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If you have a lot of locked files to unlock, you don't have to unlock them one at a time. In regular Windows Explorer (not in the Tortoise Repo-browser), right-click on the folder containing the locked files, choose TortoiseSVN , then choose Release lock . If you also have the Tortoise Repo-browser ...

I have an entire Web site I'd like to use Flare to manage. All the files are in XHTML with CSS. A lot of people link to various pages, so I'd like to maintain all file names. My Web pages all have DIVS that create a wider main portion and a narrower "side bar" with drop-down navigation (all CSS ...

I tried importing a CHM file and got the following error message: "Project Importer (Internal Error): Index was outside the bounds of the array." Does this ring a bell with anyone, or should I contact Flare technical support? I'm using Flare 9.1.1. Thanks!

I haven't tested this yet, but this is what MadCap tech support sent me:

"In the TOC properties dialog for the entries which are chapter breaks, select Reset to: {chapnum} - {n} and Format:Text."

I also asked, "How can I include a list of figures and a separate list of tables in my PDF output? I ...

Is it possible it has something to do with your Web browser settings?

http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/di ... at-xi.html

I am in a hurry trying to solve a problem myself, but I have the same TOC for WebHelp, PDF, and Word output, and I use the same set of page layouts for both PDF and Word outputs. (I use master pages for WebHelp output.) I have a few things conditionalized for "print only" or "screen only," and I use ...

This is a belated response. Using conditions is an excellent suggestion, but when you have thousands of keywords, the amount of time required to individually mark every single keyword with a condition is prohibitive. Though as you suggested, a regex might work. If/when we get more budget for this ...

This is a really, really late reply, but in working with Flare, especially when moving files around, I sometimes need to refresh a folder before changes show. (Select the folder, press F5.) Sometimes I need to refresh the folder a few times, or navigate away from it and then back and then refresh ...

I am creating a template for PDF output of our reports. Our page numbering style is ChapNum-PageNum (e.g., page 3 in chapter 6 would be numbered 6-3), and I can get the pages in the chapters to properly number that way. How can I have the page numbers in the TOC (generated using the proxy) to also ...

Following up: I have figured out how to get the various topics to flow or start on a new page; everything looks good. Thank you, everyone, for your help.

Thanks...no, all the heading styles are set to avoid page breaks before. But that was a good thought.

I specified the page break settings for each topic. If I only set those settings for the chapter-level topics, then all the topics run together, which is sort of what I want, except that I want a break at the chapter-level topics, and that isn't working. I'll keep experimenting with the settings ...

The table solution worked perfectly. Thanks!

I still cannot get the topics to flow. I've changed all the heading levels to avoid page breaks before (edit: in first just the print medium stylesheet, then also in the default), and yet there are still page breaks before each new topic in the PDF ...

Thanks to both of you! I think the table solution will work, and yes, h1 had page break before set to always, so I changed that in the print medium.

I am preserving the left/right pages because, although our company style doesn't need it, I also plan to use this template as a basis for projects we ...

I am creating PDF output to match our company's Word styles. We don't have unique left/right pages; the text in the headers is like this:

Document Title (left-aligned) (space here) Section Title (right-aligned)
(entire header area has a half-point blue line/border underneath)

How can I create this ...

Thank you! That's perfect and exactly what I need. I have one more question (I think) for this particular task: where do I set the background color for the entire toolbar?

Edit: I found it: Skin editor > Styles tab > Styles box > Frame > Toolbar.

Thanks, everyone, for your answers. I asked my daughter to take a look at the icons and she was able to re-color a sampling, so recoloring is an option.

However, I am interested in one of the skins available for download on the MadCap site, but we'd like to recolor it. Most of the skin elements are ...

I'd like to place all skins in whatever location it is that Flare uses when you open the Project > New > Skin dialog box. Do you know where that folder is? Thanks!

We want to use the Flare WebHelp icons, but change the lime-green in them to another color. Our graphics specialist has taken a look at the default Flare icons and says that the palette is locked in those icons, so she can't change the colors. So I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to unlock ...

Following up on this many months later...how did you make this a global change so that all projects use this icon?

Thanks for the information. And of course the answers gave rise to new questions.

if I copy the icons to one project and then create a skin using those icons, then that skin keeps those icons embedded, so I can use that skin in another project. But since the icons get embedded, is it necessary to ...

I am creating a template for my company that is to use our company colors. I want a set of icons that are in the company colors (basically, we are going to take the Flare icons and color them differently), but I already have two projects that use Flare's default icons, and I don't want to mess up ...

Thank you!

A very late reply, but I think worth making. I ended up using snippets, but because each of those many tables was indexed row-by-row, that means that there are multiple index entries for each parameter in those re-used tables. Although you can set a topic so it isn't searchable, there seems to be no ...

I found that I can create a pop-up with the footnote content and then replace the footnote entirely. Then, after creating the pop-up, I open the topic in the HTML editor and add an a href to the hyperlinks.