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I'm a daily Flare user, and I've got a list of about 7 or 8 suggestions (bug fixes or enhancement suggestions) for things that would make my Flare-work-life easier. My guess is that at least some of these issues are plaguing other users as well.

I know I can submit a bug or enhancement request to ...

You can nest paragraph, tables, divs inside a list item. The simplest action is either to right-click the list item in which you want to nest a paragraph and select Make Paragraph Item(s) or, with the cursor in the list item, press Ctrl+; (semicolon).

To learn about the general technique, review ...

Hi all,

When I create a new list and start typing inside the list item ( li ), there is no style at all. I wish it would default to the paragraph ( p ) style, but it doesn't. And for reasons I don't understand, when the cursor is inside this unstyled list item, the paragraph style is filtered out ...

Also interested in the answer (I have the same problem).

FIXED!

1. Right-click desktop > Screen resolution .
2. Click Make text and other items larger or smaller .
3. Select Medium - 125% (or Large - 150% ) > Apply .
4. Log out, log in.

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of having the extra screen real estate, though?

I'll be moving to a 4k monitor soon ...

Wendy F wrote:Added a feature request....I'm really surprised this is not possible.

Don't want to dogpile, but FrameMaker can do this.

Finally! Confirmed to be a bug:

Looking more into this issue, it appears that deselecting the "Generate resized copies of scaled images" option does prevent any out of memory warnings that you previously received in the build log.

While having this option selected, I have confirmed that this is a ...

There is some truth to it. Of the 8GB RAM the OS takes a good chunk plus several other applications. Flare does not get access to all the memory in the system.
If you do not like the answer write a letter to the CEO...I've done it a few times with other companies and it had a positive effect.

It ...

Alright, the response to that was:

Looking more into this issue, although you do have 8GB of memory and enough to process these images, Flare does not have access to all of that memory and therefore produces that warning.

That is a completely nonsensical answer. Does anyone have advice on how to ...

I received the following response:

I was able to reproduce this issue and saw it in the build log on my end. Looking more into this issue I found that this is because Flare does not have enough memory to proccess and resize the image so it will use the source image. However, since the output is ...

I'm getting this too, with 2017 r2. Images seem to be fine in output, but the messages are troubling. Does anyone know what this message means?

Edit: I filed a bug with testcase; I will let everyone know what their response is.

How in the world do you debug this error? My PDF builds fine but my HTML5 OLH does not. The .mclog file, in its entirety , is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MadCapLog Protocol="2" Description="MadCap Flare 2017 Generated XXXXX_olh.fltar" Date="2017-04-11T12:26:34.2290830-04:00 ...

Mini-TOCs broken for us too.

Yes, I am seeing this also.

Based on Dave's summary in another thread ( https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28996 ), I think I'm going to have to uninstall this release and go back to the last one :cry:

As I mentioned, re-selecting Topic Files in the filter fixed it for me, so ...

By the way, I used the following program to capture screen activity as an animated GIF:

http://www.screentogif.com/

I highly recommended it! The developer (Nicke) is a nice guy, and he is responsive to enhancement requests too.

ChoccieMuffin wrote:I am now in the habit of splitting my screen and having the text editor open a little bit at the bottom of the screen so I can edit the code with ease.

This is a great idea!

Hi everyone! I figured I'd start a thread for us to share tips and tricks regarding the XML/text editor. In fact, for my first post, I'm soliciting your tricks!

First, is there a way to merge identical tags that are adjacent to each other? For example, consider the case where I delete text between ...

Hi all,

I wanted to start a topic for sharing ideas on how to format notes. Here is what we currently use:

div.note
{
mc-auto-number-format: '{b}Note:{/b}';
}
div.note p { margin-left: 20px; }
div.note pre { margin-left: 20px; }
div.note ul { margin-left: 20px; }
div.note ol { margin-left: 20px ...

Just a reminder - whenever you use a nonbreaking hyphen or space, be sure to generate all forms of output and verify that the content is found by a search as the user will type it . For example, I've found that using a nonbreaking hyphen for "-option" results in a PDF where searching for "-option ...

Well, what I'm taking away from this is that "it can't do that." I've written my scripting to make the relative path adjustments, but it would have been nice to have a cleaner solution.

Thanks all!

Hi,

why don't you use the same structure in Flares content that your original files have? If you want to change it later, Flare updates links in all source files.

Part of the conversion is taking a flat directory of many hundreds of files, and "directorifying" them. I do understand that file ...

Hi all,

I am writing an in-house conversion tool from our legacy format to Flare. One of the messy parts is due to the directory structure, I find myself having to reference files like this:

<a href="../../../../shared/some_file.htm">
...
<table style="width: 100%;mc-caption-repeat: true;mc-table ...

How in the world do you debug this error? My PDF builds fine but my HTML5 OLH does not. The .mclog file, in its entirety , is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MadCapLog Protocol="2" Description="MadCap Flare 2017 Generated XXXXX_olh.fltar" Date="2017-04-11T12:26:34.2290830-04:00 ...

It must have been something transient. Now it works, although as cdschroeder says, the TOC does not update until it's opened/closed (strange since changes to other files like CSS are detected and updated immediately). Previously, this same topic didn't update its TOC entry even after restarting ...

Response from support:

This is not currently possible without excluding the individual topics from the output search. I have submitted a feature request on your behalf to our Product Managers who work with our Research and Development team regarding future versions of our products.

Looks like ...