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Yes, we could dump all our HTML5 topics into a rough PDF (without page breaks and chapter introductions), but that's going to look pretty rough.

I just learned that Adobe Acrobat Pro has a feature where you can print the content of entire web sites. Unfortunately, this didn't work when I asked my ...

Do any of you have a trick that allows users to print PDFs of all or part of your HTML5 output directly from the browser? We no longer offer PDF targets based on our HTML5 target, but we have the occasional customer who still wants printed help. I'm looking for a tool that allows users to grab the ...

Is it possible to run JavaScript against a PDF as Flare creates the file?

For example, I'd like to pass some JavaScript to Flare so it can modify the PDF front matter pagination (so I don't need to paginate manually afterward).

Thanks,

Rob

I would like to format my code samples in PDFs the same way I can format them with JavaScript and CSS for HTML5 output: preserve the indentations, number each line, and use a horizontally scrollable text box for small screens. Any idea if this is possible with Flare PDF output?

This is a question about the "best practice" for sizing procedure headings. Should the font styling (size) always be the same or is it OK to have it vary, depending on its context?

For some of our print and online documents we have a static font size that uses the paragraph tag instead of a heading ...

I ran across some examples of installation guides in web pages:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install

Each has a method of displaying the table of contents on each page so users don't get ...

Do any of you have experience creating an installation guide using HTML5 Top-Nav Help instead of a PDF? I'm wondering how I could present a huge sequential process such as an installation guide by using Help instead of a PDF. If any of you have tried this, how do you keep users on the straight-and ...

Yes, I've asked Support several times over the years, and I even asked our regional sales rep if MadCap could either upgrade or switch to a new support system. I was told that it was something they were looking at, but alas, it has been several years and still no change.

It sounds like a candidate for a product improvement request, either to add phrases to synonyms or to add indexes to top-nav!

Has anyone else asked MadCap to upgrade their support software from an email-based format to a web-based program that would have a look-and-feel similar to this MadCap forum?

Wouldn't it be fabulous to have MadCap support interactions that are as easy to review and find as these forum discussions ...

So, it looks like there are two benefits to including an index for online output:

* It is a workaround for the limitation of single-word synonyms.
* Index searching, as opposed to primary search, gives users one more avenue to search (and it may even be more direct in some cases).

Does anyone know ...

My focus is really on creating new projects instead of new topics from templates. The idea of having a template project allows me to seed CSS, snippets, page layouts, etc. Where I'm stuck is that a completely new user cannot access templates unless they have a project open. With an existing project ...

Common sense tells me that indexes are designed for print outputs, but I'm wondering if anyone still includes them in their WebHelp or HTML5 output.

What's the difference between making a project using "New from existing" versus "New from template"? If we have a new writer, she won't be able to access an existing template because she can't access "Manage Templates" unless she has a project open. Is there a way for a new Flare user to get the ...

OK, the script loads just fine in HTML5 when I move the command to run the script out of the body tag. It makes sense that a topic's body tag could be replaced by a master page's body tag during compilation. What is curious in this case is that I don't have a master page defined in this test project ...

I am new to Javascript and am exploring how to insert scripts into Flare topics. I made a simple Javascript test that runs in WebHelp but not in HTML5 (tri-pane). Is there a trick to getting scripts to run in HTML5?

Here's my test topic with embedded Javascript:


<head> <title>Rob Test ...

As far as shutting off the header in HTML5, I ran into a bug in Flare (#55794) where you can't have multiple skins for HTML5. Our main project is in HTML5, so I thought I could keep the field-level context sensitive help in HTML5, too, but Flare won't apply my field-level skin that dumps the header ...

Making a separate target that uses the field-level skin does remove the company logo from the context-sensitive help header, but when I need to publish, how would I push the field-level topics into the publishing destination alongside regular HTML5 help? Could there be some collisions if I were to ...

I am testing field-level context sensitive help, and I only want to have a simple, small rectangular pop-up (say, 300px X 100px) with no logo. I noticed that the company logo was still showing up in the header, and that the logo was coming from the main HTML5 skin in the target. In other words, the ...

MadCap Support just let me know that as of Flare 10.2.2, it's not possible to revert to a previous revision using the Flare SVN integration. Users can only view these older versions of topics. This is now a feature request: 97762.

I'm testing the Flare SVN integration and the first day I tested the routine for checking in changed files, Flare would consistently list all the files in my test project whether I had changed them or not. The files I had changed were checked automatically, but they were stuffed into a list of ...

I'm testing the Flare integration with SVN to see how it compares with Tortoise. I'm having trouble reverting to a previous revision. I am able to get an older revision back on my box using the Flare SVN integration, but Flare won't let me check it back in as the new head revision.

Here are the ...

Thanks for all your feedback!

I experimented with the suggestion of using <pre> with the ".number" generic class and autonumber. That was pretty slick, but I still had some trouble with wrapping text that would end up over by the numbers.

I also looked at the suggestion of using the counter ...

The code samples we get from developers have the spaces (or tabs) and no line numbers. I'd like to avoid setting up a routine where I insert line numbers and then use the <PRE> tag. This doesn't seem scalable. I'd really like to figure out a CSS routine that inserts the line numbers along with ...

Does anyone have any tricks for inserting line numbers in code samples that have various levels of indentation? Here is an example of what I want to display in WebHelp and PDFs. Note that I'm using underscores in the mock-up to create the indentation because the forum software doesn't seem to ...