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Thank you for the idea! What occurred was very interesting.

A crossref at the end of a line -- say, "See Slaying a Jabberwocky on page 30" would run all the text off the right side of page, but the page number appeared on the next line.



You could set the autonumber style (defined in the class ...

As mentioned above, Flare seems to have memory leaks. I usually restart it before generating the output of large projects.

If your project contains one or more topics with many and/or very large images (this is usually a problem with print output, rather than online formats), Flare may easily run ...

Are you only planning on doing print output? InDesign and Word are very different programs from Flare and purposely have different capabilities. why did you decide to use Flare?

In this project, yes. My choice of Flare is based on its better cross-referencing than Word, and its ability to handle ...

You can make a copy of the whole folder structure of your project and give it a different name (e.g. a name that incorporates the version number). You can then continue to update one of the two copies to the current version of the software, while keeping the other as an archive. Flare regards them ...

Yes, those are the pagelayouts i'm talking about.

You can create multiple versions of pages and associate them with certain topics. i think that is the only way to make text appear in a certain place on a page without using styles with padding on each side. i have three different page layouts ...

Are you using the PageLayout tool? With that, you can make the text (and image?) display in a certain spot on a page.
Hi Laura,

do you mean the Contents Explorer/Resources/PageLayouts folder in Flare? Unfortunately, it does not seem to help. Some pages have pictures, other don't, image and ...

I believe Flare "phones home" at regular intervals to verify that its license is valid. If you stop it by blocking it with a firewall or other similar method, most likely the program will detect this and simply exit or crash. Older versions of Flare did the same thing also when the computer was ...

In the most common printed book layout, each text figure is placed at the top of its page, followed by the figure caption, and then by the page text, which continues from the previous page and reflows to fit the remaining text frame space under the figure. This is so common that one implicitly comes ...

I must publish the PDF output of a large project as three separate volumes. It is not really important whether I obtain three separate PDF files (which I don't know how to get from Flare from within a single target) or a single PDF file that I then split manually in Acrobat Pro.

I got some of the ...

You can make the image (or image paragraph class) style have page-break-before: always.
I don't think that will move the surrounding text, though.

Exactly, that is my problem: a variable portion at the bottom of the preceding page will remain empty if I use page-break-before (or in the worst ...

Is there a way to force each picture (or more generally an instance of a given paragraph class) to be always placed at the top of its page, flowing other paragraphs to positions before or after the figure as appropriate to fill all page surface on the figure page and its preceding page?

My target ...

In order to work around the inability of Flare to support equations, I am writing the equations in Word Equation and saving magnified screen captures as PNG images, which I insert in Flare where required. So far so good.

In the output PDF file, the equation images are obviously degraded and display ...

I need to perform search-and-replace operations of contents and/or attribute values in specific XML tags. This does not seem possible within Flare, so I may need an external XML utility to do this. I need this functionality virtually every day, so it should be common enough among Flare users.

As an ...

Thanks Bob,

yes, it does in fact work with colons. There is even a note near the top of the Term toolbox that says "Use colons (:) to separate levels". The problem is, the Term toolbox instead inserts semicolons when one types terms and subterms in successive lines in this toolbox.

Perhaps I ...

I have numerous index entries that look like the following in the green tags displayed in the editor and in the gray pop-up that opens by hovering on a green tag:

asterisk;green
asterisk;red

The corresponding XML code is <MadCap:keyword term="asterisk;green" /> and <MadCap:keyword term="asterisk ...

I need equation numbers at the right text margin of the page (slightly inside or slightly outside the margin, it does not matter), like:

_______________________[my equation here, either as text or bitmap]______________________(1)

(I am using underscores because spaces are just eliminated when I ...

I understand 64bit, but why Vista?

As mentioned by others in this thread, XP 64 bit does not work too well (co-workers' experience) and has only partial driver support. Windows 7 is not out yet here, so this leaves Vista as the only alternative for a laptop. So far, Vista works much better than ...

But why did you switch to Vista?

I finally gave up on 32 bit software and their memory limitations. I do need more than 3.something GB. This is not for Flare's sake, which is strictly 32-bit code (but also Flare eventually will have to switch to 64-bit code to cope better with big projects: 15-20 ...

So...
-For each agency I need to do 3 levels of help (Manager/Worker/Guest) and each has to have it's own specifically tailored pics. Most of the text is the same between agencies but the pics are almost all tailored to each agency.

-Do you think this would be best in separate little projects (as ...

One thing at a time ...


Also when I imported all the word documents, my pics were all replaced with gigantic crazy images from other parts of the document (e.g. a screen pic would be replaced with a gigantic logo).

Most software saves pictures at 96 DPI. Working with screen-dump of the GUI of ...

I switched to Vista 64 bit recently. Flare is in the list of exceptions of Windows Firewall, but the first time I start Flare at home or in the office I still get a dialog asking whether I want to allow Flare to access the network. What's up? (I know about the Flare Phone Home "feature", my question ...

I have not tested this, but I think that your problem is that the link is broken once the code is compiled (i.e., the CHM file you just compiled is looking in the wrong folder for the external CHM file). If so, try to copy the external CHM file to the Targets\HTMLHelp folder (you must do it after ...

Replying to myself:

I did find the answer in the Flare help system (look for a topic entitled "Editing Relationship Link Styles"). My problem (or Flare bug?) was in part that the stylesheet editor, when set to display styles for re-usable content, does display the MadCap|relationshipsProxy class ...

I got relationships links and relationships table to work (sort of).

The relationship table has the three default columns (concept, task, reference) and an additional one (this_topic). Web output displays the right links in the relationships proxy, under the "concept", "task" and "reference ...

see this post from Dave Lee on how to do it --> http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7317&p40672#p40672 . Note that was written before v5, so I'm not sure if any of the styles have changed.

I have to correct my statement about this code working in v5. I found one major problem ...