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Sorry, just realized I repeated what someone else said. Ignore this.

Can anybody help me with these things that Flare help doesn't seem very helpful about?

I'm trying to make just the page numbers appear blue in the TOC and index of the PDF output, so it's clear that they are clickable links. For the TOC, I'd also be happy if I could make just the topic titles ...

My first recommendation is to view the paragraph style of your CSS and see what the background-position property is. If it's blank, try typing in "left top".

Thanks. That is the first thing I did, though.
I also tried specifying a size for the background in a text editor, but that doesn't make a ...

I have a paragraph style that needs a note icon. For a long time, it had a placeholder icon that was a .png image. The .png icon was a background image lived in the top left of the paragraph block, and all was well, except that the icon was ugly.
Luckily, my company has just hired a designer, who ...

You're making sense, Doc Guy. The original design had the PDF looking so completely different from the HTML5 help that I was pretty much creating 2 style sheets anyway, rather than one style sheet with exceptions. However, they seem to be converging. I might move style information to the default ...

Well, yeah, actually, things weren't working when I used the non-print stylesheet. Rather than fuss with moving style information from non-print to default, I changed "non-print" to "screen" in a text editor, changed the output type to "screen" in my target, and things worked fine. Your way would ...

Thank you so much, doc_guy!
That works. Apparently I over-think things sometimes.

I'm using 10, doc-guy. I suspect that I am making an error with the syntax, because I am still on a steep learning curve with CSS. I'm trying to use the code on slide 27 from this recent Flare webinar http://assets.madcapsoftware.com/webinar/Presentation_ContentAuthoringforResponsiveDesign.pdf ...

I just ran into the same problem today, so I am giving this topic a bump to see if anyone has learned anything about it in the meantime.

I've been trying to figure out how to add chapter numbers to the TOC for my PDF output. Ideally this should happen automatically, because it's a long document in which chapters get split/merged/rearranged fairly often. I don't want to have to manually re-number dozens of chapters, because it's a ...

I'm in the same boat as you, btwrites. I have two versions of a product to document for multiple user types. As it is, we publish many versions of the documentation, and customers have to go down the list and figure out which one they need. It's a bit clunky, but I don't see a better solution right ...

You're welcome. I bet there's a way to change something somewhere so you don't have to keep making the corner pointy every time you compile. (I assume the file I edited will get overwritten next time I compile, anyway, since it's in the output folder.)
I just don't know what it would be off the top ...

I don't know if there's a way that you can do this in flare, but you can do it by directly editing one of the stylesheets in your output.
Go into your HTML5 output folder, then skins>default>stylesheets
Open styles

Find the place where it says

html.left-layout #contentBody
{
-webkit-border ...

Does anybody know whether there are differences in equation editor between Flare 9.1 and 10, in terms of what Java versions one has to use to run it?

For what it's worth, I had the same problem as michaelgd. Specifying no padding in my <ul> and <ol> styles (like crdmerge shows) did indeed get rid of the extra space in front of lists in my HTML5 output. Also, specifying a disc for the bullet got me nice normal round bullets. Thanks!
(I didn't have ...

What about using Adobe Acrobat to add a bookmark to the file after you generate the PDF using Flare?

Ah. You two have helped me to fix it. Thank you!

My problem was that I entered "never" in page-break-after for the Madcap:dropDownHead style, not realizing that it wasn't a valid option and Flare would let me put anything there and save it, whether it was valid or not. Guess what? I can save my ...

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If you have access to Acrobat Pro, can you reduce the file size with it? I can't recall the exact name of the function, but I know there's some function in Acrobat with which one can reduce file size.

It's called "Create Optimized PDF." This link has a concise ...

Where I have drop-down headers in the HTML5 help, I have reasonably innocuous headings in the PDF. Looks great except for one thing: I can't figure out how to set it so that there is never a page break immediately after one of these headings that is a drop-down heading in the webhelp.

Surely this ...