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If anyone is currently chasing this, I needed to use this in Flare 7.1 to get a square bullet:

If anyone is currently chasing this, I needed to use this in Flare 7.1 to get a square bullet:

And we're back -- if the div.BoxColor doesn't work for you (it did in some cases, not in others), try a p.BoxColor; in some cases needed to set the frame as a header/footer instead of decoration. Not really consistent under the covers, but seems to be working now.

Toning down the happy dance a bit... Tried putting a graphic over the colored frame and it looks fine in the page layout view, but when generating the PDF the colored bit always appears on top of everything even if it's sunk to the very bottom layer of the layout. There's something funky going on th...

aha! While neatening up the page layout code I noticed something I hadn't before (sleep does that, perhaps). Instead of trying to modify the 'Frame' element to pick up a style, I modified the 'Content' element -- within Content is essentially a mini-html page with "xhtml:" preceding each h...

Ah, I just made the connection (had a similar situation doing DocBook stylesheets) -- If a given writing style dictates that a ChapterTitle is always followed by a paragraph and not a heading, then bumping an [online] H1 to a [print] chapter heading makes more sense. The acrobatics mentioned above w...

If you like using a FrameMaker-esque scheme, you can do something like the following: replacing ordered lists with something like p.Numbered { mc-auto-number-position: outside-head; margin-left: 30px; mc-auto-number-offset: 20px; mc-auto-number-format: 'N:{n+}. '; } (another style can set n=1) repla...

Okay, this may be an incredibly basic question, but I'm building a new project up from scratch and I'm trying to start fresh and do away with various templates/hacks I've used over past few years. A typical FrameMaker chapter file includes tags similar to: ChapterTitle, Heading1, Heading2, Heading3....

I don't believe it's a <Frame> tag in the HTML sense (I tried that too ); the .flpgl file looks to be straight XML and I'm not yet sure how it's being processed.

Yes, trying to color the frame, as you say -- but if possible I'd like to have only one set of page layouts to cover all of the products, and pull in the theme color from somewhere (as with the heading colors and such via linked stylesheets, which works beautifully). There are currently five page la...

Woo! Thank you, Lisa/Nita -- excellent result with a product-specific stylesheet linking to a master stylesheet. That just leaves the color elements in the page layouts; the .flpgl file looks like this (stripped down for simplicity): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PageSt...

Hi — I’m working on documentation for a set of products, each of which has a different "theme" color. That theme color is used to color areas of the page layouts, to set the color of headings and table heads, etc. The straightforward but clunky method would be maintaining multiple sets...

I'm thinking of testing this at a client site, and the multiple topic reviews is certainly an issue (I'd be sending whole projects or branches of projects, and need the snippets and such included)... I'd guess this might be a hot feature in v2...coming anytime soon?

Now that Windows 7 is officially released, is there an "official" stance regarding MadCap app support?

FYI, this is the insight from Tech Support: Capture reads all its Image information from the props file (boxes, call outs, text, variables, conditions, crop information etc) then generates the image. Flare reads/displays the Image and only reads the props file for variables and conditions. I do agre...

I've started using Capture to set online/print resolutions for my images, which were not taken w/Capture. What I'm discovering (too late) is that if I update image files in Photoshop, Capture "remembers" what the image looked like previously and still displays/prints the old version of the...

Thanks! Still tweaking, but on the whole it works beautifully!

my bad; TOC levels were bumping an h2.permissioned to an h3 where that subclass didn't exist; immediate fix would be to create an h3.permissioned that will take effect when bumped... ...which brings me to generic classes; I can manually go into the stylesheet and create .permissioned to (in theory) ...

I'm having this problem in PDF output now; not with images, but with a class of h1 -- page-break-before is set to always for print medium, but headings are still starting midway on the page.

BTW, the answer is apparently no -- I put in an enhancement request

I'm looking at the .props file that capture saves with the images, and noticed that it does include the text placed in callouts. Now when using one of those images in Flare, is there a way to have Flare's search find text from those image callouts (bringing you to the topic containing that image) si...

gwadmin wrote:WHP supposedly has the ability to index PDF files that are part of the project -- so, when a user clicks on a search result, do they jump directly to page nnn of the PDF, or just to the first page?

Hmmm. WHP not so popular perhaps... can anyone from MadCap answer this particular point?

This is possibly a silly question, but I don't see it directly addressed anywhere and I can't easily test it as I don't immediately have access to an IIS setup: WHP supposedly has the ability to index PDF files that are part of the project -- so, when a user clicks on a search result, do they jump d...

BTW -- while there are changes I'd like to see, AutoBookmark from http://www.evermap.com has been working pretty well....zaps and recreates the bookmarks in about a second.

Just came looking for an answer to this issue...after talking up the fact that I could now produce PDF files directly from Flare, which would save time (and client $$) over going through Frame and postprocessing...that is, after I spent a bunch of time rebuilding fresh stylesheets for creating print...