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I too am wrestling with the issues discussed in this thread. I paste highlighted code from Visual Studio into Word and them import the Word doc into Flare using the default settings (I think). This results in highlighting that it retained in both HTML and PDF output. The topic code is very verbose ...

But, I want to put [the malformed links] back in correctly so I can link to that location without warnings, if that's possible. Do you happen to know REGEX? I've used REGEX find-replace to tweak malformed text, including but not limited to links. <editorial_digression> For those who don't know REGE...

I've had the same problem when dealing with content imported from Word. Some of the things I've done to resolve those problems include: ONE: Instead of the list of errors generated during Build, I go to the build Log. I usually copy-and-paste the log into a text editor for easier searching. More tha...

I began writing a Python 3 hack that was primitive but sorta` worked. But the need wasn't that great so I never got 'round to productizing it. Truth be told, I forgot I created this thread back in 2013 -- I've been using so many other tools besides Flare that I completely lost sight of the question...

Per the "but in the PDF target the image" bit. Can you use *any* tool to successfully embed the inline SVG tags into a PDF? For example, hand edit a 100-percent standards compliant XHTML and CSS file entirely outside of Flare. Use the W3C's validator to ensure that the XHTML is fully stand...

And I think this topic leads to the question of the execrable flexbox support in Flare continuing into the latest 2018 release. It barely works for HTML5 and, explicitly stated elsewhere, not at all for PDF targets. Why is providing this natively not a priority? First, if there's a need to discuss ...

Could the pre tag be set to white-space: nowrap somehow? That would force the basic code to a single line, but split it when you add a br tag. Any other issues notwithstanding, Flare's PDF engine doesn't handle white-space: nowrap; . See this Forum post for more information: https://forums.madcapso...

I've just moved to a new machine and none of the SVG files are coming out in the PDFs I generate from Flare! Do you see the images in Flare's XML Editor (a.k.a. topic editor)? If yes, then Flare is importing the SVG image. When Flare generates PDF output, it converts SVGs to bitmap images (such as ...

I am also listening to this thread with interest, and exasperated by the Flare editor. I am hoping to find time to get syntax highlighting working in Flare output. Moshe: Join the growing number of us who have submitted Enhancement Requests to Madcap on the issue of Flare's execrable text editor: h...

------ OK, it appears I have a preliminary fix for this problem. To recap, both http://hilite.me/ or Pygments (http://pygments.org/) use inline HTML to style each line of code in a code sample. Both of those tools wrap each line in SPAN tags. SPAN tags are inline elements. While Web browsers display...

------ Might anyone please explain how to get Flare (11) to preserve (as in not destroy) the formatting of a syntax-highlighted code sample pasted into Flare as inline HTML? BACKGROUND The problem arises because JavaScript syntax highlighters won't work in PDF, Flare or otherwise: JavaScript-based h...

I think both of those use javascript. For PDFs, you need a solution that doesn't require javascript. I'd suggest finding a syntax highlighter where you can copy/paste your code, and it'll generate the formatted code ready to copy/paste back into your topic. What I've found so far are: http://hilite...

------ I found some OLD threads about this but nothing recent -- SO I'll refresh the question: Anyone found a way to do syntax highlighting of code that also works in Flare PDF Targets? I've gotten Prism and Rainbow working in Flare online Targets. But even though Flare's PDF engine "knows"...

------ I created a separate thread that describes how I finally got syntax-highlighted code samples to appear in both online and PDF Flare Targets: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29397 The essential point is that one needs to use a syntax highlighter that wraps code in inl...

------ I recalled that I had a licensed copy of FrameMaker 9 on a self-burned CD-ROM. So I installed that. However, Flare 11 then complained about not being able to update the maker.ini file in FM's installation directory. So I changed the file's access privileges to permit Flare to write the locati...

Nita: Thanks. I used up a trial instance of Flare 2017 a couple of months ago. So I can't re-trial it as far as I know. Still hoping to find a costs-effective solution. My Flare gigs aren't generating enough revenue to justify upgrading to a version that does very little that I need done... (SOOOO t...

--- Flare 11.1.2 (final release version), FrameMaker 2017 (trial version). There are OLD forum posts about this but I can't find any recent ones. So I'm re-asking for guidance. The sooner the better... Need to import some FM files on the way to converting them to Flare. Although I have FrameMaker 20...

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Make sure you submit this to MadCap Support directly... Was informed via a 26 May, 2017 email exchange with Madcap sales and marketing that they are aware of my enhancement requests on this issue and that those enhancement requests cite this Forum thread. Here's hoping... In the meantime I've recen...

------ Even more information. As part of researching another Flare-to-PDF problem I hand-edited a simple yet standards compliant HTML5 file, then created a PDF by importing that HTML5 file into Acrobat (9). I then observed that the resulting PDF correctly handled the CSS overflow: hidden; , white-sp...

------ I thought for a brief second that I might have found the fix. But I was disappointed. As explained in my original post, my headers and footers are composed of one-row, two-column tables. In the Table Style Editor , General tab, there is a setting named Overflow . That setting's options includ...

Can you describe what you wish it would do instead? ... If the content exceeds the amount of physical space available, what do you want to have happen? Should the header container get larger? Should the content shrink to a size so the text will fit? Maybe if we know what you are EXPECTING to happen...

Also via the Write The Docs team's Flare channel on Slack came the following: it’s not a flare problem! cmyk tends to appear a bit more drab on-screen, and that’s sort of because it models colours differently (subtractive model instead of an additive model, and using different values etc.) You’ll ge...

------ Got a quick-fix over on Slack's Write The Docs -> Flare channel as follows. -> In the PDF Target Editor -> PDF Options , there's a Convert RGB Colors to CMYK checkbox. That checkbox is evidently by default set. Clearing that checkbox displayed the RGB color specs correctly on screen . -> But ...

------ For Flare 11, PDF Targets. Adobe Acrobat Distiller and Adobe PDF printer available. Foxit PDF printer available. In PDF targets, colors specified in HEADER FRAMES as the frame's background color comes out dull and "muddy" looking. But the same color inserted as PNG background image ...