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For some reason, only when the XML and Text Editor tabs are missing and you're in source code mode, if you hit Ctrl-F2 the current document opens in a new window in XML Editor mode (with the tabs). I find this very handy when finding and replacing in the source code.

So, between the ctrl-` key and ...

When I click that button (the Toggle Show Files button) in Flare 10.1, nothing seems to happen at all (and the drop-down arrow does nothing either).

What am I doing wrong? Multiple file selection would be supremely useful indeed.

Flare to Word
> Forget it! Flare is completely inept with that sort of conversion.

Hey scd,

I actually have been having good success with my Word output lately. I just checked, and I converted a document to a solid-looking Google Docs file with a minimum of fuss, so with some setup (less than ...

Keep fighting the good fight on the Capture front. If MadCap makes Capture actually, you know, good as well as super-convenient, it would be a huge benefit to the product and my ability to recommend it to others.

So, in my PDF outputs, I noticed that my Helvetica 11 Point bold words have really spaced out letters sometimes. Also, headings tend to have lots of extra space added. Not only does this look funny, but when I convert PDF output to Word documents, the word output interprets these letter spaces as ...

As an update, for now I've decided to create a separate target and set of topics for the short term task because the content is different enough. Still not decided about the longer term one. I'll modify one topic using conditions and one using classed spans as a test. If I can do what I need to do ...

Patterns could be helpful.

What I'd like is the ability to have a label that is "always on" as opposed to needing to hover over it, or better yet, a keyboard command to cause all hovertext items to appear. This would also be useful when looking up a lot of image filepaths.

Hey, thanks for the replies.

Conditions were my first thought as well of course, but this would basically mean marking up the entire document extensively and I'm concerned about readability with conditions. Also, I'm red-green colorblind, so this adds significantly to my hesitancy to use new ...

Hello all,

I'm faced with a bit of a conundrum. I (apparently) need to develop very basic test scripts based off of user exercises in very short fashion (we're a very small shop), and was wondering if anyone had dealt with this before.

The only thing that I can think of is creating a new target ...

I know there's an option in Capture to use a separate format for Print and HTML output in a pretty "single-sourced" fashion, but if you're interested, someone (or some web help) more knowledgeable than I would have to provide you details.

Sorry, I was trying to generalize. By "alias" I meant "See" links. To be clearer, I have an index term named X, and I have two more terms that have "see links" as the Flare Help calls them, or index cross-reference links, that refer the user to index entry X when they look up term Y or term Z

So ...

Word has some advanced scripting abilities. It might be possible to use a Word macro (perhaps called automatically when the output is built) to do some fairly invisible cleanup.

That's my plan if I ever have the nightmare scenario of trying to get Word output working anyway.

So, this isn't life or death by any means, but it's rather annoying.

I have a project that I build several targets out of. One target which has a small subset of the overall topics is throwing two errors:

Linked index term "X" is not in the index, skipping the link "Alias of X 1"
Linked index ...

Wow, thanks Dave, that's really awesome. I'll be adding that to my project today for third level items.

What is browser support for this like? Does it work in the "real world" for webhelp, or what happens when it fails?

That being said, it would be (relatively) easy to create a separate "printer friendly" target, though, yes? The downside is that you'd have another Table of Contents and maybe another Stylesheet (I'm not sure) to maintain, which may or may not be worth it for you.

Disclaimer : This is all very Jr ...

Yeah, slideshows are nice and all, but I'm eagerly awaiting a potential "MadCap Capture" update.

In fairness, though, the responsive HTML 5 stuff was badly needed and was an amazing feature.

Final update: It's working. I made the margins bigger and then put in a classic "1 px tall white text" H1. Kludgy, but it works, and the title will be picked up for search results too.

If anyone has a better way of doing this, I'm all ears, but this meets all my needs for now, despite its lack of ...

Okay, so, I've made progress. I've gotten rid of the blank page and identified the problem with the page number.

1) The blank page was because the image was too big. For some reason, it added the blank page before the diagram as opposed to after it (?). Reducing the top and bottom margins solved ...

Thanks for the suggestions kwag, but no dice.

I edited my landscape page layout now so that the only thing in it is the one normal page (I don't do left-right, because no one prints this thing), and I still get the blank page.

The TOC is already set to increment number, and the page numbers work ...

Okay, so, I'm out of ideas at this point and need the cavalry. This is currently a PDF issue, but I'd like to eventually have this work for HTML5 output as well.

I have a large image that I want to insert into the regular document flow as a landscape image. I have a page layout just for this sort ...

Agreed. Quite happy overall with my transition to flare, but the Word output is a complete trainwreck.

If the Word output was better, PR for Flare with Management would be SO much easier. They do love their Microsoft Office.

Submitted a feature request to make this work using only mediums and not these incredibly well-developed workarounds.

Msquared, thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge on this topic! All of this knowledge was clearly learned at a great cost of time and annoyance.

I'm looking to move to drop-downs for my PDF and web content at some point in the near future, so I'd be very interested in your experiences if you can spare some time to share them!

My issue was caused due to the idiosyncracies of Capture and my desire to leave the images as their default names for now.

Capture would populate the "File location" window in the Screen Capture dialog with the last file location used. So, I had folders where I was storing different type of images ...

I was just trying to stay a little organized, but it seems like it just opens up a giant can of worms.

I'll consolidate to one folder and that should fix this issue. Rather frustrating, though...