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https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32371

p.Figure {
...
mc-auto-number-format: 'CF:Figure {chapnum}-{n+} ';
mc-auto-number-class: bold;
}
span.bold {
font-weight: bold;
}

I didn't know about using a class in mc-autonumber until I saw this post and it ...

Hi,

Can you include sections of the stylesheet that define the styles being used and the bits of the page layout that are causing issues? Just to try and nail down where the issue lies. Looks at first glance like the text on the pagelayout isn't using the same style and is using a default font or ...

Hi,

That is odd! Is there any other reference to these files in your project? I'm wondering if somehow an external link has been added somewhere else by accident so the files get copied into the output folder as external files to the PDF? Just thinking off the top of my head... The image files have ...

The style seems to work for me in my builds. I'm just wondering if there is an override somewhere? Perhaps the image is contained in a <p> tag that has different formatting, or the table has an overriding tablestyle that changes things?

Rob

Hi,

I've had empty TOC entries and ListOf entries where there is content that overflows the text frame and therefore doesn't get printed. Flare knows there's something on that page, but since the content or heading doesn't land on a page, it can't get the text for the TOC. That was my case anyway ...

Hi Michelle,

Were the documents all generated to the output folder?
This should be <path to project folder>/<projectname>/Output/<username>/ folder. If you right click the completed build in the Builds list and choose Open Output Folder. All successfully built files should be in this folder ...

Awesome, thanks for the display: none hint! I wondered if it might cause the variable to not pick up the heading if it was invisible - might depend on when Flare picks up headings and when it renders for output. Sounds like the former is true and it will get the information before it hides it from ...

After a bit of puzzling out, the issue seems to be that the "Title" page layout needs to include a Body frame to get its information from. Without that, the Title layout is disconnected from the rest of the pages that follow and any variables referencing headings on the Title page will be empty ...

Hmmm. trying to puzzle out what you're trying to do.
You've got a bunch of topics that you want to collate into a PDF, each one starting with a Title page listing a reference number for that topic with some title page text, then followed by the body of the topic with the reference number in each ...

True, but my understanding is that a printed document (PDF) is based on a specific measurement - a physical size to print - and therefore there must be a conversion somewhere from pixels to measurement and hence a dpi. I'm not sure what process Madcap uses to create the PDF as it isn't a distiller ...

Float left is available from the wysiwyg editor:
Insert an image
Type your text
Right click the image and choose Image Properties > Position, then choose Float Left on the image.
The text will jump to the right of the image.
You can also add margin to the image in the same Properities pane to ...

Hi Paul,

This looks like an image resolution thing. I copied your layout and added a background with dpi of 150 and got a shrunken image on the layout. On a hunch I changed the dpi of the image to 96 and resaved. Because my layout was open it didn't update, so I aligned the background left, then ...

I'm thinking they:
Import content from Word and create whatever topics they need
Create a powerpoint-like page layout with a pdf target.
Reconfigure content into a TOC specifically for that output with any additional front and back matter topics.
Output as PDF
In Acrobat DC select Export as ...

I've had issues with DIVs and floats in PDF layouts before. In the end I've had to nail down the dimensions of DIVs (in the print medium) to make sure I'm getting what I want in final PDF output. Which can make it a careful balance in specifying sizes so you get great PDF and keeping things flexible ...

This doesn't help that much but it does make it easier to add left/right padding without having to code a snippet per button. If you add the before and after selectors to your element:

css:
.ButtonLD::before, .ButtonLD::after {
content:" ";
background-color: #dcdcdc;
}

the content is then ...

I produce quite complicated PDF output and haven't found it difficult to work with. Like most things in Flare, in whatever output you choose, there's usually a work around to fix issues, or at worst, make them so you can live with the solution. I do from time to time output to Word so people can ...

Do you have fonts explicitly specified for the body element? There may be a carry over from Flare defaults that causes the issue. Perhaps I'm just a control freak and like to make sure my body pages and all sub elements are defined fonts-wise.

Can you check in any output in the Temporary folder ...

Did you get to the bottom of this issue?
I build both from Madcap itself and using madbuild from command line. Both have been fine, before and after the latest update for me.
Is it a PDF security settings issue with the target perhaps?
Could it be due to an update to Acrobat reader? I had major ...

Easy. I used the FAR: Find and Replace tool to replace every tab (regex \t) in the relevant folder with four spaces. The line breaks aren't perfect (I wish I could tell Flare that it could wrap at particular characters - e.g before < and after >), but they're definitely good enough.

Submitted ...

Sounds like it's a bug that MadCap doesn't recognise tabs as part of the HTML and as you say, ignores them in calculations of the width of the column. It doesn't know how wide to allow for a tab. Which is a shame as there is a default value (a whopping 8 chars width) as well as a mechanism in CSS ...

No, all has to be PDF. At least for now. I don't have access to upload an HTML-type output to the chartplotter. They're accepting only PDFs currently.

Cheers,
Rob

So you have a chapter heading, then a blank page and then the glossary? Or a blank page before the chapter heading?

Before going further I'd carefully check the toc settings for Printed Output and make sure they're the same as other chapters. I've overlooked this and assumed I'd set them correctly ...

Hi Vibeke,

Do you have a style defined for <b>? Just wondering because if you don't and your container paragraph style uses something non-standard, you might find issues. What happens if you add a:
to your style sheet?

Cheers,
Rob

Glad to help

I use these a lot and like them because it takes the image formatting from the content and ties it to a style. So much easier to change one style than find all references in your document and change those!

Cheers,
Rob

Hi,

I'd try continuing to try to isolate where the issue lies:
Does the footer not display on any of the pages (a left page, a right page, an empty page, a first page), or just one of the types?
If you replace the snippet with plain text in the same style, does that display?
Does a decoration frame ...