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by devjoe
Tue Nov 10, 2015 2:57 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Branding print output from an HTML5 help system
Replies: 2
Views: 1236

Re: Branding print output from an HTML5 help system

I just realized maybe you meant you wanted this in the output when users print your HTML5 help, not in a separate print version of the help.
I have a partial solution for this.
Create a master page. Delete all the proxies except the body.
Insert a div after body proxy, and insert your watermark ...
by devjoe
Tue Nov 10, 2015 2:34 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Branding print output from an HTML5 help system
Replies: 2
Views: 1236

Re: Branding print output from an HTML5 help system

Flare can absolutely do this.

First off, you will have to make or get your image. For a watermark, you'll want an image in some format which supports an alpha channel, so you can make it have a transparent background and partially transparent foreground. Since marketing will probably want to ...
by devjoe
Tue Nov 10, 2015 7:15 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: changing bullet icons depending on local hierarchy?
Replies: 5
Views: 2165

Re: changing bullet icons depending on local hierarchy?

If you are going to use these complex selectors you need to understand what each one does.
A > B is for a B element whose parent is an A element. Now maybe this is right (if you have paragraphs inside other paragraphs!) but it is certainly not what I expected from your description.
A B is for B ...
by devjoe
Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:24 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: changing bullet icons depending on local hierarchy?
Replies: 5
Views: 2165

Re: changing bullet icons depending on local hierarchy?

This is tough when you aren't using ul tags to contain the lists, because you use the hierarchy information which makes it so easy to fix this in nested lists using CSS.

One way you could do it is to define the default p.bullet1 and p.bullet2 for the case where there is no p.bullet, and then use ...
by devjoe
Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:03 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: divs, float, image placement, and text wrapping
Replies: 8
Views: 5650

Re: divs, float, image placement, and text wrapping

Well, it looks like you have right float working in your screen shot. Be aware that right float does not put it before any other content. If you wanted the right float to appear even with the Farm Layer heading, the floating element needs to occur before the Farm Layer heading in the document.

You ...
by devjoe
Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:27 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Folder Displays Topic Twice?
Replies: 1
Views: 776

Re: Folder Displays Topic Twice?

I'm confused about what you are trying to do.

If you want the same topic to appear at different places in the TOC in different outputs, you can indeed use conditional text on the TOC entries to do the job. You will need to make two TOC entries in the two locations where the topic is to appear, and ...
by devjoe
Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:10 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Build Failed: The "too long" error
Replies: 6
Views: 6314

Re: Build Failed: The "too long" error

In my experience this happens when the name of a file or folder within the project is so long that when Flare attempts to copy it into the output folder, the file path for the copy exceeds the Windows limit of 260 characters for a file path. This doesn't happen for your PDF output because there you ...
by devjoe
Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:29 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Is there a guide to editing custom skins to create my own?
Replies: 11
Views: 7537

Re: Is there a guide to editing custom skins to create my ow

Actually, you can move the search bar, but you have to add CSS into the skin, because the search bar is part of the skin.
Following tips from this forum, I created skin.css in my Content folder containing, among other things:
div.search-bar
{
position: fixed;
top: 19px;
}

(In my help, we ...
by devjoe
Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:16 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Conditions
Replies: 3
Views: 1404

Re: Conditions

I'm worried about the fact that you have hundreds of conditions. If you really have hundreds of different outputs (targets), then you probably need them, though I don't know how you're keeping track of what's what while trying to define the content. But if you have, say, 8 outputs, you shouldn't be ...
by devjoe
Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:57 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Globally Replacing a Font in Project + Unicode Entry
Replies: 2
Views: 1268

Re: Globally Replacing a Font in Project + Unicode Entry

Right-click your CSS file in the Content Explorer and Open with | Internal Text Editor. Then you can use the Quick Replace tool from the ribbon to replace Arial with the longer font name. You will probably want to replace "Arial," and "Arial;" with the longer name and the same following punctuation ...
by devjoe
Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:28 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Is Javascript executed when pubilshing to PDF?
Replies: 10
Views: 7536

Re: Is Javascript executed when pubilshing to PDF?

The PDFs I generated from Flare 10 have equations rendered as text. They do show as images in the help outputs, though (but as stated, with antialiasing which makes them look reasonably nice).
by devjoe
Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:07 am
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Using Xenu to check for broken links in Flare output
Replies: 3
Views: 3240

Re: Using Xenu to check for broken links in Flare output

The problems with using Analyzer to check links are:
  • If you have links across merged projects, Analyzer reports all of those as bad because it doesn't see the other project
  • If you have conditionally excluded topics, Analyzer doesn't detect if there are non-excluded links to the excluded topics.
by devjoe
Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:17 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Table breaking incorrectly in pdf
Replies: 1
Views: 1054

Re: Table breaking incorrectly in pdf

I have

Code: Select all

tr
{
	page-break-inside: avoid;
}
in my CSS which I think does what you want.
by devjoe
Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:10 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Users require multiple outputs
Replies: 9
Views: 2489

Re: Users require multiple outputs

It sounds like what you want is run-time merging. This is available only on the server-based outputs for HTML5 and WebHelp Plus . For this to work, you'd have a small shell help system (the master) and each installed product or add-on would install its piece in the automerge folder. These would then ...
by devjoe
Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:35 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: HTML 5 output - "expand all" avoid double klick
Replies: 5
Views: 2808

Re: HTML 5 output - "expand all" avoid double klick

Is there any solution for this problem? I am seeing it with my HTML5 output from Flare 10.2. After Expanding All in one topic, then navigating to another topic which has dropdowns, the Expand All button is still in Collapse All mode, and has to be clicked twice to Expand All.
by devjoe
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:57 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Search.mcsdb.gif & Search.s3db.gif
Replies: 6
Views: 3568

Search.mcsdb.gif & Search.s3db.gif

I'm building a large merged HTML5 project. When I build the master project, in the Subsystems/projectname/Data/Search.mcsdbf/ folder there are two files, Search.s3db.gif and Search.mcsdb.gif - but only in the subsystems that were updated in that build. This file doesn't exist in the output folders ...
by devjoe
Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:34 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Suppressing error messages
Replies: 0
Views: 741

Suppressing error messages

Is there a way to suppress error messages in the build report?

I am building an HTML5 help system with multiple merged projects and links between the merged projects. The help for merging projects suggests that these are links to an external file , which depend on the structure that the output is ...