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HI!
I am using a TopNav template with a SideMenu skin and a Searchbar skin in my OtherTopics master page (obvioulsy, there are other skins too). The search bar seems to be centered when I open the skin, but there is no alignment option like there is for a Toolbar skin. If I leave the size 100%, it ...

Hi

I have some links that do not sit properly on the line like the rest of the text.

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It seems that links are ok in p paragraphs, this is only a problem in tables. I found another topic in here with a similar issue and inspired by this, I have searched the general style sheet and ...

Thank you doc_guy. This is really great and gave me just the info I needed. :D
What if you want to search for two words that hang together? Right now, if I search for 'New Plan' I get all the hits I want, but they are not colored in the result list or the page I jump to. Can I add some lines in my ...

Oh crap. I just found out that I cannot export to Framemaker anymore. If I had noticed this in the deprecated list you are mentioning above, we would not have updated to 2019. :shock: Any ideas or suggestions to what I can do? I do not use Framemaker myself, but I need to export to it so one of our ...

Hi Guys,

What would be the best strategy for applying a new online template to an old project? I have a large project that produces several manuals, two chm helps, and two html5 helps. I want to keep the all the layouts for my pdf manuals, and I need to keep producing the chm help and one of the ...

I got a reply from support and wanted to share it in case others have the same problem.

The mc-auto-number-format property that was set for the h2, h3, and h4 elements in my project were set to

'{chapnum}.{n}.{n+} ' ;

but they should have a CH: in the front like this:

'CH:{chapnum}.{n}.{n ...

Thanks Nita, for tying to help. As you can see from my reply, I am not an advanced user. But here is are the styles from the style sheet. I cannot say I totally understand them. I inherited the project and do not have formal training in CSS.

h1
{
border-bottom-width: 0px;
column-break-after ...

Hi Nita,

I tried to change {n+} to {n} this but that does not fix it. Instead of all the numbers being 3.1 and 3.0.1, they all turn into 3.0 and 3.0.0, but they are still repeated and do not increment.

But thanks for your suggestion.

Hi again!
Can anyone help me out here? I have a manual written in English and my colleagues used MadCap Lingo to localize it to Arabic. Now the numbering has gone wrong.

The auto-numbering settings for each topic and the TOC should be correct, or at least they are the same as the English version ...

I have found the solution. I asked for support from MadCap and they answered that Flare 2018 does not support FrameMaker 2019. In order to build a FrameMaker target, I need to use an older version. This would have been nice to know before investing in the wrong license and spending time installing ...

Perhaps I should add that I have tried the suggestion from Flare's help to run Flare as administrator, still no effect.
Update: I have now a licensed version, and I can still not generate a Framemaker file. Does this work for anyone else?

Hi!
I am trying to make a new output to Framemaker (I'll skip the long and boring explanation of why) and made a new target. Then I got the message that Framemaker is required. Then I installed a trial version of Framemaker to see if it works, but I get the same message. I have restarted my computer ...

Hi!

We have a software product that can be used by people in different sectors, let’s say some use cars, some use boats, and some use motor cycles. The features or add-ons the users have access to are controlled by licenses. Some of our topics will be the same (common) for all users, while others ...

So this means that if you have a topic you are working on for later use and do not want it included in any searches, you need to condition it out in the Content Explorer and not just in the TOC? Wow, I did not realize this. Game changer for me!

Hi!
So basically, it is possible to have two languages in the same build, but it will just look bad?

Hi again!

I have an online help that consists of an introduction plus four manuals. They are in English. One of manuals is localized into Arabic. When the localisations is finished, can I generate an online Help that is bilingual? So the parts that are localised are displayed in Arabic, while the ...

Hi guys,
I have an Html5 Help where I am introducing a new two-page Quick Reference Guide. I can add a hyperlink, so users can see the pdf. But can I add a download link, so users can download the pdf from the online help?

Looking forward to your suggestions!

Kind regards,
Vibeke B

Thanks for your help. I was not aware of the right-click on the document tab. Thanks!

Hi guys,

I am doing some search and replace and end up with a lot of open files. There is an option for saving multiple files. But is there seriously no shortcut for closing a file or even multiple files? Do I really have to click on every single file to close it? Sounds unlikely...

Looking ...

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I have a Flare project which produces five manuals. Until now I have only tried to send an entire project to be translated by colleagues. Now I find, that I need to have just one of these manuals translated, while the others will remain in the source language. What is the best way to translate ...

Hello!

We finally got the integrated source control with Git working. After a few hiccups, it is now working. However, after binding the project to Git, performance has slowed to an all-time low, making editing almost impossible and very cumbersome. It takes seconds from typing a word to seeing it ...

I just had a brain wave! Chm has to be on a local machine to work and I was generating output to a network drive. Move the output to C, and all is well!

Hi!
I am still having this problem and really hope someone can help. :?

I have installed the latest Flare 14 on a Windows 10 computer. I even managed to register the itcc.dll file.
I can generate output with no errors or warnings in the build log. When I open the output, the structure is there and ...

Hi, and thanks for your reply. This is precisely what I want: to have text will appear in the PDF but without the link. I tried adding a condition to the text but that just eliminated the text from the pdf. How do I, as you say, "apply it directly on the A tags and tell Flare to unbind the tags when ...

Hi!
I recently moved from to version R3 and have just opened my old projects in the new version, no conversion. (Was this a mistake?)
I have to generate old legacy chm help for some of the projects. I can generate the help and open it, but the topics are empty. What should I be looking for?

-Vibeke