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I don't think it's unreasonable to expect WYSIWYG from a HAT. And, as a general rule of the thumb, if MS Word has a button for it, then I think it's reasonable for Flare to also do so. Some of us don't enjoy messing around with .css and just want to get the documentation done.

Thanks. Strangely, I was rather expecting a powerful expensive tool such as Flare to have a button for this...

Hi folks - I've been very grateful for all the help I've received here so far...

Is there a way of tricking/fooling/configuring Flare to add shadows to images, in this case screencaps for PDF output?

I've tried tinkering with borders and margins, but to no avail.

Cheers and thanks in advance ...

Hi guys

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions as to the following:

What standards should I set for screen captures for use in both pdf and web output?

E.g. .png? .jpg?

Any particular resolution?

Anything else I should think about?

Cheers and thanks in advance
Martin

We just upgraded to the latest version of Flare. It's nicer than before, except some unthinking person has removed the option to cross-reference an open topic. I'm flabbergasted!

In real documentation, especially inherited legacy stuff, or where the UI has evolved, the topic names don't always ...

This is all very well, but...

.... how do I tell Flare to just accept whatever formatting the rest of the paragraph has? (Some of my table text is blue.)

And, I must say, there really should be a button for this in the target.

Hi folks

I've been tasked to produce field-level help* for a web application.
*I appreciate this may be no longer fashionable.

Some fields have a "?" button. Clicking the button has to open a popup window with documentation just for that field.

How do I tell Flare to display this in a browser ...

I'd rather not do this via the css styles themselves - way too fiddly.

I tried tweaking the Body padding and margin settings; no result!

Is there some cunning way to do this globally?

At the risk of lookign stupid, does anybody know if it is possible to get a server version of Flare - you know the kind of thing, one installation, one repository, but several licenses?

Or, is that what TeamServer is for?

(Forgive me if this has been discussed - the forum search says "index" is too common a term to look for!)

It would be very nice indeed if Flare had an index editor which enabled you to edit the keywords as they appear in the index, and then propagated the changes to the index markers in the topics ...

LTinker68 wrote:Check your auto-number style and see if you have its display property set to block or table. Block is the default setting for paragraphs.

Nice try, but alas no.

Thanks!

Just to clarify:

The paragraphs of autonumbered styles are not supposed to be inside a table!

The gridlines just appear as soon as I add borders to the td style.

The td style shouldn't affect the autonumbered styles, but it does.

alaltenburg wrote:How does it mess up your tables when borders are switched off? That seems to me the only fix if you turn borders off.

Andrea

The borders are the internal gridlines. Not having them messes up the format and usability of the tables.

Yes, we're turning them off for now. Have already lodged a bug.

In WebHelp output, my AutoNumbered* styles inherit gridlines from the td style (see below).

UnwantedGridInAutoNumberedStyle.PNG

If I switch off the borders in td, the issues goes away. However, this messes up my tables**.

Does anybody know a sensible workaround?


*I'm using AutoNumbered styles ...

The solution is to open the topic in a text editor and remove the margin code from the table tag. That will allow the settings in your CSS to be used.

If you think this is a bad way for Flare to behave, please send Madcap a bug report. If enough of us complain maybe they'll fix it.

http://www ...

Hi folks

Help! I can't get the Table Margins to work.

I created a Table Style .css, and set Table Margin/Left to "50mm". No indent in the prieview view. No indent in the output.

I also followed the instructions in the knowledge base ( http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_Left.htm#CSHID=Patches ...

Thanks! Actually I've resolved the issue by using the debugger and guessing how the Java maps to the Skin settings.

The problem was in the skin, namely in Styles/ToolbarItem/Logo/Properties/Basic/OnClick.

It turns out that the setting really does want a JavaScript and not a URL.

Deleting the ...

I have investigated further. The same issue appears for other projects.

Problems with this Web page might prevent it from displaying properly...(etc)
Line:676
Char:17
Code:0
URL:....\WebHelp\Skin\Toolbr.htm

We're using Flare 3.1.0, with Internet Explorer 6.0.

No custom scripts.

Another error message indicates problem is in /skin/toolbar.htm

(Thanks for responding so quickly!)

Hi folks

Using Flare 3.1. Viewed with IE, my WebHelp generates the following message:

ERROR
A Runtime Error has occurred
Do you wish to Debug?

Line:675
Error: Syntax error

Obviously, I can work around this by tinkering with the IE settings (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822521). However, I'd ...

When pasting text from Word into Flare, I can't seem to preserve para breaks. Any ideas anybody?

Cheers and thanks
MHP