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What I do for cross references for partial PDFs is I created two condition sets: "Doc Type" and "Not Doc Type." So, I have a Main Manual, and it has its own "Doc Type.Main Manual" condition and a "Not Doc Type.Not Main Manual" condition created for it. Every other document that I produce has its own ...

Response from Tech Help solved my issue. Posting in case it helps someone else. It was apparently unrelated to the update, though it happened at the same time as Flare 11 was released:

Flare 11 is not an update to Flare 10, it is an entirely independent application, Flare should not be searching ...

Flare seems to be hanging while trying to update. Is anyone else getting this error, or am I just lucky? I was able to 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 without any issues in the past, so I'm not sure what's changed.

I'm also contacting Support, but thought I'd check here also.

The only way I know of of launching Javascript sort of natively from Flare is covered in Dave Lee's excellent guide .

Shooting ignorantly off the hip, it seems that using that technique, you could probably adapt the default landing page into something more useful towards what you're trying to ...

Yes, you're understanding how my PDFs can be searched for anyway. All I can really share with you on the subject is my own experience. I don't know much about PDFs and search results specifically, other than where to find more info in the flare help.

In your example, a search for PDF would return ...

Glad you were able to bypass the PDF download issue.

The way I have my PDF downloads set up is a link in the page footer, much like in the Advanced HTML5 template. There is a "more PDF downloads" page, which includes all relevant PDFs, and that comes up in my search results just fine, for what it's ...

Oh god, I just got done with wrestling with this. Took most of a day. I'm willing to bet you have the " Mark of the Web " option selected in your target, which is causing this issue.

Having the Mark of the Web is, on the whole, good. The problem is that it prohibits links to "external" files, such ...

Well, I don't know the real answer. What I do is I just delete the new Styles1.css and click "remove the links" when Flare prompts me. Because each target has a default stylesheet, that's the last of the issue for me. A bit of a pain, but easy enough.

Usually, if a filename is too long, then you'll get an error that says that specifically. Sometimes the content explorer just misses fixing some links; I've yet to work out the details. Snippets are especially prone to breaking for me as well, so I don't think it's a file name length issue ...

DO NOT use the Long Path "Tool". It is suspected malware:

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I'd check to make sure that your ToC file isn't conditioned with one of the excluded conditions. More broadly, I'd make sure that none of the conditions that you are excluding are applied at the file or folder level where you're not expecting them to be. Keep in mind that if you apply a condition to ...

Using an expand-all button and drop-down headers (should) not interfere with your print output in any way. The Expand-all button appears only in the web skin, and the dropdowns are invisible to print output (I use them myself in a topic that I also distribute in PDF and Word).

Setting up complex selectors to handle indenting is also a good idea, and maybe even a better one. Personally speaking, I know that having drop down text areas can make using Divs for other purposes much more complicated.

Don't bookmark anchors automatically update? I was in the impression that they just automatically grabbed the nearby text. I don't think the in-screen display updates until you edit it and relink to the same place, but I thought that it automatically grabbed the correct information on output ...

I am no expert in this, but I can help a little maybe.

What output type are you creating, and what method are you currently using for your expanding text? If you are using drop down text, the Advanced HTML5 skin (not sure about basic; I've never used it) has a built-in "Expand All" button. You can ...

Apparently, words that appear only in the footer (created by a master page, as in the Advanced HTML5 Template) are included in searches. Normally, this is not a problem because much more relevant pages appear first, but if the user searches for a subject that is not heavily covered by the WebHelp ...

There is a native Flare Slideshow that was introduced in 10.0 also. That might be worth checking out, though it would not solve your problem.

In general, based on my primitive understanding, CSS code that is later in the stylesheet has higher priority.

It shouldn't be affecting things unless the page-break-before attribute of that same style happens to be explicitly set differently later in the template, but moving it to the end in ...

I keep on hoping to find an announcement for MadCap Flare 10.1: The Capture Update.

I can dream....

I'm right there with you in the "more love for Capture" bandwagon. It could be such a huge, gamge-changing asset for Flare if they just invested some time into it. As it is, it is still quite useful.

The inability to smoothly size images for Web output is irritating me beyond belief, currently. i'd ...

I saw a pretty good thread on this topic recently. It seems to be a difficult task, and the way to do it is with a script.

Hopefully that'll get you started anyway.

Wow, the fact that [%=MyVariableSet.MyVariable%] works is a godsend. My TOCs just became much happier. Thanks for sharing that tip!

Yeah, I think my company has disabled downloading from other people's dropbox accounts. Fortunately, the zip file method worked perfectly.

Thanks again for sharing; these look awesome! I'll definitely be using these.

I'm unable to download it from Dropbox. The issue might be my company's workplace IT policies though.

So, I currently generate Word and PDF output simultaneously, mostly for document review reasons. It's actually not all that much of a pain in the butt if you set things up properly.

In short, the best way that I found to handle Word's limitations with Page Layouts is to use Master Pages for your ...