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I hope this is not too stupid a question, but up until yesterday, Flare would indicate any Changes in red in its wysiwyg screen.

I do have "Show Changes" checked in the Review Ribbon.

Where on earth do I rectify this?

Flare 2017 r3
I can be quite regularly using the Find and Replace dialog to look for specific content in the Source Code, when suddenly I find I can clear the "Find" field, but am unable to enter anything into it other than from the Clipboard.

Am I missing a trick somewhere?

What are you viewing the PDF in? In our case, post Windows 10 Fall update, we found Flare's View Result was now defaulting to MS Edge.

Have you opened the same file in Adobe Acrobat Reader itself?

Do you see the same issue when you print the document?

I have just repeated the test again. Viewed ...

Is it not practical to work in Points "pt"?

Hi Trent,

I've not been able to pin down exactly what the issue is here. And unfortunately not the time either.

Virtually all of the dialogs in the application have a blue border, hence I use the feature of SnagIt which let's me easily capture them.

I suspected initially in was an upgrade to ...

Yes, I did find a cause and a solution, but it took a lot of time, not to mention persistence. I was fortunate in that I could use on a separate system. This allowed me to do a gradual search and replace to establish which particular Style was causing the problem.

I'll quote what I hope are ...

One of the major reasons for selecting Flare is our need to produce alternative format output.

With PDFs, having a Hyperlinked Index is a huge plus, but sadly Word does not have this feature.

However, I came across a Word Add-in called "Index Linker" which converts Word's Index page numbers into ...

Thank you for such a quick reply. I think Terminology is one of the trickiest things I've had to deal with using Flare, is between word processing and desktop publishing

I searched Flare's Help for "create a div box", and not one of the 30 results had "div" in the Title. But lots had "text box".

I ...

I did look at Snippets, but cannot seem to find a way of adding a border and background colour.

The equivalent for a Word user would be to draw a text box, fill its background with a colour, then add the text.

In Flare, this suggests I add a frame with a border to a page, and then add the snippet ...

One of the somewhat frustrating issues in creating visually appealing print output, is obviously page layout, and often we find we have anything from say a quarter to a whole page which is blank.

A quite logical use of this blank space would be for example, to insert a range of relevant "Tips ...

I'm relieved not to be alone with PDF nasties :evil:

You wouldn't happen to be viewing in Edge by any chance, instead of say Adobe Reader, would you?

We had an issue, which nobody else here seemed to have had, where pages in PDFs, view on screen, would be totally blank. Thankfully we have Madcap ...

Flare 2017 r3. Windows 10 - fully up to date.
We've been using Flare almost since it was released. (A feature we especially like is Flare's ability to produce an Index in PDFs where the page numbers are links.)

Our project contains many screen shots of dialogs. For those we use SnagIt and save as ...

Oddly enough, I had that exact same error today.

What worked for me was to go to the Project Ribbon, and select "Clean Project"

Came across a nasty one which had us baffled.

After compiling a PDF and viewing the output on screen, we occasionally would come across a random blank page. It was as if it was being displayed with a white font.

MadCap could not replicate, until........ They saw it happen on my system.

However ...

It does indeed only apply to unordered lists, but would be possible for Flare's developers to deal with it.

However, when you are faced with a validation report which contains over 4,000 such messages - all flagged as an "Error", not a "Warning" - among a total of over 12,000 issues, one does get ...

As posted in another thread here, the response I reveived from MadCap two says ago on this and other HTML5 issues as:-

"Unfortunately, the upshot is that Flare 2013 r3 does not produce HTML5 output that validates with W3C."

We are 100% behind you readarding accessibility.

Without mentioning names, we have been authoring the Help structure for probably the world's most commonly used braille production software. Catering for over 140 different languages presents many challenges, and accessibility of various types of ...

I wish I knew! However, it is a bug in Flare's export to HTML5, and only occurs with unordered lists. Madcap have confirmed this.

But far more alarming is a statement from Madcap yesterday which says, " Unfortunately, the upshot is that Flare 2013 r3 does not produce HTML5 output that validates ...

Hi roboHAL,

Many thanks indeed for responding here. As you said, it is not proving the full information, but I can see other potential uses for the method you described so well.

I have to say that it is decidedly annoying that there is not a report which lists Topics WITHOUT a Meta Tag. These are ...

After many days of struggle, it appears we have found a bug in Flare's HTML5, when validated by the "Nu Validator" from W3C

Ordered Lists <ol> are no problem.

Unordered lists <ul> however result in the error, "Attribute "value" not allowed on element "li" at this point." (Bit of a shock when you ...

Many of Flare's Reports are extremely helpful in tidying up a project.

However, many have one major failing - or perhaps it's just me.

Many will repeat the same error when it occurs multiple times in the same Topic.

Surely having found the error in the first place, it could add the Line Number ...

OK. I have to admit I'm becoming defeated in re-arranging the CSS.
Has anyone any recommendations for simple software which will assist with this process?

Many thanks, this is excellent advice. I have to confess I had been thinking along similar lines, but frankly a little scared messing with such an important file.

We have Flare 2017 r3
We are attempting to clean up a project which has evolved over a number of years, and are at the point where we now use one main CSS overall, plus one for tables.
As we additionally require HTML5 output (for Apple Mac), it seems logical that one of our priorities should be to ...

Is there a particular way to enter "Combining Characters" in Flare's source?

The simplest explanation I can give are that these provide the means to for example add accents to characters in fonts such as Cyrillic.

We require to have many Unicode Tables in our project, and of course these combining ...