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Hi Uwe,

I find it very strange however that Lingo pulls in files from the Flare project that are in my opinion in no way linked to the target I selected for the import. They are not in that target's TOC, they are not linked to by hyperlinks or cross refs,...

The only thing they have in common is ...

Hi Uwe,

Sorry for my late reply, have been involved in another project for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for providing your take. One thing I would like to mention is indeed that all languages will need to be published to the same webserver location for our online help system but I do see your point ...

Hello all,

I will be sending an XLIFF bundle out of Lingo to our translation agency to have our operator manual created in Flare translated to 12 languages.

At this point I have two questions:
I would like to send the XLIFF with just the source language and let the agency do all the rest. As I ...

Hi Uwe,

Yes, the objective is to release all languages in one go.

Updates only take place at major software releases, which is once a year.

thanks

regards

David

Hi everyone,

We are about to have some of our Flare outputs (PDF + Online Help) translated into 12 languages by an external company. I will be sending them a bundle XLIFF created in Lingo.

Decision I have to make now is whether to export the translated results into seperate Flare projects for each ...

Good day to all,

I was wondering whether it is a best practice to insert images as an entry in a TOC?

Some background: the UI of our machine software holds a large number of procedures that can be carried out by operators or service engineers.

If one of the steps calls for additional information ...

@Stuart: new images that I am adding are *.png but unfortunately there is quite a lot of "heritage" in all sorts of image formats. It is however a good suggestion that I will try out.
@Trent: I don't have that option ticked but will give it a go and look at the result.

The "resize" option does ...

I was informed by Madcap Support that at this point in time it is not possible to "make" Flare publish images in a certain target folder. As soon as I find the time I'll check if there is already a feature request for this and if necessary I will file one myself.

Hello all,

I'm using the thumbnail functionality (with pop-up) to avoid that the images take to much space on my HTML output pages. This is done from within the stylesheet (style img.large)

What happens now is that if I look at the image in output (or preview mode) it is blurry. When I click on it ...

Glad I'm not the only one trying to figure this one out!

I spoke to our developers again and indeed what they would like me to do is have Flare publish common images to a seperate folder at the same level as the output for the different language folders. They did however state that if Flare is not ...

Hello,

I'm currently building an online help system (html5) for our machine software UI to link to. All data for 3 machine platforms is stored in 1 single Flare project in which I use conditions and different targets to get the correct output.

For our new software release we will for the first ...

Thanks for the reply, I have been away for a while, hence my late answer.

I need to try out your suggestion to fully understand how it works, will post back with my results.

grtz

David

Hi Madeline,

Yes they are displayed, that is not the issue.

Maybe I didn't explain well, it is kind of hard to understand if you don't see the project in front of you.

The big chunck of data that I'm breaking into pieces (topics) has a H2 as title. The data underneath the H2 consistens of ...

Hi there,

In my project (imported from FM) I am breaking up large pieces of information in smaller topics. Output = PDF

Problem: when I start breaking up a large section, it usually starts with a H2 and directly underneath it a number of H3's each with their own paragraph of text. After breaking ...

@Devjoe: right, I didn't know that. Ran some more tests and they confirmed your theory. The idea is to get rid of the large topics and the bookmarks anyway and link directly to smaller topics, so the fact that Flare works this way is not a problem.

@ChoccieMuffin: I did play around with snippets a ...

Hello,

For my printed output in a project I am using a seperate TOC. Heading levels are determined within the topics by styles instead of by TOC depth.

Under 1 entry in that TOC I had about 10 sub-entries. All subentries are linked to bookmarks in one topic file (import legacy from FM). In that ...

Same issue with the image duplication in Flare 2017...
Any known workarounds that maybe could be carried out in batch? Duplicates take up a lot of space but relinking would take quite some time, which is not what we have lots of I'm afraid.

grtz

Dave

Hi there,

When I try to move files between content folders, it takes ages for Flare to complete the task.

What I do is select the files in the right side pane of the content explorer and then drag them to the target folder in the left side pane. Flare then correctly provides the info on the links ...

Hello,

In my Flare project I imported one small and one large Framemaker manual. Flare created for each of them a folder in the content explorer.

There is an overlap of content between both manuals, and I would like to make sure that a single source exists for those shared topics.

As a test I ...

Hi Louise,

I'm linking to the "default" file on the webserver where I'm publishing to. Even when I try the link locally on my machine after building the output (not yet publishing) it works.

I did however learn that it is important to use the correct syntax in the link.

The "default" file I'm ...

Hi Louise,

Sorry for my late reply.

I have also struggled wit this linking. Sometimes it seems to work and sometimes it doesn't.

Are you linking to the default.htm in the output folder locally on your PC or on the output destination e.g. on a webserver?

When you publish the target to a webserver ...

We decided to start using TFS for source control, but maybe the question remains valid for others...

Thank you both for your input.

I just tried it out and indeed the link between the two "home" topics of Top nav and Tripane works after I set it up the way you explained!

We are still in the development phase, trying stuff out, so this set up is probably not the final solution.

It is however my ...

Hello,

Is it possible to somehow exclude the home page of our HTML5 top nav target from Pulse?

There is no use seeing the feedback window on that page as we don't want people to provide feedback there and now the Pulse window is disturbing the overall look & feel of that page.

thanks!

regards ...

Hello,

I'm currently working on a project that will have two outputs: HTML5 for our customer support website and PDF.

It's my intention to use the Top nav skin for the main website and the Tripane skin for a specific part of the website (our product documentation), as that part is quite extensive ...