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"Solved" my problem by using conditional text. First reference is normal; subsequent references to the same thing are "real" for WebOnly output, but fake for PrintOnly output.
Requires manual management, but does the trick... in my case, anyway.
-Niels

I certainly need it, primarily to get rid of a pageful of repreated footnotes in PDF.

Have submitted feature request.

BTW: How come you get a feature request number? I don't...

Hi,
Just a tip to y'all if you are having the issue I was having: Paragraphs formatted with the p.note style would overlap (or rather: underlap!) the sideContent menu in my TopNav output:
Underlapping.png
The text wrapped, but the note box did not.
To solve this, I simply added the following ...

OK, so you use text in PDF, and images in Web. I do the exact opposite...

In response to the original post.
I have implemented a solution, in which I

Enter equations directly using LaTex, but enclosed in \( )\ for inline and \[ ]\ for paragraph equations - e.g. \( {A}_{delta} = {A}_{new} - {A}_{executed} \)
For Web, MathJax typesets this online, on-the-fly (no wait ...

Sure you can. Open the variable set, and click button no. 2 in the local toolbar. This is called "Add Date/Time variable".
Give it a name such as CurrentYear, and enter the following in the Definition field:
yyyy
Flare shows a preview of the result at you type.
You can choose if you want the year ...

Thanks, Dave, that's a great idea! I added
nav, .button-group-container-left {
display: none !important;
}

-to prevent the menu, search bar and the row of buttons from printing, while I was at it.

So my only remaining problem is the thumbnail graphics, which I've logged at MadCap.

:madcap ...

Yeah, I just renamed the section in the stylesheet to and associated that with the pdf target.
Brillant, H1 issue solved. Thanks!

Hi,

So you're saying that it is possible to configure the PDF generation to use another medium than Print? That sounds interesting. How do I do that?
EDIT: I found the place, obvious enough, never thought I could use that. But I will, thanks for the pointer.

There is an Expand/Collapse button by ...

+1!

Hi,
Using Flare 11 html5 Top Navigation.
When I want to print a page from the online help, and press Ctrl+P or the Print icon, then the print engine uses the print media specification. That means that the print will look more or less like the PDF.
HOWEVER, there are some shortcomings:
I use ...

I never had this problem. Running 11.01 on 64-bit Windows 8.1.

-Niels

And if you're wondering how to add a tooltip to your new button, here's one way:
In the toolbar script, add the following:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('button.feedback-button').prop('title', 'Feedback to Edlund');
});
-where feedback-button is the class name of the button (inspect your ...

Here's a feature I'd like to see in the topnav web output:
Click a menu item (topic) in the Side menu.
The menu item not only turns Bold, but it also sports a small PDF icon or Print icon.
Click the icon, and a PDF is generated or a print job created for the current topic plus all topics below this ...

Hi,

Not sure about this. When you say menu skin, you are talking about the Side Menu - yes?
And linking the menu proxy to the correct menu - you mean you have linked to the correct TOC? Try setting it to Default.

And it sounds like there's a hardcoded path to Resources somewhere.

Not much help ...

@Nita:
I create a topic called Indexfile.htm (file name doesn't matter of course). It is not part of the TOC, even though it could be, but it should be marked with a Web Only condition.
In the topic, I:
Add the heading ("Index").
Add an output index proxy.
And then I add the script at the end.

I ...

Awr...
(blush)
Thanks! As for the demo link - it's still WIP and behind a firewall, but I've got a screenshot:
indexletters.png
I ended up placing it to the far left and vertically; otherwise it ruined the layout on an iPad/smartphone.
I nicked the rounded corners from the Example style (or ...

Hi,
For those who add an index to the html5 help (top navigation or otherwise), I've written a small script that adds an index letter bar at the top of the index page - you could call it an "index header proxy".
<script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/var letter="", result="";
$("h1").before ...

Thanks - yes, I could do that. However, I like the idea of an image better - also with a view to localization.
I have added a suggestion on the (undoubtedly very long) suggestion list...
-Niels

Hi,
I'd like to add a "click to enlarge" icon to the small thumbnail images. I've tried using css to resolve this, but of course background images do not show on top of images...
Is there anyone who has managed to do something like this, or should I file an enhancement request at madcap? I mean ...

Like!
I might add that you can style the conditions as a whole in the style sheet editor so they are for instance yellow in the XML Editor, but this does not make it through to the html5 output.
Thanks for this solution.
-Niels

Hi,
I have two destinations for my web output: localhost and a public server.
On localhost, the output tended to deteriorate over time. After publishing, things looked fine. But the day after, for instance, or just some hours later, the front page (the new Flare 11 frameless front page) was broken ...

Isn't it a bit unnecessary to use a script to insert a toolbar button?

Hi,
You're absolutely right... I was not aware of that toolbar-building feature! I had considered what the "Add new style" button in the toolbar skin setup pane actually did... I thought it was to do with styles, not buttons ...

Hi Nita,
You were exactly right. I needed to create another layout file. And that's great, really, because that lets me apply columns to a whole section of the manual (such as a gloassary), and just specify First on the first page. It will then pick Left and Right from the same, "columned" file ...

Hi,

For Flare 11, I've added the following toolbar script (in the TopicToolBar skin):

$(document).ready(function(){
var path = window.location.pathname;
var filename = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf("Content/"));
var imgurl = (filename.split("/").length - 1) == 2 ? "../Resources/Images/Footer ...