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It's now a couple of weeks later, and I'm experimenting with Flare 8.

I created a skin that I associated with HTML5.

I opened it in HTML5 Skin Editor, went to the Styles tab, selected TocEntry from the Styles list.

In the Properties pane, immediately to the right of the Styles list, I have ...

Using Flare 7.2 up to last week, and now Flare 8 on Windows 7.

When I write a document in some authoring tool, and generate PDF output, I can choose to include our corporate font, so that customers see the document as I wrote it. Or, I can "subset" the chosen font, which includes that font as part ...

Your explanations didn't make a lot of sense to me, because the difference between a breadcrumbs sequence that shows up properly and one that doesn't is a matter of going down a level in the path. And when I'd go deeper, it was often an element that was previously visible (when the same path was ...

No similar problem in Windows.

Not using Flare with source control.

We do have source control, but it's not used that way.
I just check in a copy of my project directory occasionally, as a form of backup.
I never check anything out of MKS, and Flare doesn't know it exists.


Yes, I've met many ...

I have Flare 7.2, on Windows 7.
I have Bronze Maintenance.

What's the trick for acquiring Flare 8, please?

I went to the site and clicked a big "DOWNLOAD" button, but all it did was throw a pop-up, trolling for addresses. My experience of that pop-up, after more than an hour-and-a-half this ...

Flare 7.2 on Windows 7 Pro.

Output is regular WebHelp.

I changed the appearance of my breadcrumbs proxy and breadcrumbs link styles from charcoal-gray text on white to orange text on charcoal. (Hey, don't look at me like that - a slightly de-saturated orange is one of our corporate branding colors ...

After a lot of unproductive nastiness, I rebooted, re-started Flare, and it let me do the change that I wanted - after quietly refusing for several hours over three days. I don't know what changed, but the dialog in "Skin Editor > Styles > TocEntry Properties > TocIcons " finally deigned to accept ...

This sounds like a simplistic question, with a simple answer, but I'm having the devil of a time nailing down where the SOURCE copy of that file lives. After years with the closed and open books for ToC groups and the question-mark page as the icon for individual topics, our corporate graphics folk ...

I have Flare 7.2 on Windows 7 Pro.

Are there, perhaps, practices that I should be aware of (and maybe avoid) that slow down Flare?

My projects are not huge.

When I click a folder in Content Explorer, to move from one folder list to another (with at most a few hundred files in either folder ...

Other than the problems of broken links that reported (in the output log) as those /~/~/~/filename1.htm/fileName2.htm, I don't recall what the other problems might have been. I'm sure it's back in the archive of these forums from 2007 or earlier. Or maybe it's in the RH forums from even earlier. I ...

PPS: (replying to myself...) Has anybody else had a problem taking screencaps of Flare in action?
My photo in the first message was taken after both Windows 7 Pro "Snipping Tool" and [Ctrl][Shift][Print] captured the Flare screen with blanks in some of the frames, notably the Content Explorer and ...

Before Flare, I had RoboHelp for a while. I switched to Flare sometime around its first version.

Our command-line interface (yes, those still exist) has many commands that are a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Some time ago, possibly even in the RH days, I found I was having problems due ...

I was doing that for a while, but found it stirred up a lot of odd problems, especially when I want to insert comments to users among the "CLI" elements.

Now that thing with the snippets is a neat idea.

I'll look further in the uses and abuses of complex selectors, too.

Well... it does and it doesn't. Thanks.

Lacking a better way to do it (suggestions?) I'm using tables to format simulated command-line output.

For verisimilitude, it needs to be in monospaced font. All other contents of all other tables are in my normal corporate proportionally-spaced font for ...

I have a table style that I apply when I want to format text in a certain way - basically, a table with no visible outlines, which allows me to format content in columns.

Sometimes, that content should be the output of a shell command-line command, where I want the text to be mono-spaced to ...

JudyH said:
"It turned out that the index (keyword) entry had been placed between the MadCap:dropDownHead open tag and the MadCap:DropDownBody open tag. This was apparent only in the text editor. I moved the keyword code outside of the drop-down code, which resolved the compile error."

But, but ...

Normally, I suppose I would, but I don't use the feature (just tried it when I spotted it here, to see what it was about), and my boss and other reviewers don't even have Flare licenses.

Whenever I want somebody to review a new or modified WebHelp page, I laboriously Publish the project, copy the ...

I tried this just ten minutes ago, and the wizard has been "Looking up exchange server from Active Directory..." for about ten minutes now. I think it's stuck.

I have Outlook 2007, and NOT 2010.
Here at my employer, we use Exchange Server 2007 as well... not 2010.

So, whoever is looking at the ...

I got to this thread - thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about "Show Files" - after failing to move ONE file from the Content directory to a sub-directory.

I tried dragging, but my Content directory was too large, and the Content Explorer doesn't scroll when you drag a file. But before I came ...

Here is where I think the typed text went, after my insertion point jumped, unbidden. Scroll to see the yellow highlight and red "circles".

Flare_hidden_stray_text_viewed-in-browser.PNG

That's the published output, viewed in a browser.

But here (below) is what it looks like in the Flare ...

I'd be obliged if some other Flare users would try a little test, to see if I'm the only one....

- create a topic with several paragraphs - enough to need scrolling,
- create/insert some expanding text in one of those paragraphs (I think it works with Drop-down as well, but it's reliable with ...

Any particular "variables"? Or do you mean just the vagaries of the universe?

Which browsers (and versions) are you using that a search containing underscore works for you? On what platform (OS and version)?

I'm using most-current Chrome, and IE 9 on Windows 7. My boss is using earlier IE and ...

My WebHelp for our products has literally thousands of instances of functions and calls and parameters, with names like CA_SetExtendedTPV, CK_ULONG ulTpv, EXT_TPV_FORCE_RSA_BLINDING; etc.

I have received complaints that it is not possible to search items with underscores.
As you can imagine, that ...

I sometimes get the "Object reference not set..." error when selecting.

I normally avoid importing from any other program. I run everything through Notepad first to have incoming material be as "vanilla" as humanly (and machinely) possible.

One thing that I do in many places is write a numbered ...