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Look at the setup of your table styles, because you could have settings that cause overlap.

We often create multipage tables that use bulleted lists and numbered lists (with autonumbering) but we don't get overlap.

Because Flare works with hexadecimal or RGB colors you get a black that's a mixture of all the colors.

In Acrobat Distiller you can set your colors to convert to RGB or CMYK, but does Flare support that capability? Worth a test.

You have a couple of options, depending on how fancy you want your notes to be. This is a simple one. I've left out the fancy stuff such as background, etc.

We created a <p> class, Note.
{display: block;
mc-auto-number-class: numbr;
mc-auto-number-position: outside-head;
margin-botton: 0.5em ...

The issue is that many of us want a variable for <year> that applies to whatever we define. And there's no easy way to get one.

For example, in FrameMaker our <year> variable updates to the system year of the last save.

It doesnt matter what the copyright rules are -- what matters is what the ...

I am right there with you -- but I think this is some kind of bug.

I import a 32-bit image (a TIFF) into Flare. The image is at 100 percent size for how it is going to be used in Flare. From Flare I open the image in Capture and set the file properties especially print properties. The image is a ...

I've only run into a couple of quirks with editing the stylesheet outside of Flare 6. The primary one is Flare sometimes stops recognizing a style. That requires opening a topic with the assigned style and (even temporarily) assigning other text the "missing" style. Eventually Flare recognizes the ...

Well, it could be that the compiler doesn't recognize "thin." Not all browsers scrupulously render the entirety of CSS 2.x.

Rather than selecting "thin" I specify what I mean as "thin" -- online it's 1px, for printed it's .5pt.

Good luck!

Yes, I specified the size of the graphic when it was in a frame. I even opened up Capture and set print output, etc etc etc.

No help, unfortunately.

I got my expected results when I reduced the bit depth to 8 and kept 96 DPI. Didn't have to specify anything in Flare either. :D For other page ...

I inserted the graphic as a background. However, that gives me another idea -- I'll try putting it in an image frame, drop it to the bottom layer, and see whether it behaves. Thanks for the suggestion!

Update:
I added the graphic to an image frame and more of the graphic was cropped -- even when ...

I tried importing the image again (at 96 DPI, 32-bit depth) and it looks better
except
this 7x9 PNG is simultaneously cropped and bleeding.

If I adjust the page layout margins to account for the PNG size, Flare still crops the image.

Is it the bit depth that's flummoxing Flare?

The goal: a PDF book cover with a color graphic and white text overlay.

What I have:
A title page layout (letter size; portrait orientation; margins set to 0) with a body text frame
A topic with the contents for the title page
A color PNG that measures 7 by 9 inches, different versions with ...

Update: Only one graphic displayed on the page layout after tinkering in MSPaint. The rest had to be manipulated in Capture. I found that by entering Capture settings for the graphics they displayed appropriately on the Flare page layout.

However ... there is a white background on the overlying ...

We're noticing something similar as we use PNG files (built in Fireworks) as backgrounds on page layouts. Lots of problems in Flare 6 because it simply doesn't want to (1) render a PNG appropriately and (2) a PNG doesn't consistently display in the PDF output.

I'd be willing to bet that building a ...

Our bullet images (png) reside in an Images folder in the Resources folder. They display in the project, but not when I print from the compiled file. Nor do they display in the PDF -- or anywhere else.

How can I resolve this?

Create a <span> style for the character.

I use check marks and other symbols in online help and PDF output. So my <span> style uses Zapf Dingbats. Works great.

Trying to generate output and encounter "A generic error occurred in GDI+."

What causes this? How to circumvent it?

How does frame flicker (even with duplicated frames) have something to do with an image on any frame?

That is so weird.

How much RAM do you have?

Can you use <embed> code to drop the SWF where you want?

Reveal is the animation in question. We have rebuilt the animation several times, rebuilt on new frames, etc. No luck.

And then there are the Out of Memory errors ... not happy with this software this month.

Why does Mimic cause so many "out of memory exception" messages when all I'm doing is working with graphics? We can't be restarting our computers every few minutes. Yes, I have a lot of room on my hard drive, and the most RAM this computer can manage. And yet ...

I get the impression people don't ...

A simple demo, but two frames refuse to show animations. The animations display in preview, but are absent in the final. Recreating the animations hasn't worked either. Animations on other frames work just fine.

How to fix?

I have turned off transitions between slides. However, there is an annoying flicker between frames, even with duplicated content.

I've never seen this occur in other software -- how do I keep it from happening?

Here's the pieces of the one we use ... we do not have a separate stylesheet for tables. Maybe you can reverse-engineer from this code.

table
{
letter-spacing: 0px;
font-family: sans-serif, 'Lucida Sans', Arial;
line-height: 124%;
margin-bottom: .75em;
margin-top: .5em;
font-size: 100%;
mc ...