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Good news, I do believe that I've found it. Custom buttons are sensitive to having spaces in their names (like a lot of XHTML and/or CSS content) so I removed the custom button labled "Download as PDF" and added a new custom button labled "DownloadAsPdf" and all now seems to be w...

Hi Riley, It looks like you are doing all of the proper steps. As an attempt to help at least replicate the situation, is there any chance you could send me a copy of the graphic that you are using? Then I can try and create a custom button using the same components on a different machine. That shou...

Lisa is spot on. What you are seeing in the Flare interface is the Dynamic Help options available from the DotNetHelp SDK (in the downloads section of our web site). If you wanted similer functionality in your application using WebHelp it could be done. The steps would be: 1. Set up the context sens...

Hi Nancy, A lot of work was done specifically on DotNet Help in the V6 release. DotNet Help has not been neglected at all. There weren’t many changes in the V5 time frame, but there were major updates in V4 and now major changes in V6. I’m not sure that warrants the comment that it has been “n...

Due to user request we are opening a new discussion area specifically for single-sourcing. Share your successes, horror stories, favorite tips and techniques.

The people have spoken and MadCap has listened! :0) The plan right now is to alter the DotNet Help viewer to make it more in line with the requests we have received. One of the biggest problems is the timing. All of our dev resources are turning and burning to get Flare version 4 out so this solutio...

It is going to be tough to miss us at the STC show in Philly, we are doing the full 20 foot by 20 foot booth this year right at the entrance. We won't be officially showing Flare 4, but if someone were to happen to catch me between sessions who knows what might be up and running on my laptop. :) As ...