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Thanks for the replies! I have used Flare before BUT it was a loooooooooong time ago (Robohelp then Flare v1) and lots of bits are better / different now, so trying to remember from those times is sometimes not easy. I am getting to grips with it and some things are now starting to fall into place (...

We have gone to Flare 11 recently from Word. We currently have in Word graphics within documents, these graphics occupy the whole page apart from a header, footer and an illustration title between the graphic and footer. I am trying to re-create this in Flare (primarily for pdf output) so I added a ...

Hi all,
We are using Flare 10 and would like to store our docs within Conisio, anybody done this? got any info?

separate program that we are looking into, to enable us to use our Solidworks files, but we have at present not much idea of how to integrate them into the Flare output. The Composer files are svg, png or avi for movies, so we probably can import them somehow, I am just going to download a trial of ...

All,
Anybody used Flare with Solidworks Composer?
I am planning to use this program and import the subsequent files (picture and video) into Flare, anybody used these together? anything to beware of?

Hello all, I am just trying to get to grips with DotNet Help. I have the Index Results pane always appearing at the bottom of the main window, I have tried everything I can think of to open the help with this pane closed, but cannot find a method to do this. Is there a way, or am I just still suffer...

We are updating to 3.1 and plan to use Dotnet help instead of HTML help. In the 3.1 Getting Started Guide there is mention of source control integration but I cannot find many actual details, we use CVS at present and I keep the .CHM files under this control (because our developer prefers it this wa...

I have just had a look at the new feedback process and a review copy of Flare 3.1 as I am thinking of upgrading from a previous version. This seems a really good idea but why do people have to rate a topic if they just want to post a comment ? or is it me that is looking at this wrongly (I only open...

Thanks for the reply Laura, I found a way by accident this morning. I was deleting the images one by one an accidently clicked on the Images folder and deleted that, so I went into the project Content - Resources folder and added a new empty images folder and put the new images in there. BTW - re-na...

Hello All, I am using v1.12 and modding an existing file. As part of this I need to remove all the old images and replace them with different ones, is there any easy way ?. I am currently looking at deleting them one by one from the content explorer, but... Thanks in anticipation folks. ps. Technica...