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So in other words, use .NET Framework with C# or any .NET supported language for all the other main Capture features, but for more accurate,faster Capture engine that may need to interact closely with a platform's User Interface API calls, use native C or a C++ library to accomplish the deal.

Make ...

could you provide a little bit more details on this? if no one gets back to you, you might want to try madcap support if you have a maintenance contract.

Seems to me this a limitation of project linking, and possibly a wise rule to live by with modular documentation - that is, the global/parent project should stand-alone. If you start linking from the global topics to children, then those links will break when including those topics in other child ...

P.S. I did post a feature enhancement request to add support for OpenType fonts. 8)

i did too.
And i am pretty sure the MadCap heads and team would reeeally like to add OpenType font support. I am preetty sure of that.

.NET Framework 3.0/3.5 supports Open Type if i am not wrong.

There lots of ...

was referring to item 2 about the minimizing to taskbar.

2) when i minimize Capture now, it goes to an icon in the tray at the bottom of my screen instead of just appearing like Flare does... it's not a huge deal.. but it's weird.. and i haven't figured out how to close it without having to ...

all it needs is an implementation of a more versatile fractal algorithm to generate really random jaggies.

2) when i minimize Capture now, it goes to an icon in the tray at the bottom of my screen instead of just appearing like Flare does... it's not a huge deal.. but it's weird.. and i haven't figured out how to close it without having to "restore" it first.. can't just right-click and close like i do ...

htran wrote: This is a mystery. If I do figure it out, I'll post my solution, but if anyone else has had this issue and has been able to resolve it, we'd be grateful for their advice!

What version of Capture are you using?

Scott of http://www.clickstart.net and creator of the MadSkills training material for Flare is probably prepping up and finishing up a new version of his book and certification test for Flare v5. You might wanna have a look at that when it becomes available. i think he made a post somewhere only ...

There's a very strong possibility a lot of the Mimic discontents could be fixed in a very near coming version.
If the new Capture is any indication, mimic could be on a positive upstream. Am sure the MadCap team can do as well as the Ca-t-v-te team.

I first learned all I needed to know about tech writing by reading and emulating Flare's help.

i think they use About [widget x]
for concept topics. that's what i try to use mostly as well.

i think its more a monitor contrast/brightness issue as RamonS sez it. or check your display drivers to check that the contrast/brightness was not manipulated by software driver settings.

there was a post some weeks back by a user on the forums about a registry no access or something like that.
not sure how that went down.

not sure if this is any relevance there was some discussion about EMs and relative point sizing for this one.

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... ice#p30467

I've had to this on quite a few occasions.

Workaround, how about converting the whole section to a div, its a popular practice. Then moving that whole block around to where you want. Then unbind the div again to finish.


It would be nice to have some sort of document outline or topic outline view ...

Capture v5 was out on a surprisingly quiet release via the automated built in product news announcements in Flare.
All the same, here are some first impressions. Until the professional users post something more substantial.

There's lots of nice things to like in this version of Capture v5. See the ...

is there a bad sector on the disk. try a check disk then try installing .NET framework

If you have selected a word or a section of characters that are in a paragraph, only the character styles will show.

i.e. styles that are usually classes of span tag.


About applying TOC1, is there a particular reason you'd like to do this? In most cases if you want a toc with headings generated ...

I think Lisa mentioned this earlier, but one reason your TD tags are behaving differently from you TH tags is the vertical-align: top attribute in the TD cells. TH should default to vertical-align: center, so naturally it won't match.

I'm more interested in the <td> cells respecting the padding ...

MadCap Flare 5 DITA Features reviewed by Sarah O'Keefe and Alan Pringle

Part 1
Part 2

still not working?

also you might want to try reinstalling .NET Framework 3/3.5. its worked on occasion.


BTW, what's your computer running on?

Do a scan disk. Make sure there are no corrupted disk sectors. Flare depends a lot on a healthy disk, since your hard disk is literally a database to Flare.

Or you could create a span class or a generic class that has font-weight set to bold, and use Greg's process except instead of <B>Menu</B> it would be <span class="menuHilite">Menu</span> (for example). The benefit of using a class is that if you later decide you want Menu to display in a blue font ...