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The problem with a \"repeat style change\" command is that it would apply inline formatting, which eliminates some of the advantage of using stylesheets in the first place. If there's a particular type of style you'd like to be able to use whenever you want, then I recommend creating a generic class ...

It looks like you should be able to sort on the condition color chip column in View > File List, but it doesn't work (bug). If you create a new condition tag, something with a really obnoxious color, then it might help to see it in the File List view, even if you can't sort by the color chip.

The ...

The easiest way is to just open the file in Word and resave it as a .doc file. When I've done that it's always embedded the images in the file. I think there's also a command in Word to change references to embedded instances, but I don't remember it off the top of my head.

In your stylesheet in the print section (you might have to open in Internal Text Editor to see it clearly), look to see if you have a complex selector set up for paragraphs inside lists. It will appear as li p in the stylesheet. See if that specifies a left margin or padding. It might also appear as ...

bash7012 wrote:I've tried setting the padding-left value of the default.css print medium to 0 but it does not seem to have any effect.

Try setting the margin-left property instead. Also, make sure your body tag doesn't have any margin-left settings applied to it.

I'm not with MadCap, but the minimum system requirements are posted at the bottom of this web page --> http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/home.aspx.

Wouldn't that update it every time anyone viewed the topic? That's the system clock, isn't it, not the file date/time?

Didn't test this, but see if this Javascript gives you want you want: http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/date-updated.html . You might even be able to put it in a snippet and put the snippet in every page, but you'd have to check to see if it dynamically gives you the date the parent topic ...

See this post --> http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=3029

Ok, I tested it and confirmed that I can reproduce it. That is, if I create two span classes OR generic classes and give them the exact same attributes, then only one of them appears in Word output. However, if I change just one attribute of one of the classes (say, make the font red), then both ...

dgc wrote:Does anyone have a more elegant solution?

Just to clarify, in your stylesheet, is the style written as span.highlight or just .highlight? And are you applying it to the entire paragraph or just a few words within a paragraph?

I can definitely tell you having an older CPU and not having extra RAM makes a big difference. My home computer is a Pentium III. Can't remember how much RAM. But it's definitely slooooower than my work computer. I also have a home automation program running on my home computer that runs on the .NET ...

Hmm. I think this has to be bumped to tech support. I've run out of things to try. Sorry.

Are you trying to FTP to your desktop? You need an FTP service running on your computer in order for you to FTP to it. At least, that's how I think it works. Likewise if you want to FTP to a server, the server has to have FTP running on it.

I tried publishing to a folder on my desktop with the ...

I heard that Flare v3 might use Blaze in place of Frame...?
Flare and Blaze will be two separate products but they'll be able to share content or else you import from Blaze into Flare. Not sure how it'll work yet. But hopefully Blaze will have built-in PDF generation and the workflow should be a ...

I did FTP the Build files to the server, but whenI open the FTP'd files, I see only the topic, not left accordion tabs, etc.
You need to open the Default.htm file -- that's the frameset that includes the navigation, toolbar, and topic area. It will open with your "welcome" topic showing.

In the ...

Does this only happen when you use the Publish feature, or does it also happen if you use the Build feature?

I believe the general rule is that if there is no condition tag set then everything is included. Setting a condition on a topic and specifying that that condition is to be excluded only works on that particular topic. In other words, if TopicA has no condition tag and TopicB has the \"PrintOnly ...

Back before they added some of the Styles options to the Skin, there was a workaround for replacing the logo graphic and navigation images with your own. Maybe something comparable could be done with the DotNet Help splash screen. I haven't tried this, but maybe replacing the About.bmp file stored ...

MadCap didn't say that it wouldn't ever be an option -- just that it's not possible now.

And to be fair, just as some programs are only available for Windows PCs because it's the larger market, likewise some bugs and enhancement requests are addressed first because they relate to WebHelp and CHMs ...

What's the suggested procedure, via Flare, so that all links are updated when the filename changes?
If I just go into Content Organizer, highlight-and-change, will the name changes be propagated to all necessary places? Or am I looking at a huge amount of hand-updating of links?
If you rename a ...

There is no such option in Flare yet, but there have been feature requests submitted for the same reason you specified (picky web servers). I suggest you submit a feature request as well to http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx . Supposedly, the more of us who request something, the better ...

Your code looks fine, so let's try something else. Do it in reverse... Create a FrameMaker file with the text and lines that you want and save the file. Create a new project in Flare and import the FrameMaker page. Allow Flare to import the styles, too (I'm assuming the import has that feature ...

I don't have FrameMaker, so I can't test anything, just make suggestions. How did you create the horizontal line? Did you use the underline tag (<u>), or did you insert a horizontal rule, or did you add a border property to one of your styles?