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Curlyshell

Have you examined the actual TOC in Project Organizer?

Curlyshell

I'm not sure which are the "ghost" entries, or whether those entries are actual topics in your project, or if perhaps they are headings within a topic.

If they are actual topics, is it possible you're being affected by the setting in your PDF target > Advanced tab > "Inject headings for unlinked ...

Curlyshell

When I make a change to the stylesheet in Flare, it doesn't "change" the attribute in styles.css. Instead, it "appends" the stylesheet with a new entry. I just realized this, but it explains a lot!

For example, I started out with this style:

p.DefList
{
font-weight: 700;
margin-bottom: 0pt ...

Curlyshell

Thanks! I have some files that I don't want in the TOC, so I can't use that.

Curlyshell

I imported a Word doc into a project with a Side Navigation skin, creating new topics for every H1, H2, and H3. Sometimes an H1 is immediately followed by an H2 (I'm OK with that). But importing into the Side Nav skin it's not ok: you either get an empty page containing just the header, or you get ...

Curlyshell

My experience is that Flare has trouble with line breaks in Regex. I have to do that work outside of Flare. Notepad++ is extremely helpful with bulk Regex changes!

Curlyshell

UPDATE: We bought Camtasia and I've created dozens of videos, mostly tutorials under 8 minutes but also some short-short videos demonstrating very quick actions - what you'd expect of an animated GIF a few seconds long, except these are regular MP4s. I embed them using the <Object> tags and they are ...

Curlyshell

I just had an issue with a private Vimeo file embedded in a Flare topic. Though the old videos are still playing, a video I just uploaded wouldn't display or play.

Vimeo Support explained that they've stepped up their security (which I'll explain below), and new videos are required to comply. But ...

Curlyshell

Thank you! Here's the revised process for anyone who wants to copy it:

Topic 1 is the one you keep. Topic 2 is the one that goes away.

• In the TOC, remove Topic 2 and SAVE.
• Make sure all the <head> info in Topic 2 is also present in Topic 1. For example, table stylesheets. Copy anything needed ...

Curlyshell

I'm doing some cleanup in my project, including merging topics that were automatically split apart when I imported from Word. Can someone please vet my process? I'm not sure that all steps are necessary—or sufficient.

Perhaps this will be helpful to others as well.

Page 1 is the one you keep. Page ...

Curlyshell

Thanks, @Chocciemuffin, you rock!

It must have been reset during the upgrade.

Curlyshell

Has something changed in 2020 r2? Suddenly, if I hit Enter and click the Bullets button, I get tags inside the new bullet. It looks like this:

<ul>
<li>
 
</li>
</ul>

Instead of like this:

<ul>
<li>

</li>
</ul>

This is a HUGE pain! Now I can't open the style drop-down and ...

Curlyshell

You were probably just looking at a single keyframe.

On the far left, at the top of the timeline, there are three selections: Movie View, Frame View, and Action View. It seems to default to Frame View.

Best of luck!

Curlyshell

I'm considering using Mimic for video tutorials, but I'm finding it hard to learn how to do the absolute most basic editing. By editing I mean slice out the stuff that doesn't belong (where I say "um, um, um," click the wrong button, or endure a long wait time because WFH VPN).

MadCap is all over ...

Curlyshell

Uhm...who are "they"? With a bit more context it might be easier to give advice.

"They" are MadCap's UI.

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Curlyshell

Thanks! Using the block works for the entire list (<ul>) but not for a subset of bullets (<li>). That sounds picky, but sometimes I don't want the entire list to be part of my micro content. But when I tried to move the tags around in the HTML so only the text I wanted was part of the micro content ...

Curlyshell

When I select text in a topic, the Micro Content button isn't always available.

It seems that paragraph () text lights up the Micro Content button, but list text keeps it grayed out. H3 is good; H7 not so much.

I submitted the bug, but does anyone have a workaround?

Curlyshell

FOLLOW-UP: MadCap says they use a third-party engine to produce the PDF, and the bug lives in the engine. So it's not getting fixed as far as I can tell.

Curlyshell

If you take a look in the Output>Temporary folder, you should be able to find a folder with the name of your PDF target, with htm files in it. Take a look at the source of one of those htm files (one that has the glossary footnotes), and look at what class the footnotes are using. That should give ...

Curlyshell

The link to the image is broken. I see your reference to the image starts with ../../../ I don't know what it should be, but my image reference is ../../ when it should be only ../ —I reported this.

But thanks for the tip. Who needs that stupid icon?

Curlyshell

Thanks—I was hoping to hear honest opinions.

I'm fixing the border issues by putting my own borders on the darned images. The rest of the problems I can get around. I look forward to someday when some of these bugs are fixed.

Appreciate all the input!

Curlyshell

Flare's PDF target seems so full of bugs, I'm considering creating a Word target instead and then exporting from PDF to Word. (I'm lucky to have Adobe Acrobat).

Flare has trouble rendering styled text (see https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32013 ), and the TOC is funky (see ...

Curlyshell

This has been entered as Bug #154537.

Curlyshell

I put in a bug report for this. I also mentioned your snippets.

And I found something else: some of my buttons have a little drop-down arrow, so I added a transparent graphic to the text. But it's white in the PDF.

Curlyshell

I have a style to mimic the look of a button in our software by adding a background color and a rounded border.

Some buttons contain MadCap variables. Normally, styling works fine with variables - such as in headers, or when bolding.

Click Add/Edit <MadCap:variable name ...

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Re: "Ghost" TOC Topics

Re: "Ghost" TOC Topics

Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css

Re: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF

Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF

Re: fixing list import issues with search and replace

Re: Basic Editing

Alert: If You Embed "Private" Vimeo Videos...

Re: Confirm process for merging topics

Confirm process for merging topics

Re: Click Bullets, <p> remains

Click Bullets, <p> remains

Re: Mimic recorded just a few seconds

Basic Editing

Re: PDF output??

Re: Micro Content button grayed out

Micro Content button grayed out

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Re: Glossary terms as footnotes need to change the font size

Re: Glossary terms in online output have extra space

Re: Should I create a Word target INSTEAD of PDF?

Should I create a Word target INSTEAD of PDF?

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes