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Uh, one more thing, also take more RAM into consideration, but not sure if that would make much difference in build times. But 2 GB for a Windows system is rather wimpy these days.

Right now I have Flare 7, Outlook (2010), Word, Excel, OneNote, Notepad++, SnagiT, Communicator, Internet Explorer ...

I have experienced the same issue with my list styles - I appreciate the link, hopefully I can figure out what I need to do correctly. One follow up questions that I have:

My lists look good in Flare, and pretty much all browsers, except when IE works in compatibility mode. When IE is in ...

Hello,
Has anyone done research or created a business case to purchase Solid State Hard Drives for Flare that they would be willing to share? I'm looking for statistics in build times that would make a solid case for good ROI.

I have 2500 page guides that take around 60 minutes to build PDF's and ...

lacastle wrote:It should repeat if the header row information is in a <th> tag. In your table properties, make sure you have at least 1 header row included.

Brilliant! I didn't think of adding the caption to a header row. Thanks for the fast reply!

I did a search in the forums and I couldn't find an answer to my question. Is there a way to repeat a Table Caption when a table breaks the page?

For example:

Table 1. My Awesome Table

Table

~~Page Break~~

Table 1. My Awesome Table (cont.)

Table

Ineffable wrote:Hi elephant in the room: Is it just me, but does anyone see $499 worth of upgrades?

I guess it depends on your deliverables, but for us It is worth the Table enhancements alone. Subversion integration and External Resources is gravy.

Dave Lee wrote:For me...
- External Resources
- New alias editor
- Table enhancements, and being able to see table tags properly in the editor
- Preview in a particular target
- Chrome support

Exactly my list as well.

The new Text to Table enhancement is going to cut down WEEKS of Frame to Flare conversion. This release hits so many of my pain points in Flare. I'm incredibly impressed!!! There is so much stuff in there I want to implement immediately. Is it ok to geek out over Flare?

How soon are gold ...

I don't think that thread had complete information. An _gen_ appears when there are any blank lines with heading ( h1, h2, etc.) tags.

Jennifer,
Crazy - we both encountered the same problem, both contacted technical support to fix it, and both had different solutions.

I need to make specific topics print landscape page, so I created a specific "Chapter_Landscape" page layout, started a new chapter document for those topics, and ...

We have around 20,000 pages to convert (first 6,000 already completed!). I dump the html files into Notepad++ to use regular expressions. I expect with 20 writers it will take 8-10 hours per guide. We'll have everything done in about 2 weeks.
Ah - yes, if every author knows his way with RE ... but ...

We have around 20,000 pages to convert (first 6,000 already completed!). I dump the html files into Notepad++ to use regular expressions. I expect with 20 writers it will take 8-10 hours per guide. We'll have everything done in about 2 weeks.

Due to our release schedule, we will be using <p> styles after the conversion and then make it a backlog project to manually convert to <ol> and <ul> styles.

I think I got it squared away. You're not allowed to map Frame list styles to ol and ul styles in Flare - they have to come in as <p> styles. I made a CSS goof.

I fixed the issue by removing:
list-style-type: disc;
display: list-item;

from the stylesheet and created the bullet using the mc ...

Kind of an odd-ball issue.

Here is my bulleted list style:
p.INDENTList_Bullets,
p.INDENTList_Bullets_Keep_With
{
color: #000;
list-style-type: disc;
display: list-item;
font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 80%;
font-weight: 400;
margin: 7pt 0 0 1.75in;
padding: 3pt;
text-align ...

Thanks for sharing.

i-tietz,
I like your idea - that would save us some time as well. Madcap should add an option on the snippet properties to "Insert Snippet as editable text." Like yourself, we use snippets as templates for tables, graphics, and notes. Most of our snippets are used as text, only a few are used for ...

Test calls is grayed out for two reasons:
1) The primary target must be the webhelp target.
2) You need to build the primary webhelp target. Flare uses the help from your output folder to test the calls.
I really am sorry for being so vague, the other TW quit and I am still behind the learning ...

Eric,
What happens when you test the CSH calls?

Ensure your webhelp is set to the primary target and build. Return to Flare.
Go to Build > Test CSH API Calls.
Locate your topic in the list and choose Test.

What happens?

Saying "no" is sometimes essential.

We don't have that luxury in our industry. We have a 20+ year relationship with some of our customers because we can react as fast as we can. I've been with the company for 13 years, and in that time I've only seen one major client leave, and that client is out ...

I understand, but honestly, that is entirely insane. Fortunately, projects like these will take care of themselves sooner or later, but not in a positive way.

There is a reason why my username is Technicaldisaster . :wink:

I do work for the company - not a contractor. My primary ...

We'll have to agree to disagree about our development methodology. Our industry demands that we bring requested features to market ASAP, in many cases to meet state and federal guidelines. Our software is mission critical to call centers around the United States, and our customers make it a ...

You mention you are replacing an old page, but in step 8 it looks like you are creating a brand new identifier. I assume it does not work because the application that is doing the call is looking for the old topic, not the new one.

If want to replace a topic and use an the original identifier ...

Phlawm53,

I have also had this issue. I solved it by running FrameMaker as an Administrator.

Right Click on FrameMaker icon and choose Properties.
Select the Compatibility tab.
Click the "Change Settings for all users."
Check "Run this program as an administrator."
Save and close.
Restart ...

RamonS,
I'm really interested in what your QA does for your docs. We have SME & Edit, but our software QA does not look at our docs as far as I know. We might have a few products that use CSH and those are checked in QA, but not anything else.

I'll try to explain more about my rogue topics.

I ...