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Hi Peter

There are a couple of things you can do. You can save many of the Flare building blocks as templates, so topics, snippets, TOCs, and maybe other stuff. Flare then displays these templates automatically in the "add file" dialog box. The Flare Help file has a section on templates.

The other ...

Hi René

I don't think you can get an SVG into Capture. As you say, there is no import function, and SVG is not supported by File > Open . You need to convert them to e.g. PNG, then Insert Image with a capture open. They will then be available as objects and you can add them to a palette. But after ...

Hi René

It is definitely confusing. First save the capture in a format that supports transparency e.g PNG or GIF, then you can leave the slider at 0% and pick your transparent colour. Then it should work. I think the default format that Capture uses for unsaved captures is BMP, which doesn't ...

Too late for my last post: I found where palette files live. Not difficult really, they are in Documents > My Palettes I never really go looking in there for files. So we could share palettes. Maybe MadCap could host them, like skins and templates?

I'd still save the Snagit file as an editable format.

Peter, I agree, that is good time-saving workflow. I do the same with Inkscape for non-Flare callouts.

Something else I like about Snagit is that when you do a capture you can nudge the start and end capture points a pixel at a time using ...

Hi Nita, thanks, good point. Hopefully MadCap are planning some Capture improvements, including ESC.

Peter, thinking about your workflow, unless you are going to edit captures in Capture itself (e.g. add/update captions and other overlays), there is no real benefit of going through Capture. If you ...

Hi Peter,

I think that is a good practical approach. I agree that each tool excels in places where the other doesn't, and I also run Snagit for simple non-Flare stuff.

For step 2, couldn't you skip the "save to bitmap" part in Snagit and just use Capture to grab the native scene in Snagit ...

There doesn't seem to be. Although, if you do a basic capture (not a window), you can cancel straight out with a single click. I also like the Snagit ESC function. We should put in a feature request.

Some of them are starting to appear for Flare 10 Shawn (HTML5, Print, ...). Hopefully they'll all be up soon.

Thanks Shawn. Yeah, that was my concern: having to work with flat files. In my non-Flare workflow I use Inkscape to layer up bitmap images and vector callouts/overlays, and then export the png. I keep the svg source for future modifications, but it still means several steps when updating images ...

John, does that work if there are callouts in the image?

Hope it works for you, Peter. Don't let first impressions put you off. Test it with a Flare project using some fully pimped captures, don't draw conclusions just on the initial capture tools. Triumphal music is not earned cheaply.

I had Snagit before I started using Flare/Capture. I still use both tools and I love both. Snagit is fast, so I use it for everyday stuff - quick caps to put in emails or IMs.

But Capture is hidden treasure. I didn't like it at first - I think general consensus is that it is less intuitive than e.g ...

Excellent summary Shawn!

I did some quick, less excellent testing. I agree with your findings; the GDI+ switch doesn't seem to make a huge difference. Perhaps there are specific conditions in which is works best. It seems that the rendering in the XML editor faces some challenges, but I'm still ok ...

There's a setting in Options > XML Editor > Enable GDI+ Text Renderer

I think the default setting is "off" (possible performance issues). Does turning it on help? (Haven't been able to check this myself yet.)

As this option exists, I expect MadCap are aware that there might be display issues in ...

Just received here also This is my first year with MadCap. I see how it all works now. Looking forward to using 10.

And this MadCap youtube went up on Saturday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFutO2km3BQ

Mind, in my experience it usually takes over a day for the email to be sent out.

Thanks Dave. I appreciate that I am probably jumping the gun. I'll wait for the email. But then, my subscription renewal notice came nearly 3 months early

I am also curious about why there has not been any fanfare. I downloaded the trial version of 10, but I could not convert it with my subscription licence key. I hope there will be some more info once the MadCap people get into the office. I haven't used 10 yet but I'm looking forward to seeing the ...

Thanks Lisa. So do the generated classes only get generated after a link is visited?

Maybe I'm missing the point or not explaining what I am seeing properly.

I see references in the topics here that say that the mini TOC items use the base <a> style and pseuo classes. But it seems to me that these ...

3 years later... I have the same problem that Gamepro had. I am using the default Flare styles for my minitoc, but when I generate the output (HTML5) the links in the minitoc are paragraph colour (different to my specified link colours) with no hover colour. After I click a link, it then starts ...

No problem, glad to help a little bit. If you can post a mock-up of what you want to achieve, maybe we can have a go at it.

Hi, I tweaked the font and background settings for the Nav Items styles in the skin:
Are these the ones you need?

Tom

Thanks kwag_myers, I'll take a look.

Thanks for the tip Nita, I'll do that. The palette function is nice. I think I'll put in a feature request too.

Tom