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Hi there,

At my previous company, we came up with a pretty effective system for translating images that builds on some of the concepts that Ramon mentioned. This wouldn't work for all user interfaces, but it is worth sharing in case it helps somebody out:

Firstly, all of the text in the ...

Hi there,

You could try adding the code for a non-breaking hyphen into the variable manually and see if that fixes your issue. To do this:
Right click on the variable set and select Open With Internal Text Editor .
Replace the existing hyphens with ‑
Save your changes.
Build your output and ...

Hi there,

Having used Gary's services before, I would definitely recommend him.

Hi there,

If the destination is no longer required for any target, you can delete it from the Project Organizer > Destinations folder.

I'm clutching at straws now, but does the QA server have your preferred font installed? I'm thinking that if you have a font family hierarchy defined in your stylesheet, perhaps the QA server does not have the first font in the list installed, so it is falling back to the next available font which ...

Hi there,

I have experienced this before. In my case, using the html number (—) instead of — fixed the problem, although it isn't an ideal solution (especially as Flare is prone to convert — back to — when a topic is saved).

Hi there,

Here is MapCap's published customer list, which will give you an idea of some of the companies and industries that use Flare:

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/company/customerlist.aspx

Hi there,

How do you apply your page layouts? I had a similar issue in the past. In my case, I found that the Page Layout break type did not work, but the Chapter Layout break type did change the page layout.

However, this workaround does have the side effect of causing MiniTOCs to not show topics ...

Hi there,

I am pretty sure that file is an SQLite database file. You could install a free tool such as DB Browser for SQLite and take a look and see what is in this database.

Link:
http://sqlitebrowser.org/

This commonly happens if you paste content from one Flare project into another.

One way to quickly check whether the images are in the project is:

1. right click on the image, them select Image Properties.
2. When the image properties window displays, click OK. If the image is located outside of ...

Hi there,

HTTPS is the protocol that is used to connect to the webserver hosting your content, so it is not something that you would specifically configure in Flare. More information is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

I can confirm that our HTML5 Flare projects run fine when ...

Hi there,

Do you mean that the background should be the same, but the callouts will be different? If this difference is across Flare targets, you could condition the callouts. Alternatively, you could use variables for the callout text.

Hi there,

There will definitely be a way to achieve what you want to do. As somebody that is unfamiliar with Flare, I will give you a couple of tips to get you started:

Each output/buildable document is defined by a Flare target (*.fltar)
Targets contain a link to a Flare TOC - table of contents ...

At my previous company we did something similar too. After the documentation build was completed, we ran a script that converted the HTML5 parent folder into a .zip file. This .zip file was then packaged into a .dll with a method to extract the help, and the dll was built into the master installer ...

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Some additional tips:

If you place the above-mentioned code into a Macro called AutoOpen() the Macro will automatically run when the document is opened:
Sub AutoOpen()
On Error Resume Next
ActiveDocument.Styles("h1").ParagraphFormat.OutlineLevel = wdOutlineLevel1
ActiveDocument.Styles ...

Sorry Nita, but I think ChoccieMuffin's assumption is right in this instance... If you do not use Capture at all, but place a condition or file tag property on a non-XML file (PDF, image etc.) then a props file will be created to contain that information.

The structure of this props file is ...

SVN and Git are both free/cheap. Personally, I have used SVN for around ten years, and quite frankly, I can't imagine working without it.

Here's a tutorial/brief overview of SVN:
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/research/complete_inactive/iris4/iris40/developers/svntutorial/

One thing to note: I don't ...

Ignored warnings are warnings that you (or Flare by default for some warnings) have indicated that you do not want to be notified about.

These are defined at a global level from the Build tab of the Options window. You can override the settings from the Warnings tab for individual Flare targets if ...

Based on the description, it sounds like you want to go one folder level deeper. For example, if you have three targets (A,B and C), and you have already built each target, your output\username folder should contain sub-folders called A,B and C. If you wanted to distribute project A, you would only ...

Hi there,

There are a few options...

Add an empty topic to your TOC and manually set the link address to the full URL of your JIRA service desk. This is the easiest way because you do it all using Flare.
Use a Javascript redirector (the only advantage of this over the above implementation would ...

Hi Paula,

The error indicates that there is an invalid xml file somewhere. At a guess, it could be that something has gone wrong with one of your custom dictionaries.

You can find them here:
%APPDATA%\MadCap Software\Flare\Spelling Dictionaries

Hi there,

You can use the built-in Flare reports:

Project > Reports > Add Report File. The Used and Unused Bookmarks options should give you what you want.

The Content9.s3db file is a SQLite database file that is used by Flare. I think that the main purpose of this file is to speed up the turnaround time when you generate a report in Flare.

In theory, you could close your Flare project, delete the Analyzer folder (or better still back it up by moving ...

Hi there,

I don't have a lot of experience with PDF targets, but I would assume that the page-break-before:always; CSS declaration is supported. If this is supported, you could add something like this to your style sheet:

ChoccieMuffin wrote:Don't you have to have {/color} after your page number?

I would have thought so. I've added the extra tag to the above suggestion.