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Kia ora:

Does anybody know why Flare feel it needs to process SVGs for HTML output (e.g., HTML5 targets)? It takes a noticeable amount of time to display SVGs in the Content Explorer preview area, a noticeable amount of time to load SVGs into the editor, and an absurd amount of time to build ...

Hi Dave:

I have a very similar problem. I am required to create a 16-language help system for an embedded application where space is at a premium, and the duplication of images has now become critical. As a proof of concept, I have manually created links to images in a common image folder "above ...

Hi Kwag:

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately my typical project has 8 outputs (one has 32) so I have to make use of the full Flare outlineTOC/conditional text/variable tool set to select content, so the source files are full of Flare-specific elements.

I have tried:
WebHelp, but the output files ...

Hi: I have a project coming up where I will be required to supply simple (static, no javascript, etc.) pages of HTML for an embedded help system. The best I can come up with are the topics generated by the WebHelp target, but these still have a fair amount of extraneous mark-up in them. Any ...

Hi:

I am trying to put together a plan for narrating videos (say Mimic) using audio generated by a text-to-speech converter system. One of the reasons I would like to try this is to generate non-English audio from translated text.
1/Do any readers have any experience doing this?
2/What system do ...

Dave:

thanks for the clarification on the use of the two different list implementations.

I also see from other posts that you can't, for example, cross reference to the auto-number for an item in an <ol>. As an exercise, I have implemented both types of lists. For docs that will mainly be ...

Hi:

we are moving from FM to Flare, and are used to constructing lists out of paragraph styles. In the brave new world of Flare and CSS we have access to the ul, ol, and li elements to create lists. Because:
* I can't see how you can assign CSS list elements to FM paragraphs on import; and
* Flare ...