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Hi Matze,

You might want to ask GPT or Phind.com (my preferred helper) for coding assistance. Either AI may not provide code that works on the first attempt, but I've had excellent results with CSS/JS coding from both. Phind is much more current, too.

Hi Elin, You're getting confused by improper terminology. To put this in more common industry terms, The files in Flare that you're editing are Source files. When you publish PDFs, those are output files. There is no push or pull or export involved in publishing output from Flare (i.e., your PDFs). ...

Hey, thanks Alex! I'd not seen those before that I can remember. Those are some great apps.

If you're comfortable using GIMP, installing the BIMP batch plugin and compressing them in GIMP is an option. I had great success inverting screen colors of about 200 white on black terminal screen shots to make them more readable and to not eat so much toner. https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projec...

If you're comfortable using GIMP, installing the BIMP batch plugin and compressing them in GIMP is an option. I had great success inverting screen colors of about 200 white on black terminal screen shots to make them more readable and to not eat so much toner. https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projec...

I'm guessing that you have separate p and ol/li elements defined. These will give you better control: /* affects all paragraph tags inside an li tag START */ ol > li p, ul > li p { line-height: 13pt; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0 0 3pt 12pt; } /* affects all paragraph tags inside an li tag END */ I als...

Hi Nina,

If that's in the editor, ignore it. The output is true check of that alignment.

Consider using a variable to hold the years. Then you can update them in one spot to please PMO whenever they decide they need something different.

I think this might be a discussion to start have your MC sales rep and MC support. They'd have a better idea of what's possible than most users.

Ah, now I understand. I'm unaware of such a feature, but that sounds very useful. Anything that helps make the output better is a good thing :D As a manual process, it would depend on the project structure (concepts/relationships/snippets/microcontent) and benefit by adding scripting. With all the f...

Great! Hopefully we'll have JSON syntax highlighting in 2024. Being able to easily add local overrides for styling to match corporate standards and the ability to add local keywords would be make it immensely more useful, but at this point I'd settle for real syntax highlighting. Screen capping code...

Hi Henk, I believe for the most part, Flare authors needing translation are using MadCap Lingo. It lets you make your primary language updates and then you export out all the text into Lingo where someone would handle the translations. Then you bring the lingo output back into Flare. That's a very, ...

It might be time to move onto 23r3...

I think you're the guilty party this time ;-) But it could be your mouse, too. If that button's switch is getting flaky you might not notice it if you're only clicking around, but an operation needing constant button-down will notice. I'd start with another mouse. I'm able to shift tabs in the GUI w...

Sorry, there is no API with useful Central calls.

Hi Tobias, Placement anywhere in the project is possible. The issue is how PDFs get published from Flare. Pre-generated PDFs aren't really part of a project, so Flare can only copy them to a new location. When you publish PDF output, Flare sends your published PDF file to the Destination along with ...

Hi Paul, I have no specific package for that purpose. I'm using GIMP to do everything except organize images. If you know exactly what you want to do to the images, make it a macro in GIMP and then you can use the BIMP plugin to perform batch macro operations on full directories. I've used BIMP for ...

You and me both :-) I think everyone would auto-updating callout numbers, but that's not something that Flare can manage. I honestly don't think any help apps can do it, either. Not even the non-help apps like FrameMaker can do that without setting up an autonumbering paragraph just for callout poin...

Hi Harben, Flare's SR function is standard. The main differences are the options to look in only code, snippets, topics, etc. Global SR actions need a great deal of care. You'll need to get in the habit of checking the "found" list before applying the changes. I doubt if MC would add a fun...

Hi Troy, Get the Kaizen plugin from https://www.improvementsoft.com/Content/B_Products/0_Products.htm. Kaizen is an invaluable tool for cleaning flare import projects. It's free, too. It does local or global change changes such as removing/swapping a paragraph format or class, removing styling, spli...

Hi Melodie,

Sorry, but no. Flare's output is immutable after generation. I imagine you could add JavaScript to apply a condition to the TOC item when a user opens the help as a one-off, but I doubt that it would be a long-term solution because of the overhead it requires.

Flare uses the AvalonEdit package for syntax highlighting. But MadCap has not has not included the JSON syntax file in their builds: https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvalonEdit/blob/master/ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit/Highlighting/Resources/Json.xshd The file's been in Avalon's Repo for over two years. Why ...

Hi Mareike, Welcome to Flare ;-) Flare's CSS has a caption element that it applies to tables from the Insert Caption item on the table context menu. Unfortunately, that isn't available for images. I think the reasoning was that people would use the Figure html construct which contains elements for t...

Happiest Holidays to you and everyone.

You'll need to create a separate target for each permutation and then create a Batch Target.

On the Batch Target, select each of your permutation targets and build away.