could not be added because it contains unresolved changes ...

Thank you, Lisa. I should have thought of that; I had to create a generic class for another problem.

Mardi

I have a project where some of the second-level headings (for functions) must have a page break before in printed output. The PDF target is set up to use to use TOC depth for heading levels and the topics all use <h1> for their titles, including the function topics.

I want to set up a class to ...

Thank you very much for your help.

Mardi

Thank you, Lisa. This is very helpful.

I also had style classes such as p_1, p_2, span_1, etc. that gave me the same message. I believe that they were created when I imported a Word documents into the project. Each one had a stylesheet, which I ultimately deleted. Would I get the message because ...

Thank you, Lisa. You're right; I was in the print medium.

But I have a question on your last comment. You say that the stylesheet is more like a reference guide, and a given style is not necessarily in the file. If it isn't in the file, where is it?

Thanks,
Mardi

I have some unused styles in my stylesheet that I'd like to get rid of. When I try to delete them, I receive the message "The style <style_name> cannot be removed because it is inherited and not defined in this stylesheet."

I read the posts in this forum and learned that I could hide them, so I did ...

That's it! Thank you so much!

Mardi

I am trying to change the margin-left attribute to zero for H1 and H2, .25in for H3 and H4 and .5in for H5 and H6. When I modify the value for one of the heading tags, all the other automatically change to that value. What did I forget to do?

Thanks,
Mardi

Thank you; the thread is helpful.

Mardi

I am trying to format an index so that it has two columns, but when I do, the title (H1) is in a column as well; it should straddle both columns. I double-clicked the Index proxy on the index page and selected 2 columns. I created a separate page layout with two columns.

I tried putting the title ...

Thank you, Lisa; that did the trick!

At first it didn't seem to work, but I realized that the offending line was on the second level, so I changed that class also.

Mardi

My project uses a two-column index, and one item is too long to fit in the column:
Does anyone know if there is something that I can do about this in Flare?

Thanks,
Mardi

I already have a space and a non-breaking space before the second line, as I said in my first post.

Thanks for the idea... but since the chapter heading is right-aligned, if I put a space before the before the break (the first and second lines of the chapter heading are separated by a break rather than a hard return), "Chapter" and the number would no longer be aligned properly, so that is not an ...