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Lisa, thanks for the tip.

Tom

I have another problem I'm running into. My notes, tips, and cautions have a border around them, but they aren't in a table. Sometimes when I generate my printed output in Word, the note paragraph breaks from one page to another. Is there any property I can apply to the paragraph so that the ...

I have a special class called keep that I apply to content that I want to keep with the next item. For example, I have p.keep, li.keep, p.result_keep classes. Each of these classes has the page-break-after:avoid attribute. It's kind of a pain to apply them, but it does work. For example, with each ...

The reviewer tries to send a topic back to me and sees an error saying mapisvc.inf can't be found. Of the three reviewers using X-edit, two receive this same sort of error in sending the file back to me.

I had trouble with the stylesheet link disappearing in previous versions, but I haven't experimented with it long enough to see if I still have that problem. I think it too is a matter of the ../ being removed before the Resources folder in the stylesheet link.

Re not being able to see the ...

After a reviewer receives a topic I sent him (by going to File > Review), he makes a few annotations and tries to send it back to me. But when he clicks Return to Sender, he gets an error message. (Sorry -- I don't have the error msg in front of me and forgot to write it down.) Is anyone having any ...

I'm convinced Flare 4 has a bug in which the madcap.css styles have priority over those in the regular stylesheet. I tried for quite a while yesterday to style my online mini-TOC links, but without success. So I reverted to this workaround.

1. Go to C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V4 ...

Thanks for your response, Dave. I guess I'm still confused about where madcap.css is coming from. Is it a stylesheet produced by Madcap on the fly when you generate a target? I'm assuming that any styles set in my regular stylesheet will override those set in madcap.css, but that's not the case in ...

The styles for my mini-TOC are as follows:

MadCap|miniTocProxy
{
background-image: url('../Images/toolboxbg.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color: #e8e6da;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-right: 10px;
background-position: top left;
border: solid 1px #ccc9be;
margin-top: 0px ...

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Tom

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so what is the solution? i'm finding that my images are blurry, and I don't have any resizing settings in my img tag.

Do figure references work in print targets? I see the message "Format auto number commands cannot be convereted to Word output" when I build my Word target.

I'm thinking that I might try a macro in Word. It's too bad the background images don't print to Word.

I'd like to use background images in my stylesheet for all my notes, tips, and cautions. The only problem is, I'm not just creating an online help file, but am generating to print too. When I generate to print, the background images don't show. Is there a workaround for this scenario, where the ...

I hadn't even thought about the scenario of a user printing out a page with images from online help.

Here's how I do my images. I'm not so excited about it, so maybe someone has a better suggestion for me.

I capture a screenshot using SnagIt, usually circle something in the image, and then save it ...

I read an article today that said, "On March 17, MadCap announced the launch of its XML Documentation Suite to provide a native XML alternative to Adobe. The product offers authoring, review, collaboration, analysis, translation, and localization tools, including an authoring tool that supports DITA ...

You're right. I missed that step. I was a little unfamiliar with the auto-numbering property. This topic helped clarify that more: "Creating Auto-Number Formats for Styles."

It did work when I added an auto-numbering property to my image style. Thanks,

Tom

Thanks for your reply, Kevin. However, I'm having trouble implementing the method you described. Here's what I'm doing:

1. In the Style editor, I added a "figurereference" class to the xref style, and then gave it the format See Figure {paranum}.
2. I added a bookmark to an image and named the ...

Yes, you can do cross references to bookmarks and headings, but figure references are different. Usually figures are labeled in sequential order such as Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc. If you use Flare's cross reference feature for figure captions, you have to specify the bookmark name. So in my ...

I don't think so. Cross references point to page numbers. Figure references point to figure captions. One page may have several figure captions.

In Word, I insert figure references by going to Insert > Reference > Cross Reference, and then I choose Figure in the Reference Type drop down.

In Flare ...

How do you create figure references to captions in Flare? In Word, this technology is available. But I have no idea how to do it in Flare. I'm assuming it can't be done, right?

Thanks. I'll check that out. Glad to know it's a possibility.

I have what feels like an impossible problem on my hands. I need to export my content into a format that can be imported into a Remedy database that our Support team uses to log incidents. Does Flare offer any kind of format that provides one long HTML file? In the Webhelp target, l I see are ...

Word doesn't quite work. If you try to put all the content into a table, when you generate a PDF, it repeats some of the previous content from the bottom of each page at the top. Let me just say that Word is not my favorite tool. I should have used InDesign, but Flare doesn't export into that format ...

Okay, I'm using the tables in Word route, but I'm ending up doing a lot of manual formatting. Still haven't figured out how to create a break in a table cell. Oh well. It looks good.