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Hi Kim,

If this is something you do regularly, could you encase the CD section in a DIV then use a background image on the DIV to include the CD image?

For example, I have a Caution DIV style that puts a standard Caution icon in an indented margin:

div.caution
{
page-break-inside: avoid ...

I suspect it's a bug in Flare. Output gets created first as a series of HTM files which get rendered into individual PDFs (per section of the document) then stitched together to form the final product. The last stage fixes the cross references and links internal to the document. It looks like the ...

Could you work it by inserting your H1 on the Title page as the title of the document, then include a header frame on the page layout that includes the H1 as a heading?
For example, I have my chapters set up so they are introduced by a Title page (with title page layout). This has the H1 on it, and ...

Sounds like syles aren't being found and default fonts are being used.
Troubleshooting CSS can be tricky. I'd start with the basic things:
Duplicate your working stylesheet and enclose all its contents in the new medium to check it's the stylesheet causing the issue not the document/target/build ...

Adobe has already fixed the bug on August 22nd. So if you update your Adobe Acrobat Reader or Acrobat installation, you should be fine.

Marvellous news, thanks Mark. The only comment I had from Adobe on my bug was:
The engineering teams are aware of the issue and further investigating the root ...

Not sure I understand what you're trying to achieve. It sounds like you want the H1 on the second page to be the same as the Title. Can you make a variable and insert the variable on both the cover in a Title style and on page 2 in the H1 style? Then updating the variable will cause both Title and ...

Hi,

How about using two variables? One variable for the URL and one for the text. So if a target has the URL defined it gets turned into an appropriate link. If there is no URL defined for the target, just the variable with the text in it is displayed:

Topic contains:
<p>Software version: <a href ...

Check also the topic isn't conditioned in the TOC, and that the file itself isn't conditioned in the Content Explorer.
I'd look at the .fltoc file and the topic file in a text editor just to confirm there are no sneaky conditions being applied.

Cheers,

Rob

Has anyone tested the optional update 19.012.20040, August 22, 2019. This purports to fix "4282242: Error “Cannot extract embedded font. Some characters may not display or print correctly” thrown on opening pdf files containing certain fonts". I'm reluctant to change what's working for me (the ...

Not in Flare 2019 as yet. I raised another bug about this as it would really be good to have it working within Flare itself. Either hotlinks, cross-references or links to named destinations would be a good thing to have working from page layouts. I deliver PDF to tablets and keyboard-less screens ...

The caveats: each page layout needs to have exactly the same page types, and no more than one of each - because when you don't select a page layout, you just get the basic list (e.g. normal, title etc).
And you need to be prepared to have the page layout breaks fall at the same topics for each ...

Periodically I have issues with Adobe Acrobat not playing nicely and leaving the AdobeCollabSync process running. This prevents a rebuild of the target from Flare as the output is seen as still open. The process is an Adobe Creative Suite component that makes files available to share between other ...

A post that I should bookmark. Unless you explicitly state that body should have no margin and padding, it may well inherit it from elsewhere outside of your control. And then one day you'll be creating a layout and suddenly find a vertical space you can't account for.

So, yes, it's a really good ...

If you can define a single page layout for each output, you can define the page layouts in the targets and avoid specifying them in the TOC entirely.
If you need different page layouts for different sections of the document, maybe you can just duplicate those entries, and use conditions to put the ...

Hi guys,

I'm a writer for a boat manufacturer. I produce a set of manuals that are generated from a single TOC with multiple conditions. Currently my only output is to PDF which is configured to be a balance between number of printed pages (currently around 300) and readability. Manuals are printed ...

That said, MadCap Flare is apparently embedding the font incorrectly. If the font were embedded correctly by Flare's PDF engine, this wouldn't be an issue. So I hope MadCap is also looking at this for a fix from their side, so if Adobe decides again at some point to strictly enforce font encoding ...

Hi,

Did you ever work out what was going on? I'm in the same boat with company specific OTF fonts embedded as CID identity-h. All was OK until the very latest Acrobat ugrade last night (2019.012.20036 - Aug 13 2019) which no longer seemed to display the fonts. The documents were the same and could ...

Hi,

Does anyone know if this hover mapper or something similar still exists and if it works with the newest version of flare?
Because I can't seem to be able to find it but find it really fascinating :-)

Hi Hattie,
Yes they still exist and work, though you have to use the workarounds I ...

I found this was due to several issues:

issues with the upgrade and a new version of jquery being used (v3.3.1 currently) not supporting getClientRects
Difficulties in getting the Madcap inclusion of jquery aligned with the qtip javascript. qtip.js should follow immediately the jquery.js, and ...

Hi guys,

You CAN get basic rectangular image-map like links to work in a responsive environment. I was struggling as I really wanted an image map as a visual navigator for my systems, but had to cater for web/tablet and phone formats. I followed a number of options, none of which seemed to work for ...

I was stumbling on this today too and came up with a kludgy workaround.
I'm converting my company from InDesign to Flare to improve useability and to implement single sourcing.
My current InDesign page layouts include a link to the Contents and Cover pages in the footer for PDF output.
I was ...