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It doesn't slow down my productivity unless I'm trying to move content back and forth between my Draft folder and other project folders - then it becomes unusable. I find it convenient to have a folder with conditioned-out content marked as 'Draft" into which I can drop temporary topics and images ...

Here's the body of a BUG I submitted just now - yes a GREAT BIG DIRTY BUG!

""Why oh why does Analyser insist on running every few minutes?
I have a Draft folder in which I keep work in progress topics and images - but whoa betide me if I want to eventually try and move that content to other folders ...

The sad thing is...for the "Loading - please wait!" message you'd again need a script. Is it users who have to wait or is it so far you with your laptop who has to wait?
Mostly me - although recently I noticed it is loading okay if I launch the webhelp, say, first thing in the morning - seems like ...

My laptop is probably not the fastest (DELL Precision M4300 Intel(R) Core 2 Duo CPU T7500@ 2.20GHz 789 MHz - whatever my ssytem properties mean :oops: !) Would be great if when loading Webhelp I could at least display a 'Loading please wait..." message - that way users wouldn't give the webhelp up ...

I too have an issue open with support. Published ebhelp takes 40 seconds to load (despite "Done" being displayed in lower left of the browser!). After building a test project and creating webhelp output with just 2 simple topics I still got the same 40 second delay.

Exciting... until I discovered I still couldn't turn off analyser!! My enhancement request must've fallen on deaf ears.

(Re: Previous post) Or rather "Ignore Print DPI" or be able override it with, say, 96 dpi, but still keep the print size you set for the image.

I'm capturing images with a profile that specified .png images at 96dpi for online, and .jpg at 300dpi for print. Apart from a bug associated with resizing the print size for the print format - I am able to resize images how I want them for the printed page.
Only trouble is the size of the PDFs come ...

Our software developers had a recent issue whereby they had to disable ClearType in order to make the display of rendered text sharper. Not too sure about the details, but I have always had ClearType disabled (via the Control Panel | Display | Appearance | Effects) since this makes a big difference ...

That's fine, but I don't have any projects with apostrophes.

Come to think of it, once we know what the cause is, we have the means to turn the auto-analysis off!!

Re: "What's tripping up analysis". Good question. I had the same View | Project Analysis pane is blank except for 'No project' problem with 2 out of 10 projects. The cause is uknown.
Problem solved after I deleted the Analyzer folder for the two problem projects and (so far) everything is fine ...

Cancel previous post (is there a way to delete a previous too-hastily-sent post?) I just got prompted about the 4.1 update. Hmmm.. wonder if it's related to my annoyingly intermittent "MadCap Flare V4 has trouble accessing the network [] - ..." message when I start up Flare. The network connection ...

I had the same problem when I mistakenly imported a lot of image files. The problem was compounded by the fact that I can't see the link icons in the Content Explorer (due to a Subversion Tortoise Svn version control related issue to do with Windows Explorer overlays) so it took me an age to ...

(My issue is to do with the Import from a Flare project not including *.PDF files - I thought it was sort of related to this post )

I added *.pdf to an Import 'Include Files' list, but the PDF files are not picked up when you select ReImport (I submitted this as a software bug).

I wanted to emulate the MadCap online help Welcome topic which has links to various PDFs. I decided the best place to keep the PDFs would be under a ...

Re: "Flare v4.1 has been released, You can get this download the next time you start Flare or if you Click on Help, Check for updates!"

I started to download this but had to cancel due to other work committments. Now I don't get the prompt when I start Flare and a Check for updates says ther are no ...

RamonS wrote: "There is the trick to add MOTW to the pages (and Flare makes that easy), but that is really only intended for local consumption, so that you'd need to build a MOTW free version for the web server."

What problem does MOTW cause for the help published to the web server? Thanks. 8)

Some really interesting responses. "They often don't want to do it since it is trivial and boring. And it has to do with help" rang particularly true! :|

What about an enhancement request so that when you publish webhelp and select the "Upload Only Changed Files" option - you then have the option ...

Remember the concept of 'air plane' help? Wouldn't it be a good idea if when generating Webhelp, a self-extracting executable file was also built so that you could then somehow make updates available to those users who can't always guarantee a reliable intrenet connection and need to access a local ...

I think you my have taken my comment too seriously. I'm just jealous of your beanie that's all.

No, I'm talking about having to find and replace the tags in the content, i.e. the MadCap:conditions="SOMETAGSETNAME.SOMETAG" entries in topics or snippets or image .props files. The point is I shouldn't have to.

Does the "beanie" mean you are taken MORE or LESS seriously?

Flare version 4 has not changed in so far as a warning mesage is still displayed in the ContextTagSet Editor:
"Note: If you rename a condition tag, it is a good idea to do so before applying that tag to your content. If you rename a condition tag after you have applied it to content, your name ...

I have needed to rename ConditionTagSets several times. Anyway, I admit to using the old Robohelp Find & Replace tool to replace all instances of the old tag set name with the new one. I've done this often in the past with no dramas.
In version 4, it seems to work fine for .folders.props files and ...