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Agreed, Wil. That's the exact process I tried, with no results. So I guess it's on to an Enhancement Request for both of us.

Have you heard anything back on this? I've found that by dragging the larger circle in the middle of the polyline to the left or right side of the polyline that this straightens the line, but I'd prefer not to have to do this every time. Thanks!

Adrian - Did you end up submitting an enhancement request? I'm at version 5.0.0 and it appears these simple editing capabilities are still missing.

Anyone had any further luck with rotating lines in Capture? I'm at version 5.0.0 and can't get my lines to rotate.

I created an enhancement request (Case 27803) for the issue with custom font styles not being available across all inserted equations.

Totally, totally rocks! Can't wait to give this a whirl.

Thank you, Bob! Your post has been extremely helpful, and lets me know I'm not going crazy trying to get things to work. I appreciate it!

I was initially excited to hear about the Equation Editor, since I have been creating and saving my equations in a PowerPoint document, and doing screen shots of them to get images for my documents.

However, I am running into a couple hurdles that are preventing me from feeling comfortable ...

Thanks! That makes a little more sense.

Yes, we do track features, enhancements, and defects using numbers (it's too bad my company is still trying to merge us all onto TFS; we currently use 3 different systems of numbers for tracking this stuff, depending on what solution/application we work with ...

Can you give me some examples of what you name your conditions for features?

I've thought on this a little bit more, and am confused how this works. For example, I can understand initially having a condition for "New Logon Screen." But then what happens if in Software Update 1 there is a small ...

bellasatori, did you ever get this resolved?

We have a similar issue where we don't have any method of source control other than SharePoint. So we are implementing our projects in Flare, and we want to be able to upload the files easily (and not one at a time, as I am currently doing) to the ...

We are working in Flare V7.1, which has a feature to import the HTML files that make up the .chm. Navigate to Project > Import HTML Files to open the wizard and locate the files.

Thank you for your suggestion! I can see how this will initially require some planning and procedure development ...

We recently purchased Flare, and wanted to take advantage of Source Control. Unfortunately our company's TFS implementation is not finished yet, so our only option right now is to use SharePoint to at least store checkout history and so forth.

However, we have not been able to get this Flare ...

We are in the same boat. A team of 4 writers with A LOT of stuff to migrate from Author-it into Flare.

All our templates, style sheets, etc. are finished, and we have practiced many times importing a few documents; we've imported both Word and .chm versions. Either way, we still end up doing a lot ...

Ineffable - I was caught off guard for a LONG time about that pesky H1 behavior as well.

Even though the topic description/heading always appears initially as the H1 style, during the build this can change depending on where the topic appears in your TOC. If the topic is truly a chapter and not ...

I feel like I'm missing some key aspect of the basics of Flare here. I took over as admin of the Flare system we are migrating to, and I'm trying to figure out why/how my former associate set up some of the files.

For example:
Templates are located at \\apint\gamma\Methodology\Flare\zFlareTemplates ...

I am just starting to implement Flare on Version 7.1 and have noticed this still appears to be an issue (that variable in xrefs don't show up in the output). Did anyone ever submit this as a bug?

Thanks, Andrew! Your input has been very helpful and reassuring!

Does this mean you have a lot of tags then? For example, in the release notes I am currently documenting, there are 42 new features. That would equate to 42 condition tags vs. just 1 condition tag for a new version.

We are implementing Flare, and some of the condition tags we are creating represent different releases of our software (because we can't just be sensible and maintain a single code line).

For example, I have a Daylight Saving Checklist that I have 5 targets for (each corresponding to a different ...

Thanks everyone! This is exactly what I've been looking for, 'cause I just can't stand how the help is broken up in "bits and pieces" in the applications. I wanted the complete WebHelp picture that included the Index, TOC, and Search features all together.

Anyone know why we can't just launch this ...

We have a web output that has been fine. I recently added 4 new topics, all based off of a task template. Three of the 4 topics generate just fine, but the fourth is centered/has some obvious spacing issues, as it is hugely indented.

I have tried creating a brand new topic; the content in the topic ...

We just made some updates to our global style sheet. Some related questions:

1. How soon should other users see the changes once they reimport the style sheet?
2. Will they have to re-open or refresh their projects to see the imported styles?
3. For cross-reference changes, will previously inserted ...

Did you submit a defect? Or do you know if anything came of this? I am trying to accomplish the same thing...

I have created a Profile in Capture. When I open the Profile Properties and got to the Flare Print tab, I am able to set a custom value of 200 in the Print DPI field.

I have a coworker who is unable to set custom values. When she tries to type in the field, nothing happens. She is on Windows 7 and ...