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Translating Flare projects is new to me. My company has their own English to French translation team that uses MultiTrans as their translation tool.
I've given them an XLIFF that I created through Lingo to test how that would work with their system, and they can find no way to use that ...

Dave Lee wrote:Sorry about that - I knew in the back of my mind that this functionality existed, but didn't realise it doesn't work for any 'current' help outputs. (DotNetHelp is already dead, and I'm sure WebHelp will be dead soon.)

No problem - I'm sure they'll catch up some day

Oh no! I followed all the instructions, and then when I expanded the note at the very bottom of the help topic, it said:

NOTE: Stop words are not customizable in HTML5 outputs.

The challenge I'm having is we don't want to auto-translate due to quality issues and there are certain advantages to text-to-speech for voice-overs. We are using this now in Captivate. Asking someone to provide narration for our videos and re-recording for updates would be a real challenge for us ...

Yep, it tells you how to add stop words in the help topic I linked to.

I'm sorry - I totally missed that when I was scanning the replies! Thank you very much. Looks like it's a language skin, so I could set up my new stop words and then add them to the master project to share with all the ...

Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks!
I want to make it as easy as possible for the business to self-curate or maintain learning pieces, and since Mimic is installed as part of the suite (and enables some handy features like conditions), it's a better suited solution than asking them to also get ...

Ahhhh, I see. Do you know if there's a way to add "stop words" to Flare's list of stop words?

If a user searches for the following in the HTML5 help output, they get a number of results:

print a document

However, if they write it as a question, they get zero results:

how do I print a document

What is the trick to enable results when a user phrases their search in the form of a ...

I have a few files we want to include in the help that are authored and maintained by another group that wants to keep updating them in Word. However, we want the ability to search that content in the help. Some of those files are currently in our OpenText Livelink location, while the others are on ...

I wanted to move from Captivate to Mimic until I couldn't find a way to provide audio using computer voice. We can enter a script in Captivate and then use Microsoft voices to create audio. While that's not the most glamorous, it works for short minute videos and it works for the company in ...

After painstakingly copying over styles from a generic CSS to mine, I have narrowed down the reason. My images, when embedded into a list as simple paragraph items, displayed expanded instead of collapsed by the toggle because of this line in my CSS MadCap|relatedTopics

mc-help-control-display ...

I've just started changing my images to Simple Paragraph Items within lists instead of my previous method of having them as paragraph tags and then restarting the list below the image. I made the change in an attempt to force images to keep with previous in print output.

As a result, toggles are ...

Thank you for doing that! Guess I need to call MadCap. Perhaps this is a big report

So, the images in my PDF are still the same size as the help output. What have I forgotten?

STEPS
- In Capture, I set up the image to Enable Print Format, and I scaled the output to 150 DPI
- In Flare, I created a new medium called PrintQuickStart
- In my PDF target, I set the Stylesheet Medium to ...

There is a way but only if you are happy to edit the code.

Open the TOC in the text editor. The second line should have a reference to the source file - remove that reference.
For example, in the following snippet of code, you would remove the sourceDocument=="C:\temp\test_Mar_2011.docx"

THANK ...

pouliotmax wrote:Or parent.window.location="" on the click event should work too

Thank you! The first didn't work, but this one did. I appreciate your help.

We have a home button in our HTML5 skin that takes you back to the "Introduction" or HOME page of the help. However, when I click this button, it does nothing. Here are some of the button events I've tried so far:

frames["Topic"].document.location.href="../Content/Introduction.htm";
document.frames ...

Both are browser strings AFTER the CSH call from the software. Any CSH made in Flare 7 contains the StartTopic portion of the string. Any CSH made in Flare 8 fails when called from the software, and the difference in the browser is the absence of that StartTopic portion of the string.

I am ...

Up until our recent upgrade to Flare 8.1.2 (may or may not be related), our CSH calls would appear like this in the Web browser when called from the software:

http://help.mycompany.com/SoftwareName/2.1.0/Name_Help_Left.htm#CSHID=Set_Property_Dialog_Box|StartTopic=Content%2FTopics%2FWorkInSoftware ...

I check in my Flare topics through subversion, so I can see what's changed from one check-in to the next. Recently, after a check-in I noticed a topic had changes, but nobody had edited that topic. When I compared the changes, I noted the following is all the changed in the topic:

Original Topic ...

Hi all

For the past few years, the technical writers have shared a network location for our help files, edited them in that location, and zipped the source to upload into Subversion whenever we had new changes to submit.

Now that we have SSD drives in our machines, we want to take advantage and ...

Wow - thanks everyone! I really appreciate the advice. I'll do a little number gathering and present my case.

And yeah, I probably got paid enough doing this current research to have purchased the appropriate SSD for all my team. Why or why do technical writers have to PROVE themselves? Sigh.

p.s ...

So, I had a convo with IT about putting a second hard drive into the box (I found a 32GB SSD could be purchased for under $100). I got a confusing answer (see below). Does everyone agree?


He said that I could get an SSD that size for that price, but the problem with those is that they are slower ...

Thank you so much for all your responses!

Yes, it is a case where we're leasing machines from Dell.

The machines are Windows, 64-bit. They decided to order three configurations - one for developers, one for QA, and one for everyone else. Somehow, the technical writers got included in the "everyone else" category, and I'm bucking that right ...