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Kevin stated that McDonald's was successfully sued.



And more to the point, it's a classic example of the decline and fall of western civilization. (I mean, really, *who* in their right mind would expect that if you put a cup of coffee between your legs and start driving that you wouldn't a ...

RamonS wrote:Those toothpick instructions lack as well then, doesn't say you are not supposed to swallow them.

Uh oh, there's a lawsuit waiting to happen... sorta like McD's getting sued successfully for selling coffee that's (gasp!) hot....

Another book you might want to take a look at is "Madcap Flare for Robohelp Users" by Scott DeLoach (look for it on Google Books). It sez it only covers up to Flare 2.5, but the UI for Flare hasn't changed all that much since then (there are a number of new features, but the old ones still work the ...

If the text is tiny, it's because you set it that way in your style sheet :) The XML editor shows you what your style sheet settings are for the media type you have selected.

If you want to increase the font size in the Flare editor, you need to change your style sheet or your display settings ...

I am a little lucky in the sense that everyone here does use revision marking (the boss likes it, so everyone uses it). I usually end up going through and copying or typeing text in sentence by sentence rather than paragraph by paragraph (the changes usually aren't that huge--if it's going to be ...

I'd do what Richard suggests, then: copy the text into a new Word document then import that document into your Flare project. Flare will make HTML out of it with paragraph breaks (the problem we're discussing here only happens when you copy, not when you import).

Or, if you're doing a manual process anyway, it may be simpler to paste it as a big block into Flare then add your own paragraph breaks.

(This is not in any way meant to apologize for the bizarre behaviour of Flare here--just suggesting that in some cases it may be quicker to just reformat in ...

Going in a completely different direction, you could adjust her display rather than Flare. Specifically, change the DPI of her monitor. For Windows XP, you can do this in the display settings under Properties>Advanced.

I can think of two reasons why the topic might use a different font:

1) that topic might be referencing a different stylesheet

or

2) you might have been using a snippet (snippets usually don't reference stylesheets directly, instead they use the same stylesheet as the topic you insert them into ...

I currently have versions of Firefox, IE7, Opera, and a virtual machine with IE6 for testing web output. Given that our users are in a Windows world that may be overkill, but every work place has someone who installs Firefox.....

Over here, that'd be me :D Everyone else in the office uses IE 7 ...

To add to what RamonS (aka David) said, this affects every html editor, not just Flare. Dreamweaver, Robohelp, Frontpage, etc. etc. all have to deal with this issue. It's just the nature of the beast when dealing with web output.

RamonS wrote:Wouldn't it then make sense to show a message "Preview is not available when no primary target is selected." ?

I'll second that motion...

Ok, let's back up a bit: if your coworker clicks OK in the message, can she use Flare? I get that message every single time that I launch any Madcap product here because of the firewall rules my network admin has set up. However, it doesn't interfere with my use of the applications at all, so we ...

The thing about WYSIWYG in this case is it really depends on your output format. Different browsers interpret CSS differently, so if you make WebHelp it may look one way in IE 6, a different way in IE 7, and different again in Firefox or Safari. If you're building CHMs, it will look different again ...

Gotcha.

Oh I agree, it would be better to have source control through Flare working--but if it's killing our dev server, guess what?

My network guys came to me today asking why my system was generating so much network traffic with our development server. Turns out its Flare talking to VSS and sending out an unbelievable number of packets (44 million from me to the server, and another 41 million back). I'm now unbinding my ...

I would unbind the project from source control. There's a help topic about it in Flare, called "Unbinding a Project from Source Control."

Sorry, I thought you were putting the cross reference in the dropdown body, not the dropdown head or hotspot.

You could make the dropdown hotspot the cross reference site. The only drawback is the dropdown won't open automatically when users jump to it (which as I recall is what you were after originally) but it would let you use Flare to create cross references and the reference wouldn't contain the entire ...

Ok. When you resized the img class before, which method did you use? If you changed the height and width characteristics in the Box section of the stylesheet editor, what I would try is not setting any size at all. You can do that by clicking on the pulldown in the upper right and choosing (default ...

Just for grins, open one of the topics up in the internal text editor (or a text editor of your choice) and take a look at the img tags. It's possible there's some inline size code there. If there is, remove it and the size should go back to 1:1.

You got me--I'm still guessing myself, but every time I pick up the cup that darn peanut is under one of the other two....

One thing to note about resizing images: If you plan to generate a Word target, resize your images in Flare rather than SnagIt. If you resize them in SnagIt, they'll look fuzzy. But if you load them into Flare and resize them in Flare, they'll look crisp in a Word target. Same deal in RoboHelp ...

"Hey, source control--you still there? Oh, good, wouldn't want to think I'm alone out here."

"Hey, source control--still there? Still there? Oh, gee, it's getting lonely out here. Still there? Still...."