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Ignoring any Source Control SW (since i don't use any), I think you are saying that you did create a separate source project (that you call 'Standard' and that I called 'ProductSingleSource') that is not used directly for any output, but which contain topics/pages/files/ which are imported into ...

1. I don't recommend setting the ovreflow of the header to "hidden": What if the heading is long and the line breaks? You cannot read it then. Put it to "auto" instead.
2. You might get away with not stating a height at all. With "overflow: auto;" the content will (hopefully) simply take the space ...

Tech writers are mainly specialists: Some are good in language, some are good at making concepts, some are good at computer tech, but most are good at whatever they describe, such as machines, airplanes, toasters, mobile phones (for Americans: cell phones), TV sets, power stations, ...
And I can ...

Love - we know how much you love MS. - That's not the point.
The point is that MS is liable for what its software does or does not do. You don't stand a chance with open source.
And that freedom is abused by open source developers: They publish everything they consider ready - usually without ...

Wiki and Linux are both about 20 years old. And where are they?
What open source developers do is mainly playing around with their favoured toys. It mostly lacks professionalism utterly for the very simple reason that they don't have to accept liability for their opus and whatever goes wrong if you ...

A GUI you can modify is handy. That's why so many people use Tortoise. There are other front ends for SVN, CVS, etc. The developers who maintain the SVN project have a single goal, and that's to make sure that their server is rock solid. They leave OS integration in the form of a GUI to others. The ...

Thanks for the thought, Mr. Thief. I've done exactly that, but as Mr. I-Tietz has suggested, for webhelp output, it appears that all files are processed regardless. I created a condition to exclude all topics that don't belong (about 98% of them), then applied the condition en masse through the ...

The only hitch that might show up with SVN is in how you access the server. If you bind the project to a repository using "svn+ssh://releng@scm.yourdomain.com/" you'll have an issue with SVN within Flare because your SSH credentials somehow get tangled into the system and other writers won't be ...

font-size: 31pt; ... looks like inline formatting applied to the heading. Get rid of it. Use the stylesheet for formatting.

And have you tried with different browsers? And with different browser versions?

The only hitch that might show up with SVN is in how you access the server. If you bind the project to a repository using "svn+ssh://releng@scm.yourdomain.com/" you'll have an issue with SVN within Flare because your SSH credentials somehow get tangled into the system and other writers won't be ...

VSS doesn't have the horsepower to handle help projects with multiple writers. I've been down that path. It was a horrible experience. We overloaded the VSS server the first time three writers simultaneously saved large projects. The developers screamed bloody murder.
We are using it for 4,5 years ...

And:
- Has a folder in that path, or the png itself, got a condition that is excluded in the target?

Include won't work the way you want it to -- you have to Exclude the content that you don't want in the output. (It doesn't exclude everything that isn't marked as Include, instead it includes everything that isn't marked as excluded -- how's that for a mouthful of a sentence?)
It's even worse ...

Ok - one system more: MS Visual Sorce Safe (VSS).
We use the version 2005 and have no performance problems whatsoever. But Flare has its problems with it, although it's a SC tool Flare officially supports ... e.g.:
I check in everything of a project and delete my local copy of it. Some time later I ...

As far as I know in webhelp the TOC is not relevant for the volume of the output.
Do you use conditions to reduce the number of topics for the smaller webhelp? Or do you have the same number of topics in both outputs and just have a smaller TOC in one of them (for whatever reason you might have for ...

Yes, Flare has far more problems with losing the focus than any other software I use (FM, Office, Lotus, graphics software). I type a few words, save (CTRL + s) and have to click into the topic again and even into the right position, because I cannot go on typing otherwise. Flare loses focus very ...

In the Content Explorer, I leave all my topics listed alphabetically under the Content folder (and there are MANY). I condition for Print and Web either inside the topic or in the TOC, but I also use some visual conditions in the Content Explorer. I'll apply an 'In Progress' condition (in Content ...

HelenF wrote:No, the non-breaking space is appearing in topics that have only been edited in Flare.

Really? How did you do that, then?
Whenever I use SHIFT+Blank in Flare it doesn't produce a   but a   ...

Sounds like really good examples.
For help I would add popups and dropdowns/togglers to the list. Drawback with popups: Unprintable in context with the "actual" topic.

AND: Please stick to one form in each output.
Don't 1. use sidebars in this topic because what you have to say is not long and it ...

We have three main projects and another four small projects that share files and are in a database of a souce control software (MS VSS 2005). We also have a set of six conditions that we use for targets. Three of them are for one project only.
As you see we use both: conditions for targets and ...

Replace the the class span.NeedsAttention with a generic class: .NeedsAttention .
That sort of class you can assign to ANYTHING - doesn't matter if it's a span or a paragraph.
Then you will have to do a global find&replace: class="NeedsAttention" => class=".NeedsAttention"

I did that to float ...

Can anyone tell me how to get a tweeter and linkedin share button added to my Webhelp content? I found the script to add facebook and added it to my masterpage. That appears to be working fine, but nothing I try will add the tweeter and linkedin buttons.
I'm curious: What do you want to do that ...

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The floating session has timed out.

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With Flare 8 I can go for a floating session? Whehew! Maybe I should install it again then ... floating is so relaxing ... transcendental ... sort of ... sighhhhh ...

If you're printing from the PDF it's a matter of print settings (page margins) and printer hardware. Printers take off a few millimeters from each side of a sheet, for the very simple reason that standard printers cannot get near enough to the edge ... you can do thar with high-end digital printing ...