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Are you using one of the Top Nav skins with HTML5? That skin is not supported for merging projects with server-based help.

I plan to convert to server-based help in order to be able to keep several separate projects and enable searching across all projects in published output. I am hitting some stumbling blocks in designing the new help site site and testing output. In my initial design, I have set up IIS on my computer...

I am having trouble building Flash output. Get an error "Failed to generate .swf". I've tried closing, reopening, rebooting, etc. I've built the Flash output several times in the course of the project and it went fine. But of course, when you're all finished and on deadline, that's when it...

My .NET is current. And there is no particular action I'm doing when it happens. I am doing a lot of copy/paste from FrameMaker, then reformatting in Flare. (Import simply won't handle the complicated layout with multiple conditions, etc., and I want to start clean rather than fix everything.) I do ...

Flare 7.1 crashes on me four or five times a day with no explanation (just "Flare has stopped working"). I'm doing some rather complicated layouts for pdf output, with lots of floating text boxes and images in the margin and such. Don't know if it's a display issue--although they display f...

I, too, strongly object to the auto-save feature in Capture 5.0 (I never used 4.0, so I don't know what that did). Does anyone know how to turn this off? However, I have found I can use Rename to save the image, which gets rid of the automatically saved version. If I don't want to save the image at ...

The PullDownButton style is a FrameMaker para style created to convert to the pulldown style in MC. It's not inline. It's mapped to p.PullDownButton in the import file. Oddly, the PullDownBody style, which is treated the same way, does not do this. However I have style sheets that grew as big as 1Mb...

Every time I reimport FrameMaker files to Flare, the stylesheet grows exponentially. It appears that each instance of a PullDownButton style generates its own style in the stylesheet, so I end up with hundreds of duplicate entries for: MadCap\00003AdropDownHead.PullDownButton Is this a known bug? FY...

You should be able to control this on the import style sheet. Save the stylesheet that's created on import under a different name. Associate that stylesheet with the import file. Then you can tweak the stylesheet as you like.

All images are pngs and are imported into Framemaker at specific dpis. Thanks for the response. I will submit bug.

I've discovered accidentally that Flare resizes images when they have been imported with a specific dpi (which is the way I import all my images). I had an image that had lost its dpi setting (probably due to being resized manually by accident), and this image imported at full size. I believe this i...

I'm having trouble importing graphics from FrameMaker with Flare 4. I followed the instructions to set up a new joboptions file in Distiller with all compression and downsampling set to "off". In my import file I do not have Preserve Image Size or Generate Images.. checked. However, on imp...

Flare documentation isn't particularly helpful about how to re-create your numbering styles based on the p class tags it creates for your numbered lists. However, here's what you need to set in your stylesheet for your "p.stepnum" (or whatever it's called) style: mc-auto-number-class: step...

I get it -- you just want to replicate your TOC as a first content page, right? I would suggest you just create a new topic page that has a list of links to your main topics. Sort of a mini-TOC.

I had the identical problem. It's a FrameMaker 8 thing. You need to install the patch for Flare to use FrameMaker 8. I don't know if you can install that on the trial version or not. I used the trial version of Flare successfully with FrameMaker 7.1. Then I upgraded to FrameMaker 8 and bought the fu...

Well, ok, since a lot of people have looked at this post but no one's responding, I'll talk to myself and see if that helps someone else. What I've discovered is that a lot of stylesheet properties I need are not offered in the import file, when you map styles or set up Framemaker conversion styles....

Please can somebody tell me how to get numbered and bulleted lists to show up when importing from FrameMaker 8? In the style conversion editor, none of the styles available show numbers or bullets, despite being named obvious things like p.BULLETS and p.NUMBERS. I thought maybe this was just a previ...

I have a problem importing images from FrameMaker that include other graphic elements (callouts, circles, arrows, etc.) The help says: "...if the anchored frame contains text, it will not be imported into Flare as text. Instead, a new image will be created from the anchored frame (if this optio...

I'm struggling with the same problem. So ok, Madcap prefers to use <p> in a table with autonumbering. But I don't see any numbers or bullets at all. How am I supposed to map the bullet and list styles to get the numbers and bullets? Also, I copied the styles.css sheet from the Flare Help, but I don'...