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We're using a two column table in our headers. One is left aligned and the other is right aligned. When building print documents, the table columns widths in the header are being resized (see the attached image). PDF output looks fine.

Has anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions or ...

Yes Lisa is correct.

It's too bad Flare doesn't allow more more control over what's in your TOCs. Looks like I'll be adding a bunch of cross references.

Thanks everyone for your input!

I'm trying to create a customized mini-TOC that includes a list of specific topics. I do not want these topics to appear in the main TOC. Does anyone know of a way to exclude topics from the main TOC, but still include them in a mini-TOC?

I like how with the mini-TOC you can define the TOC depth ...

Actually I just heard from MadCap the other day regarding this issue. Unfortunately it doesn't look like there will be a fix before the next release (so much for an April fix). Here's what Tech Support wrote me:

"Our developers are working on a fix for this issue to be included in the Flare v6.1 ...

What a terrible request! I also talked to MadCap and I was told that it was a bug in version 6 and that a patch should be out before the end of April correcting this error. In the meantime I'm sticking with version 5 until this has been corrected.

I just upgraded to Flare 6 and I noticed that when I compile my Help, all of my relationship table links appear using each topic's filename instead of the topic title. In Flare 5 I never had this issue. Has anyone else encountered this?

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I'm also having the same problem building chm files from the command line.

In Flare I can currently add a PDF (located on our company Web site) as a link in my relationship table by modifying the link in the properties dialog box. Now this is what I want to do, but Flare does not allow me to edit the name of the link that appears in the built Help. The name that Flare uses ...

Hi DoCo, did you ever figure out how to link the browse sequence to a topic? How about changing the icon for the browse sequence entry?

On a side note, I like how in WebHelp a new tab is created for the browse sequence. Too bad you can't do this for HTML Help.

Problem solved. Turns out I had a bad browse sequence file.

I am currently able to build a project using Web Help, but when I try to build an HTML Help target using the same source files I get this error message:

Internal error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Does anyone have an idea what's causing this?

I made some changes to some of the images in my global project using SnagIt this morning. I saved a .snag file, and then saved it as a .png. At sometime during this process, both Flare and SnagIt stopped responding, and I had to reboot my machine. Subsequently, I've been unable to import the global ...

Good idea. I've submitted a bug/enhancement request.

Exactly. We've got several different WebHelp targets with each one having a different skin.

Thanks Bob. That's a great work around, but I can't see this working for us as we rebuild our Help nightly. Using this work around would involve editing the JavaScript everyday.

It sure would be nice to be able to modify the TOC Entry Hover Color and Selected Topic Color from within the skin editor.

Where or how can I modify the TOC link entries for WebHelp? I can change the font colour, but I'm not able to change the properties for when a link is active, hover, etc.

Where or how can I modify the TOC link entries for WebHelp? I can change the font colour, but I'm not able to change the properties for when a link is active, hover, etc.

Oh I would also like to know if and how this can be done.

Whenever I apply a bold or italics style to text within a TD, the line height gets thrown off. Almost double! What's going on here? Any suggestions?

Ack! You're absolutely right! I forgot all about that. Thank you

I’m creating a series of guides using one Flare project. Just to give you a size of the project, there will be a total of 42 guides being created out of this project. Now the way I want my page headers setup is to have the title of the guide in the header on all even pages.

Initially I had ...

Back to curly quotes...

You can also use ALT + 0147 to enter an open curly quote and ALT + 0148 to enter a closed curly quote. And let's not forget apostrophes: ALT + 0146

Wow it worked! Thanks Lisa. Pretty neat feature, when you know about it. Although it does seem kinda odd for this check box to be selected by default.

Hello, I'm having a problem where my H3 styles become H2s and my H4s become H3s when I generate a PDF. Does anyone know how to correct this issue?

Thanks,
Brad

I'm setting my stylesheet at the project level. I've also tried setting it at both the project level and at the topic level, but that didn't seem to make a difference.