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it takes a bit of getting used to capture. but once you've done it a few times, you will appreciate the non-destructive nature of Capture's text and overlay workflow.

Last year I attended a training class hosted by MadCap Mike and we asked him what is in store for v6.

If I remember correctly he said that most improvements for v6 will be in the flare user experience (which I think is good news). He also talked about a rather cool feature (that I can't remember ...

RamonS wrote:Possible, but I am currently hung up on the question why there is a new format with every gadget coming to market. This is unsustainable and really shouldn't be encouraged.

me too.

epub format could potentially take off with support on more 'jesus' tablets like the recent announcement on the ipad. what do you think?

i don't see any major advantages of the format at the moment, but I think i need more time to read about it.

Yes, and it may be the only option, but that requires stripping out a lot of html and style tags in order to just get the data. Perhaps I can request a future Flare enhancement.
it would be nice to have it as a simple csv. There's lots of analysis tricks you can pull in Excel or integrate into a ...

i have a pretty strong feeling team server is being put through rings of fire by the internal tech writer's of MadCap's product documentation team. If anything they've got tonnes of documentation that looks very 'single-sourced'.

what would really be cool or important in Flare 6.

The method you mentioned looks pretty sound and solid indeed.

I tend to try this

I insert x-refs, at the end of paragraphs.

bl bl bl bl. See [xref].

this is the approach i notice that the madcap help author used as well generally. also if the links all occur in one line like in a list

- [link]
- [link]

then all occurrences of [link] could be potential ...

Great stuff!

There have been times in the past, where I indeed questioned myself if the added complexity was really all that necessary. I am glad we didn't revert for our technical/help documentation with Flare.

All that staying back way past, who knows when, putting some time in on weekends - all just to ...

What was translated (into Japanese), was done in FrameMaker years ago. So, what we have is FrameMaker files in Japanese, probably with no translation memory database, and Flare projects in English. Do we create a translation memory database by importing the Japanese FrameMaker files into Flare and ...

What I meant by a master language project was our project in English. What we originally created in FrameMaker (in English) is in now Flare, or is in the process of being imported into Flare. The FrameMaker-to-Flare import has required a fair amount of reformatting, and I would rather not go ...

we don't do quality reviews.

the writers do the best they can and wait for feedback. haha!
seriously
i suppose an occasional spot check and sampling could help
making the batch builds simple, modular and command line menu, GUI like simple could help.
make a standard operating procedure out of it ...

We are completing our conversion of the master language files from FrameMaker to Flare. I would like to know if there is a way we can salvage the translation that has already been done, and in particular, can we generate a TM database that we can use going forward?. I'm not sure that there is a TM ...

(apologies if this is a duplicate post in this thread)


I ran the RegisterItcc.bat file in C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V5\Flare.app\Resources\Bin and it fixed it.



doing this works all the time....
its happened frequently enough, when i change workstations that i try to ...

A wish list for a 'press-like' version of Blaze.
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- 'Cropping' an image is simply a resizing of the viewable bounding box constraining an image. Edges of image outside the resized bounding box are easily recoverable by resizing the box.
[...]
- Formatting rules. i.e. if X happens, do ...

awargo wrote:Thanks, I think I figured out what you were talking about and am going to give it a try.

That's what we've done in some cases as well.

The images aren't missing. Something changed with the conversion of the translated text in the images. after Lingo exports the final output to a new Flare target project.


Its happens with incompatible versions of Lingo and new versions of Flare.

Jasper, what version of Lingo and MadCap Flare are you using?

analyzer works great for us so far.

Yes, i've put in a few requests on this as well...For globally imported projects, the ability to tell which global import source it is coming from. At the moment all you have is a 'chained' shortcut overlay i think. nonethelesss good suggestion! Post it up!

I think I added a feature request probably quite a long time ago about being able to Copy/Paste pictures, but in reality the feature request I would really want would be that I should be able to take a Word Document, Select All and Copy and Paste into a Flare topic and have it show up 99+% as it ...

I do know that it still has a problem with the GIF output, so you'd have to save them as PNGs, which aren't as small as GIFs, but are supported in browsers (although IE6 doesn't display the transparencies correctly).

Capture has its good points, but I wouldn't actually recommend it at all for ...