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I noticed that the headers in the default "Advanced" template only goes up to h6, which is the exact cutoff where your heading styles stop working. I wonder if h7-9 aren't fully supported or are just buggier possible?

Hey,

Thanks for the warning. I did go with the disable option just due to the convenience of the Options > Disable dialog. I disabled everything that I didn't want to see in the Select window (except for main, "unclassed" styles like pre, fieldset, and the like) to avoid the sort of issue you're ...

Just a quick note from one beginner to another:

You might want to also check out TableStyles. They seem to be the "best practice" way to format tables from what I can gather, though the simple footer table probably doesn't require it. The in-Flare editor is a bit tricky (it sizes its windows really ...

Excellent, thanks for the feedback! Atomdocs, using image files in a central folder and copying them (and their corresponding props files) is an interesting idea, especially with the image synchronization option.

I am still hoping to keep most of my content for our main product in one project, but ...

Okay, so I have another general capture question. Unfortunately, I think I know the answer, but hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. Basically, can an image have more than one props file?

I got very excited by the notion of saving crop information for images. I was envisioning a situation where ...

Thanks for the excellent responses! It certainly seems like <p> tags are the way to go and making one or more p.img classes is a necessity.

My issue is basically that I want less spacing between a paragraph and an image than I do between two paragraphs. That was why I was making the p.before and p ...

Hi all, pesky newbie back again.

This time, I'm curious what people do for image containers. Do people put them in paragraphs, divs, or straight in the body? I know some people wrap them in a div for captioning and the like, but where do you put the actual <img> tag?

I'm trying to figure out how ...

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Thanks for the answer, Dave! I just watched DocGuy's capture webinar and between that and your answer I feel like I have a much better grasp on things.

Creating combinations of DPI settings for images (controlled using CSS I'm assuming, not Capture profiles) and different point size callouts ...

Huh! Yes, I see it in the Unclassified group now, and I just confirmed that it is not in the "alphabetical list" view. I had no idea that an attribute could show up in a group but not in the alphabetical listing. I wonder if that's a bug?

Thanks again. I'm much more likely to actually use mc-hidden ...

Ah, I was thinking it was probably a syntax issue, but I didn't see it in the advanced view of the stylesheet editor under the alphabetical listing of all attributes for some reason (maybe I just missed it?) and couldn't find a syntax example online anywhere in a quick search.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm brand new to Capture. Pretty soon, I'm going to be replacing all my imported word images with Capture images, and I really want to make sure I do it right. I've been reading the guides, but I still have many questions. I've set up a basic profile. If there is some sort of resource that ...

Well, at least based on Dave Lee's testing and that of another user, it seems to leave the style in the Stylesheet Editor, which seems pretty ideal to me: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=19486&p=102026&hilit=hidden#p102026

However, in my limited testing I've yet to get the mc ...

Oops, my mistake, I didn't recognize the SVN abbreviation for subversion. Things I learned!

Just to get a headstart for the more knowledgeable people, are you using any source control tools? That will probably be relevant.

Based on my admittedly limited knowledge, I don't think that editing the Copyright Page Layout will be as manual a process as you fear unless you use the same Copyright page in many different projects and you have no global project that all of your sub-projects are linked to. If your copyright ...

In another thread I saw that there's apparently an "mc-hidden" property which will remove the style from most of Flare's UI but not from the Stylesheet Editor. This seems ideal to me and I'll be using this to fix most of my woes.

I still fully support the ability to show the styles as plain text ...

Okay, so, based on what Dave is saying, I have a potentially working but extremely sub-optimal fix. Since no one seems to have any better ideas, I think I'll toss this out there.

Is it possible to keep your main ToC displaying H1-4, but then tweak the TOC 4 style so that it is as close to invisible ...

I'd agree with this one wholeheartedly. Being able to add a bookmark to a table of contents but not a table of contents link to the table of contents (ow the dumb) is pretty durn fundamental to sensible PDF output.

I'm signing up for this one too...

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What I'd like is a checkbox right next to the style menu (or the styles window) that allows you to quickly toggle on or off the style preview option. I have both the "enormous style" problem and the "negative margin" problem.

Better ...

Ooh, this is a great idea. I sense many hours adding divs in my near future, but it will make my PDF output much happier I think.

I agree that from the little I know the page break before and after avoid attributes is going to result in some pretty odd behavior, though. I'll just use inside:avoid.

Perhaps a stupid suggestion (I'm a newbie), but is this something a Footer or Decoration frame in a page layout could handle for PDF output?

Hello all,

Just as a follow-up on this, per the suggestions in this thread, I did end up using a mixture of headings, lists, and complex selectors.


Chapter is an h1 class, the name of a group of exercises is an H2 class, and the exercise titles are an h3 class. They all use autonumbering ...

To partially answer my own question, for now I just edited the First page of the Chapters.flpgl layout so that there is only one body frame and modified the size of the p.ChapNum class. It's working well enough, and now I can have Heading 1 Variable Heading 2 on the left next to my logo, and Heading ...

Thanks for your excellent information on this issue pdenchfield. I'd be 10x more insane right now if it wasn't for this post. Since I'm using 10.2 and getting similar results, I'm assuming that this has not yet been fixed?

This bug is very newbie unfriendly, since it occurs when trying to setup ...

Hey,

Thanks for the helpful response. I'll definitely try it this way and compare. The "crazy' bit in this context is actually mostly a compliment. I would have never considered adding Word as an extra conversion step. It goes against everything that I've experienced in the past that a three-step ...