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We're looking to get our HTML5 output available to customers using ipads and making it useable while offline. From my searches there seems to be a few options.

1) Phonegap - but this is now discontinued
2) Progressive Web App (PWA) - the reason why Phonegap was discountinued

Has anyone had any ...

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the reply. Maybe a bit of background will help my problem.

We create the help in an English Flare project. We then want to translate the project into many different languages (eg, Chinese, German, French, Swedish etc). We also want to be able to handle updates to the ...

Hi all,

I must be missing something here, but I can not for the life of me work out what the review process is when using Flare/Lingo with an external translator.

So.. these steps are easy. Flare project > Lingo Project > Bundle sent to external translator >They translate and return the bundle for ...

Ignore the above question - it's done via the Project Properties Dialog. Just wasn't working for me because I had a bundle out for translation.

Is it possible to add a new language to an existing Lingo 10 project?

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I use GPL to link a topic in a global project to a child project, the images that are in the topic are not automatically imported/linked as well. Is this the way it is meant to work?

Is it possible to change the displayed text size within Flare? Not talking about the text size of the content but just the size at which everything is shown within Flare (like how we can adjust text size in a browser using Ctrl-mousewheel).

UPDATE: Solution found. Was right in front of me!
Bottom ...

Really annoying bug is affecting our work. If an image is edited in Capture (eg adding an arrow or text) and then used in a Flare project, if the output is HTMLHelp (CHM) then the image will not dispaly properly. All that is shown is a image frame and a X icon. The image appears fine in other ...

I've already had a couple of complaints about the extended tocpath details from internal users of our HTML5 webhelp.

I'll most likely have to rebuild using V8.

Is it possible to publish in the background?

RIght now, if I am publishing a project using the inbuilt publishing feature, I am unable to continue working in Flare. If I use an external FTP program to publish, then I can continue editing in Flare. Being able to publish inthe background would be ...

Thanks for all those that have replied, you have been very helpful.
LTinker68's tip helped with putting the "Open topic with Navigation" line onto each page, unfortunately, the link created has the same problem as before. "StartTopic = null..."

Must be something with the redirection messing things ...

OK, no joy with being able to go direct to the server.

So on an alternate tack, does anyone know how Madcap put the "Open topic with navigation " links onto their webhelp pages, which only shows if the page is opened "outside" the webhelp framework?

One problem with throwing everything between one set of pre tags is the issue of indentation. Currently, I'm using 5 p "code" styles with different indents so that the code is readable.

This forum has the ability to handle code snippets well. It would be nice for Flare to be able to handle it the ...

Thanks,

I've tried setting up a URL but each time I get a error in the load of the WebHelp. Got to the Default_CSH.htm ok, but setting the topic to load brings up an error.

"...Default_Left.htm#StartTopic=null..."

One note: we have a redirect in place for the webhelp,, would that affect things?

We serve our help files using WebHelp, but we also have forums where users of our product post questions. I was wondering if there was a simple way for us to be able to provide a link to a specific topic in the WebHelp, something link a URL that we could post in the forums or via email.

If we ...

We have the same requirement to embed code within the help files and I'm having the same problems as the original poster. I tried the Pre tag but that seems to remove all line breaks in the copy and pasted code.

So bascially, either I end up with a double line break or no line breaks...

Using Firefox 3 (downloaded it yesterday) WebHelp search is not working on a locally stored file (works fine in IE). The Loading indicator gets stuck at 5 bars and the search box never appears.

This error appeared in the Error Console

Security Error: Content at file:///I:/Flare%20Projects ...