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An update on this. It's not the "position: relative;" that's directly causing the problem. It's having both the 'relative' and 'absolute' position both enabled at the same time. If the enclosing paragraph is set to "position: relative" while the change bar image does not have position specified ...

I need to place change bars in front of specific lines in some of my PDF documents. The best way I've come up with so far is to place an image of a vertical line in the XML code and position it using left and top parameters. This requires that the image position be set to 'absolute' and the ...

We've put the Flare projects on the local C: disk, bypassing OneDrive, and that's been working so we'll rely on git as the backup process.

Thanks for the suggestions.

My company recently issued me a new laptop with Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19041 Build 19041. Since then I have had problems building a few of my Flare projects, getting "Build failed: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters ...

I have a large PDF document in Flare 2020 where I need to mark version changes with a change bar aligned with the line where the change occurs. Flare places a single change bar aligned with the first line of the paragraph, regardless of the number or location of the changes. This is what I need ...

Dave Lee wrote:The size and position of the ® symbol will depend entirely on the font you're using.

Unfortunately, variables are text only, so you can't apply inline formatting on characters inside a variable.

True, that. I was hoping there was some sort of a workaround. Thanks though!

I've searched the forums a bit and didn't find a solution for this issue.

In the Variables Editor window I see this when I add a copyright symbol (using Alt-0174, as the Insert Character option is not available in the VariableSet Editor):

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On the page where that variable is applied ...

OK, so I understand the difference between a Ruler and a Separator now. The Ruler is the line that goes between two rows of the same pattern while the Separator is the line that goes after the last row of a particular pattern. Thanks for pointing me to the correct spot in the online help.

I have a ...

Anyone know why for some of the Rows in my TableStyles the Ruler is available:

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but in other Rows I can't access the Ruler:

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I'm perfectly comfortable opening the TableStyle file in a text editor and making changes there but I can't quite figure out which of the ...

Psider wrote:Maybe check that the H3 doesn't have mc-heading-level set to 0 (zero) in your stylesheet?

That was it! Nice catch Psider.

Thanks.

The menu proxy is only listing the h1 and h2 headings, even though the Levels to Show is set to (all). I need the h3 headings to be listed. Any hints? Is there a way to show only the h3 heading text?

Thanks again.

Thanks, Nita! I was not familiar with the Menu Proxy before you pointed it out.

I did note in my follow-up post that the post I saw was ten years old. After more searching I didn't find a solution other than the javascript implementation provided by a user, so I assumed it had it not been addressed ...

OP here.

I see now this question was asked ten years ago and a javascript answer was provided by a forum member. https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=11199&p=63842 . Our friend Nita suggested at the time to submit a feature request as many people are looking for that capability. I ...

I have a large project with many long topics. These long topics each contain up to a dozen or more h3 headings. I would like a list of links (cross references) to the h3 headings within a single topic at the top of the topic that contains those headings. Is there a way to do that automatically ...

I'm trying to force change bars to appear in specific places in my PDF output. I've tried various methods with images, spans with borders, things like that, but have not come up with a way to systematically place a change bar right where I want.
My latest attempt is to use the pipe '|' character as ...

Rob, jeff, thanks for the inputs.

Rob, yes you have the structure correct. I have already set the topic in the TOC as a Chapter Break. Setting the Chapter File Name using the Properties of the TOC entry does not seem to have any effect, as the output PDF is given the target name as its filename ...

jeff,

I have a TOC file set up with the topics of interest that would be used by the target. I chose h6 because I don't have any headings lower than h4 anywhere else in the topics.

Flare 2020, PDF output

I have documents with the document ID number (DIN) on the first page. I would like to have the DIN in the footer of each subsequent page. One solution I came up with was to set mc-heading-level: 6; for the DIN and then use the Heading.Level6 variable in the footer. This works ...

Flare 2020

It is my understanding that a PDF output file is named using the file name of the topic in the TOC. However, I'm always getting the file name to be the actual Target name, i.e., PDF_Target.pdf. What would cause the target not to use the topic name? I can enter a name in the Output File ...

Muffin,

I love, love, love snippet variables and use them whenever I can. In this particular case, though, the snippets will for the most part be completely different from each other and when they are similar, I would still have to go to each location and set the snippet variable conditions ...

Maybe a silly question, but is there a way to go about duplicating content from one location to another without making a link to the original location? Meaning I want a paragraph in Topic A to be duplicated in Topic B, but I don't want the content in Topic B to be a clickable link. I suppose that's ...

I have a PDF project consisting of several articles contained in separate topics. At the front of PDF there is a table with a summary of the articles including the title and a short summary. Since the title and summary can change as the document evolves, and I don't want to have to remember to make ...

Sorry, haven't checked the forums recently.

First step is to connect to the SharePoint site using the SharePoint Explorer in Flare. Open SP Explorer, select the Connect to SharePoint Server button, then enter the server URL. Flare will check that the connection goes through. If it doesn't, you ...

We've set up a Destination to a SharePoint site and have successfully uploaded HTML5 output to the site. We have also created a target to create PDFs of the individual topics so users would have access to them in that format as well. However, when we try to upload the PDFs to SharePoint , we get a ...

Flare 2019 r2, importing a Word doc. On the Advanced Options tab of the Import Wizard, the 'Create new stylesheet' check box is selected and grayed out so I can't clear it. Doesn't matter which inline formatting option I have selected in the drop down directly below the check box. I'd rather not ...