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I forgot to say, I filed a report at the time. It was accepted as bug report #30612. Keep your eyes peeled for the Capture update. I hope it is soon, and I hope this gets fixed.

Rob Hollinger says that an update to Capture is on the way, but I don't know when it is due or what is in the update.

This is a peer-to-peer forum, so the best way of getting MadCap's attention is a feature request:

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback ... quest.aspx

Hi Robin

Just in case the issue is screen real estate, not font size, you can close one or both of the side panels in Flare - the main window (editor) automatically expands to fill the space. You can then save your layout using the Window tab in the ribbon.

Steve, are "please explains" a government initiative, or a consumer thing? Is the government required to respond? Sounds good, if they are transparent.

If I were a creative pro, I'd probably subscribe to CC because I would make my income directly from it. But if I were a creative pro in the UK, I'd ...

I am through with Adobe. Their customer service and website ux are abysmal. Great software, but their geo-locked, two-tier pricing is indefensible. Now I run Flare, Foxit, Inkscape, and Corel. Very happy.

Concerning 0.2px, is it possible to display that on a screen? I thought a pixel was the smallest display element. I assume that Flare indicates 0px because it knows it can't represent 0.2px on the screen, so it rounds it - to let you know the actual value that will be used.

Hi, are you creating the image using the New From Profile function?

If so, that method doesn't allow crop, it only lets you change the canvas size, as you have discovered. But it won't let you reduce the canvas size below the dimensions of any objects you have placed. As an alternative, you can ...

More power to you, Shawn. You certainly put Flare through its paces, and you are balanced in your views. I enjoy reading your posts.

I don't actually use Flare for paid work. I bought my own licence and I am teaching myself, to keep up with techcomm developments (freelancer). From my point of view ...

Hi Shawn, ok, I see.

It should work if you are only ever editing the external files, and then syncing to the project files. If you edit a project file, you can of course skip syncing back to the external file. (But I agree that it is a pain to uncheck the boxes in the sync dialog if there are a lot ...

Hi MLT - understood. And of course, this is an issue with Capture. Using 125% is your prerogative, and Capture should support that (but it doesn't). Rob Hollinger confirms that there is an update to Capture scheduled, but I don't know when it will be available, or whether it will fix this issue ...

If the source image is updated, Flare's file sync won't work for any image edited in Capture. Flare is not aware of those Capture changes.

Hi Shawn, there are a couple of ways to get sync working properly with Flare/Capture.

Method 1
1. Edit the external image in Capture and add objects as ...

Did you just guess or did you learn this somewhere...

Good old guessing and trial and error :) I've played around with the arrow before though, so I had an idea of what it can do. It is not intuitive though, and I still don't really know what some of the controls do. I test a setting by putting ...

Hi Shawn.

I am also amazed at Capture's amazing green arrow. I managed to make one:

arrow.jpg

It's not quite as nice as your example, and you have to put up with Capture's non-dithered drop shadow. But at least you should be able to bend the arrow to your will :)

To set the arrow up, use the ...

I agree Paul - and availalbe online would be good

In the meantime, have you seen Paul Pehrson's (doc_guy) Capture webinar? There's a recording on the MadCap website:

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/si ... 9064590696

Hi MLT, welcome to the forum.

Just to confirm, is your screen set to more than 100%? I know you said that you can't reduce it, but it helps to clarify the situation.

As a workaround, are you able to use the full-screen or window hot-key capture modes? (You can also select them from the File > New ...

Good for you Shawn! After all issues we have been discussing, I thought you were still getting frustrated by Capture.

Despite it's weaknesses, I am a big fan of Capture. I think you have summed up the secret sauce:

I make an update to an image, save it, and presto, it instantly updates in my ...

Hi Shawn, I noticed that too. Sorry that it didn't work out. As Paul says, Capture is a capture tool, not an image editing suite. I have tried to resist that, and make Capture work harder, but it is frustrating when it fails like this. I really don't think it is just down to an intentionally limited ...

Paul, I agree, if Shawn's process is fully automated, triggered by the script image dump, then Capture isn't going to get near that. I was hoping to get a little closer and clear some of the frustration that Shawn has. From what I see in this discussion, Shawn might be doing some manual editing ...

Well, the great thing about participating on this forum is that it causes us to learn new things - and I just have!

Please ignore my previous post. I have just learned about the Replace function in Capture.

Replace actually does precisley what I was trying to do with layers, but it is of course ...

Hi Shawn and Paul - this is a good discussion.

Shawn, I do understand your pain when you compare your Flare/Capture update situation to e.g. FrameMaker. I am also an ex-Framer.

The deal-breaker is that you can't merge your new (script-generated) screenshots with existing, already annotated images ...

Hi Shawn

Well, I have been able to work through your process and get sync to work as expected: after editing the external file, I hit Synchronize Files and the image in my topic updates to show the external edit. (However - it is only visible in Web Layout. If I switch to Print Layout, the edit is ...

Thanks Paul, will do!

Capture integration with Flare is brilliant. I'd love to see Capture get fit-for-purpose design and edit tools to support that.

This is certainly odd, but unfortunately Capture does lack precision in many aspects. Not being able to constrain lines/pointers to 90/45 degrees drives me nuts. At the same time, the amount of precision that you can put into sculpting a big green bendy arrow object is breathtaking (and useless ...

If you are using unlinked books with PDF output, you can Inject headings for unlinked books in TOC on the Advanced tab of the PDF target options. Does that work?

Hi Shawn

You can do this in Capture using the Image Effects tab of the File Properties dialog box.

Adjust either the Background Scale setting, or the Scale Background To setting.

Your aim is to resize the base image (in Capture, "background" = your base screenshot) so that it fits on your page (I ...