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I don't have Flare open at the moment and it's been awhile since I've done this, so I'm not positive it hasn't changed in v2012... The variables list is your "master" list of variables, but you can overwrite those values at the target level. So instead of going into the variable set, you c...

You have to "float" the image. See if this topic helps: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ge%20float

Condition a topic in the TOC excludes the topic from appearing in the generated Table of Contents, but the topic is still within the output, so you can search for it. Condition a topic in the Topic Properties screen will exclude it from appearing in the generated TOC and the generated content, so yo...

Someone posted in a different thread that they were having problems with SVG files, then discovered it worked if they used SVG 1.0 files. I don't remember the discussion -- if it was related to errors or not being able to build or something else. Unfortunately I've been catching up with reading a lo...

Do you mean when viewing it in the editor, or after generating the output? I think I did run into something similar when I changed the text in an H1 but the TOC in the editor didn't reflect the change. Then I noticed a little refresh button in the corner of the TOC editor. After pressing that, I saw...

You more than likely modified a "base" tag in the stylesheet used by your topics. For instance, if you changed the bottom margin or line height or some other attribute on the base <div> tag, or a <p> tag, or the <body> tag, or the <a> or <li> tags, etc., then that change will filter down t...

I can confirm that you can use SharePoint to store your source files, but it's not as good as it could be. I'm not sure why you got an error, so that one you'd have to take to MadCap Support. If you're using SharePoint 2013, then double-check that you're using the "clean" URL -- SP will th...

I don't recall it ever being bundled in the Flare app. Instead, when a new version of Flare came out, if you had a maintenance plan, then you also got a license key for Capture. It was a separate app download, too. I'm not sure if it's free anymore or not. Their website mentions a free trial for Cap...

What pages do you have in your page layout? If you just have a Title page, then add an Empty page. Then in the TOC entry for the title page, set it to auto-end on left. That will force it to insert an empty page. Alternatively, if the page layout for your topics includes left, right, first left, and...

Don't know if this is still an issue, but it used to be that if you had enabled the option to create a copy of any resized images then that copy was either in a different file format and/or lost transparency information. (If it saved as JPG it would definitely lose transparency info.) I never used t...

I don't think it will show up in preview because the preview doesn't know yet how many pages your output is going to be so it can't resolve the page number. If you generate the print output then does it show up?

Create a new masterpage layout, or copy the original masterpage with the side bar, then open that masterpage in the Internal Text Editor and delete the <div class="sideContent"> block. I did the same thing for the very same reason -- I didn't want the side block on the "title" pa...

You need to use mediums in your stylesheet to differentiate how the style appears in online (web) output versus print output. If you have your Stylesheet Editor set to the Advanced view, then in the middle top area of the stylesheet GUI you'll see a drop-down that says Medium: (default) . If you mak...

You can adjust the margin values for the <pre> tag in the stylesheet editor, same as any other tag. BTW, that 8 character length might be browser-dependent, so if your users might use any browser, then you might want to test your output in multiple browsers to make sure you didn't move it too far. F...

You can't add multiple class names to a tag using the interface... Which is rather ironic, considering how much Flare is doing that now in their own styles in the output. Darned annoying that we can't do it. Of course, we still can't create generic classes via the stylesheet editor either and we've...

I tried th:first-child and th:last-child, but apparently last-child still isn't supported by most browsers. Which I don't get, since it's supposed to be in CSS3 and I thought modern browsers were up to CSS3 support, but maybe not. I didn't play with it that extensively, though, so perhaps something ...

Actually, the following works without leaving an empty class. Tested it both with a next tag of <h2> and a next tag of <p>. h1 { mc-next-tag: h2; } Nope, sorry. Turns out it doesn't work going from a paragraph with a class to a plain paragraph. The following paragraph inherited the previous paragra...

Actually, the following works without leaving an empty class. Tested it both with a next tag of <h2> and a next tag of <p>.

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h1 {
     mc-next-tag: h2;
}

Paul, have you ever used the auto-index feature? I never have, so I'm curious if you have, because I'm wondering if it saves the index terms in the topics in the development environment, too, or if it only adds them to the topics at build time? If it's the latter, then I don't think your solution wo...

When you build the output using the out-of-the-box styles for popup text, it resolves to the following: <p><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="MCTextPopup popup popupHead">Click Me!<span class="MCTextPopupBody MCTextPopupBody_Closed needs-pie popupBody"><span class=&qu...

The benefit of the variable option, though, is that you can change the name in the output, so if you do multiple languages and different people support for different countries, then you can supply a different name in the variable in the target for each language. So Network Support for the U.S. might...

You can't have multiple empty pages in a page layout. Well, apparently you can have multiple empty pages in the page layout, but that's not how it works in the results, because empty pages only work at the end of a "chapter", not the middle of a chapter, so you'd only need one empty page i...

I inspected the elements, and lo and behold, each of these numbered paragraphs is actually a table in the running output. Yes, as MattyQ said, the WYSIWYG editor is only giving you an approximation of the final appearance, but it won't be entirely accurate, because 1) Flare has stylesheets that it ...

Does it happen with every heading or just some? If it's just some, then it's possible that there's a non-breaking space in the page-behind code (e.g., Hello World). When it comes across that non-breaking space, it treats that entire text as one word, and if there's not enough space to display Hello ...

I got a bit lost when it starts saying "Pseudo Classes." I mean, I can see how you could change the color or look of the active, focus, hover, link, and visited sub-classes... It's just that when I pull the drop-down from the Hyperlink button, I don't see any of these sub-classes beneath ...

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