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Hey Madcap - did you do anything in Version 7 to make this work out?

The WebHelp Setup "Topic Settings" for Show navigation link at top/bottom of topic are great - but we want to use it even when it is not a stand alone topic. Got any ideas how we can work around this?

One more thing - can we set ...

64mb took less than an hour for me.
I submitted our 250mb project to Madcap who said they reproduced the problem. They passed it to development as bug 43765 in case we ever get to see it as fixed.

Ugh, I hate those kind of solutions.... (force reduced).

Anyway, if it's in the repository already, then open Flare and Import from SOurce Control seems to be the only experience that's worked for us - on small projects. From then on, it seems to work. (Again, your Source Control may not be SVN and ...

I see this thread is a little old, so hopefully you've worked it out.

In Flare 7, the help files about Source Control point out that you only need to Bind source control once to the repository (in our case, SVN Subversion). In this step, you are taking files locally on your computer and putting ...

We are trying a WORK AROUND for this sick SVN FLARE puppy. We will use Tortoise to manage the files independent of Flare. Flare happily lets us edit since all it needed was files that are not read-only. Painful but a work around. Can't wait two days for this import to load. :?

Yes, like jforsyth ...

Same problems when BINDING the source to SVN repository on WIndows 7 64 bit with 8GM ram. Project size is 5800 files in 340 folders (268mb) - Content and Project folders only.
Repeated attempts always seems to hang at same location.
Smaller project seems ok.

Flare 7, Apache SVN

We found that we loose changes in a unique scenario where the prompts from the Flare error messages are misleading. After we experienced this a few times, we caught on and we try to watch more carefully. Here's how it goes.

Bob and Roger are editing the same topic (Version 50 ...

We'd like to see this fixed too, but it might not be all flare issue. The SVN process from the client (a al Flare SVN integration?) doesn't poll the server to see if the file's status has changed. It's only when you Check In the file that the status is known.

I think Flare docuementation should ...

We noticed that if you add your Flare project to your SVN repository the first time by "binding" the project to the SVN source control, Flare is smart enought to NOT bind unneccessary folders like Users and OUtput. That's a good thing

For what it's worth - i have the same problem and haven't found a solution yet either. I wish the error was a little ( a lot ) more descriptive.

If you are using this img max-width in your css, Flare automatically creates the resized image.
Don't use img {max-width: 425px;} if you don't want the extra images. Flare also retains the original image in the output. No savings on file folder.

Work around is to create images at the size you want ...

Seems that this is one feature that Framemaker has an advantage over Flare....

I have seen this if my style calls for something like this - td img {max-width: 90%;}. If I change it to 300px, the error goes away.

Also, when there is a style for img, then the auto-generate feature is overridden and it performs the action of creating new images according to support (Alvaro Case ...

I have similar problem and i'm faced with two solutions.

First, since these .js scripts are NOT needed for my project (we use the HTML as is in our product), I can remove the <script>...skinsupport...</script> lines from each .htm file Flare produces in the build. A custom PERL script will do this ...

I was going to suggest the same thing as Dave about using auto-numbered paragraphs. If you do that, you don't need the table at all -- Flare doesn't have a problem with floated images next to paragraphs. Word probably won't like it, so if you're building Word output then you'll need to stick to ...

Thanks Lisa. This worked out fine for both ie and Firefox.
li1.gif is a simple square bullet image.

p.Bulleted
{
mc-hyphenate: never;
background-image: url('../Images/li1.gif');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
margin-top: .25em;
margin-bottom: .5em;
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 2em;
text ...

Square Bullet style definition

p.bullet
{
mc-auto-number-format: '{color #F7A11A}{family WingDings}n {/family}{/color} ';
mc-auto-number-class: BulletSymbol;
mc-auto-number-position: outside-head;
}


This works in IE but not in FireFox.

What other ways do you suggest to put a square ...

It's definitely much better practice to use mediums.

Yes, I"m thinking of going to my local "medium" to forsee what Flare is going to do to me next.

I have a new delemma! WebHelp ignores media non-print and does what defaut css settings say. Ouch, this hurts. Spent days converting into target ...

Thanks for the feedback.

One advantage to two .css files is that my buddy can make a change to on-line (non-print) and not affect the pdf (print) at all.

Occaisionally, a quick fix at the top of the file (default) has an impact on the @media print section without us realizing it was done ...

I have multiple targerts - PDF and online.
Which is better practice overall?
1 - Use one CSS file for all targets and use the @media to distinguish all tags styles (@media print, @media non-print, @media whatever)
2 - Use a CSS file for each target type (pdfStyle.css, onlineStyle.css)

My associate ...

Thanks, that's good to know. I've submitted it.

I've requested that Flare support nameddest (named destinations) in PDF targets. They said they'd think about it. If you agree it's a good idea, comment here and let them know.

In case you didn't know, PDF's have the ability to allow you to add certain parameters to open it to a particular page ...

I found this to work in v5.01 after I got my css syntax correct.
mc-leader-format: '.';

Have fun ...