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Has anyone had problems with the way Chrome displays the WebHelp toolbar? The buttons on my tool bar are are scrunched together and one actually overlays another.

If so, is there a fix that anyone knows about?

The toolbar looks fine in FireFox and IE (haven't tried Safari yet).

This problem ...

Never mind. The Use TOC Depth setting was the culprit.

I'm in the process of converting to using Flare 8 from Flare 7. For my PDF output, it looks like Flare is ignoring the Print support Page Break settings for my H1 style. Setting the page layout break on a file works, but not the stylesheet heading. Has anyone else seen this?

? I have my reasons for not wanting to switch to a different format right now.

Besides, the HTML 5 topic print feature doesn't provide the output that I want so I don't see it as a viable option at this point in time. (and yes, Printing topics IS important to my customers).

Ah, but I still want to use the WebHelp format for my current help system. I'm not sure I'll be able to move to HTML 5 until the next release of our product.

Another Flare version and still no way to specify the TOC entry selection color. After, what, 4 years? Sheesh.

I'm experimenting with using the WebHelp output to create an electronic library of our customer-facing product information. What I think will work is to make one large WebHelp project that pulls all of the other projects into one place. I can then publish the large project to the webserver, link to ...

I put my content in a text box and then set the top margin to get it to move to near the bottom of the page. Of course, if the content changes on that last page, I have to go back and muck with the top margin settings again. Hardly an ideal solution but I get close -- sort of. I keep thinking that ...

Perfect! Thank you so much.

Yup, all good points. Thanks for the thoughts.

I'm discovering that the Mobile output would require a heck of a lot of customization (and I am not a Javascript guru) to produce anything that's useful.

Essentially, what I want is to be able to do is use a single source to deliver in PDF, WebHelp ...

Ah, good suggestion. Not sure why I discounted it originally, but it might do what I want.

I'm working on creating a flavor of my help system that doesn't include the navigation pane, but accesses a TOC and Index from custom buttons in a Topic Toolbar. I want to be able to integrate the online help system (and other documents) into our corporate website but because of the way the ...

Oh, never mind. Just realized that these codes examples work on the WebHelp toolbar but not the Topic Toolbar. Sigh.

I'm trying to use the examples in this thread to get a custom button in a topic toolbar to link to a topic in my help system. I'm missing something because I can't get it to work.

In the Styles tab, I selected my button and added this in the OnClick area:

parent.frames["body"].location.href ...

You can add my voice to the request for enhanced abilities for customizing skins. The MadCap gallery shows, essentially, the same design but with different graphics - nothing special. I'd love some guidelines about what files you need to work with to get true customization. Is there some type of ...

I must be missing something somewhere.

I have two targets in a project. Each target uses a different style sheet. One of the stylesheets has a medium that I want to use. However, when I look for that medium in the Advanced tab ofthe Target page, the medium doesn't display. Only the mediums from ...

Thanks for the input. I think my big concern was how well non-tech writers would be willing to use a different tool, other than the Wiki or their beloved Word.

When I was part of a team, I did follow a lot of the steps that wclass talks about. Now that I'm a sole writer, I get to do most of those ...

I'm mighty weary of exchanging Word files with my SMEs in the field, especially since I use Flare for most everything else. I'm curious about MadCap Contributor and am wondering if it might make my remote review process easier. If you've used or are using Contributor, what are your thoughts and ...

Thanks. Oddly enough, I totally forgot about being able to set up a publishing target - which would help with getting all of the WebHelp files over to the webserver. I need to drink more coffee :-)

No, we don't need shopping carts, forums, or so forth. We have widgets on the site to do that. My ...

What I'd like to be able to to do is use Flare to create all of my source material for product docs, knowledge base articles, and anything I post on the Web and then be able to be able to post the content on our Corporate website in a reasonably efficient manner.

What we have today is a very basic ...

Never mind. I just realized that it's the graphic that appears right above the footer text that was throwing everything off. Sheesh. Nothing like Pilot Error.

I'm having some issues with getting a 3-part running footer to display correctly using Page Layouts with an output to PDF.

My running footer has a product version on the left, a date in the middle, and a page number on the right. I'm using a 3-column table to try to get things aligned correctly ...

Another Flare update released (7.1) and still no way to change the TOC entry color the way you can for the Index entry. (and yes, I submitted a feature request about a year or two ago).

C'mon Flare guys...can you please push this one up on the priority list? Every time I update the software, I have ...

Is there a way to add an Expand All/Collapse all control for the TOC pane, like we have for individual topics?

joan

What I did was create a new medium for my Word output and change the margin-left setting for ol and ul to points (pt) instead of ems. Now my list items align correctly.

For my PDF output, I use my original print medium instead of the Word medium.

joan