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Ok thanks, I'll give that a shot.

cheers

I'd like to link to a webhelp system (on our web server) from a customer's site, using javascript, so I can control the appearance of the browser window (i.e. deactivate default browser settings like toolbars, address bar etc.)

Apparently this involves launching using some javascript that Flare ...

Bump. I'm having trouble getting this to work (I don't know javascript).

Has anyone else done this?

cheers
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I did go with snippets in the end. It's made the search results & the indexing a bit confusing, but I guess there's no way around that. Thanks for the tips guys

-E

Thanks Lisa.

Paul, yes I made those icons - I can send you the skin if you pm me your email address.

Lisa, thanks for the tip but the table is about 2.5 pages long, trying to fit it on 1 page isn't what I want to do. Flare is breaking the table anyway, because it has to, but it insists on pushing it to the next page first. I think it's just missing some smarts when it comes to its page breaking ...

Bump - I'd like to know how to do this too...

Andrew, I think you misunderstood the problem. I'm getting the same thing - I have an orphaned heading because my table is longer than 1 page, so the table is being pushed onto the next page, leaving a blank page under the heading.

I would rather the table started directly after the heading, and ...

Does anyone know how to do this? I'd like 1 at the top left and one at the top right, linking to different targets.

As you can see from the attachment, I have an image strip for the toolbar that splits the toolbar into 2 horizontal slices.

The image at the right has transparent space added to the ...

Awesome, thanks Dave

Is there a way to link a toc entry to another help system, i.e. by specifying a URL, without actually merging the content?

I'd like a 'master help' system from which users can access the various product help systems, but I don't want to have to regenerate the master help whenever the sub-projects ...

I've got some table that contain xml configuration examples. Some of these example contain underscore characters (e.g. CLOCK_SYNCMODE_SCLK_IN).

Flare is wrapping these inside tables in the pdf output.

Does anyone know how I could prevent this from happening?

I've tried using white-space: nowrap ...

Thanks Craig, I'll give that a shot

So in my skin I would change:

<StyleClass
Name="Logo">
<Properties>
<Property
Name="Icon">url('Audinate_logo_52deep_v2.png')</Property>
<Property
Name="OnClick">window.open("http://www.audinate.com");</Property>
</Properties>
</StyleClass>


to:

<StyleClass
Name="Logo">
<Properties ...

I have some photographs of circuit boards, which I've dropped into Illustrator as pngs, and labelled using vector arrows & text etc.

I'm trying to get good resolution into Flare PDF output. Currently I'm exporting pngs from Illustrator, but to get good resolution (300dpi), the file sizes are huge ...

Thanks - unfortunately when they navigate to a search result that appears in more than 1 place, they'll more than likely find themselves in the wrong section, which would throw off their context & would be confusing. No way around that though I guess...

Yep that's fixed it, thanks very much.

I was doing it manually, and I didn't see the 'do not use spaces' note (probably due to aforementioned hangover) but yes I think it's slightly bizarre that Flare haven't tweaked that dialog to reject spaces.

But I'm up & running now anyway.

note - it shows fine in the editor (Table 1 shows power, ground and reset pins available on the module connector.)

this is the css for the xref:

MadCap|xref.caption
{
color: #cc0033;
mc-format: '{paranumonly}';
}

I have inserted xrefs to autonumbered table and image captions, using:

1. insert bookmark at end of target para
2. insert xref with mc-format {paranumonly} linked to the relevant bookmark

In some cases they are showing in the output (webhelp & pdf), some cases not (in either output).

This one ...

Some of both. I know I could make a list bullet using a link icon, but sometimes the links are inline.

how bizarre.

I've tried display=inline-block, but that doesn't help.

Anyone know how to add an icon to a hyperlink style?

I've created a new class for <a> and added a background image, but it's not showing. is this because it's an inline element?

I'm pretty sure this is a consistent issue, so I've submitted it as a bug anyway.

It appears it corrects the tablestyles css link, but not the main stylesheet link:

<link href="resources/tablestyles/audinatetables1.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="SkinSupport/MadCap.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="Resources/stylesheets/audinate1.css" rel="stylesheet" />