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Oh, well, so much for that thought. Flare was slower in earlier versions, and I think it might still be slow if you have a looong table in a topic, but I haven't noticed the speed issue that you see in a "standard" topic.

You can get to line 20 in a topic by pressing the down arrow 20 times?

How?

LTinker68 wrote:Just out of curiosity, what version of Flare are you using?

v7

What exactly is slow?

You missed the most important step!

- Navigating to the line to edit

If I open a topic that has 200 lines of text, and I am making an edit on line 50, I have two choices:

- Down arrow: In Flare, I have to hit down arrow 100 times to get to line 50.
--- In Dreamweaver ...

Displaying condition colors also slows down the editor, if you have a lot of conditions applied. Turning off the condition colors in this case brings the editor back to a more normal speed.
Kathleen

Sorry, I was not very clear.

Raw Editor performance is one issue.

The main problem is editing ...

lacastle wrote:Time to submit a feature request! - https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

Good idea.
Thx!

Dave Lee wrote: I'm not sure what would be a viable alternative to using the Flare editor,

I am having good luck using dreamweaver as a wysiwig editor for flare topics. It is much faster for text editing (faster nav, faster open/save, etc).

lacastle wrote:Flare is noticeably faster if you are working off of a local drive (vs. a network). I keep my projects local to my computer and backup to the network.

Flare is fast.... using Flare is slow...

I can't seem to switch focus between the main panels via the kbd
In the doc I mentioned above, there are a lot of shortcuts to open/switch to various windows in the Flare UI. For example, to switch to the Project Organizer, use Ctrl+[ . For the Content Explorer, use Ctrl+J . For the File List, use ...

I am a long time Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Robohelp user.

I find the Flare editor to be fantastically SLOW.... (I have a smoking hot PC, fwiw)

- Slow to load / save / close pages
- Slow to navigate (to move down five lines, I need to down arrow TEN times!)

I have noticed that I just am a lot ...

RamonS wrote:It is highly discouraged to open a project file in a lower Flare version than the project was used with.

Madcap support has told me that the project files are identical across 6.1 and 7.0, and that both can be used against the same project.

This is solved.. .the batch option does the publish.... I was watching the wrong dir for the output.

Done, thx!

RamonS wrote:Why not open Flare 6.1 and then load the project within Flare?

Cause I am in and out of this stuff all day, and I like to automate things!

Hello!

I have a project imported from Robohelp X5. I compile it in Flare 6.1 to chm.

Using the command line Flare compiler, I get this error: "HHC5013: Error: URL reference in the TOC cannot be resolved: "Deleting_?"."

What does it mean and how can I fix it?

Full snippet from Flare compiler ...

The command line compiler rocks.

However, it needs to put more detail in the output.

Some things I am looking for:

1) at the top/beginning:

Flare v## Compiler

2) Some detail near the top: Output type: CHM // or whatever

3) Some details RE publishing:
Output file <chm file name> published to ...

I use a powershell script to do a text replace in the .htm file....

I do most of my work in Flare 7, but I need to do some things in v6.1.

If I just "execute" the project file, it always opens in v7.

How can I have a command line open of a project in v6.1 ?

Thanks!

Dave Lee wrote:You might also want to look at batch targets; you can build/publish multiple targets from one command line.

I am using only batch targets.... and I have multiple batch targets to build.... concurrently! <g>

Is it OK to do concurrent builds from multiple command prompts?

(To different targets)

Thanks!

Sorry to ask such a basic one....

I followed the docs, and have a batch file that builds everything from a cmd line (beautifully!).

But I need to build AND publish from a command line.

I build chms in Flare 6.1, and web help and pdf in Flare 7.0.

Any pointers?

TIA !!

FYI, Madcap support indicates that this is not possible in either 6.1 or 7.0....

I would still rebuild these faulty links. I've seen Flare get confused like this before. There's something about how the link is coded. Recreating the link should fix it.

Ack! What a pita!

(This is a decent size project.)

I am not going to bother.

Maybe I won't bother with PDF at all. I can ...

Nita Beck wrote:My guess is that the links are pointing to topics that are outside the Flare project.

Nay. The links are to relative urls within the project.

What to do next?

>> Is that what you intend for the PDF?

No. It is what we want in chm and web help.

PDF does not need em twice.

>> If not, perhaps some of the TOC entries should be conditioned only to appear in the Help output and not the PDF output.

Sounds fair... but how do I identify which topics are in the ...

Hello!

I have a project that migrated from robohelp X5 to Flare 6.1.

When I compile PDF, I get a lot of these messages:

Topic was included in the Flare TOC more than once. The content will still be exported to the output more than once.


Does this mean content is getting duplicated in the PDF ...