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by forfear
Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:16 pm
Forum: MadCap Lingo General Discussion
Topic: Translation Memory Removal
Replies: 5
Views: 4800

Re: Translation Memory Removal

You could run a quick command line query to drop (SQL parlance for delete the database) the test databases you created. but the actual command escapes me at this point.

but i'll show you a quick graphical method to perform the task you need.

Go to Microsoft downloads.
If you are using SQL Server ...
by forfear
Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:07 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Searching for partial string in generated (Web)Help
Replies: 25
Views: 15871

Re: Searching for partial string in generated (Web)Help

put it in quotes?
So Webelp searches for a match for the whole term?
by forfear
Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:44 pm
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Capture not removing watermark after trial use
Replies: 3
Views: 3381

Re: Capture not removing watermark after trial use

You could batch process all the images with Capture v5 ( i think), so it'll automatically open all Capture images automatically-and remove all the watermarks for you as well.
by forfear
Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:52 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Myriad Pro Cond font not working for print medium
Replies: 26
Views: 23655

Re: Myriad Pro Cond font not working for print medium

i think this would fit into that ever building request for
Open Type font support.

Am pretty sure the dev team are on these since a lot professional type foundries are moving towards this standard font format
by forfear
Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:57 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Odd tags spread throughout topics
Replies: 13
Views: 4346

Re: Odd tags spread throughout topics

Do a find and replace
be sure to search in code

and repeat find and replace each time with the following find entry

<span></span>

and


<b></b>


that should be about it
by forfear
Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:47 am
Forum: MadCap Lingo General Discussion
Topic: Lingo 3 ads are smashing
Replies: 0
Views: 2132

Lingo 3 ads are smashing

i didn't notice before, but once the lingo 3 ads complete their download, they are quick smashing. whoever does their regular banner ads is pretty good with flash. impressive! broadcast quality indeed.
by forfear
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:38 am
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Translating callouts on screen captures
Replies: 3
Views: 2932

Re: Translating callouts on screen captures

you got it about right Amy.
by forfear
Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:44 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Tech Comms Book - Your Attention, Please
Replies: 7
Views: 3247

Tech Comms Book - Your Attention, Please

This may appear a bit out of topic, but I think its relevant generally for tech commers authoring professionally with Flare/Word, with all the single-sourcing, XML, ideas going around. Sometimes good not to lose sight of the basics.

I am just beginning in the first few chapters of this book, "Your ...
by forfear
Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:22 pm
Forum: Single-Sourcing
Topic: Multiple webhelp sites - same content folder
Replies: 4
Views: 4662

Re: Multiple webhelp sites - same content folder


Make sure that you create a folder for each product and a common folder and then build the content up in there while still keeping everything in one Flare project. That should work out OK if you do not have to document extensive enterprise applications with 1,000 or more forms each and bazillion ...
by forfear
Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:14 pm
Forum: MadCap Lingo General Discussion
Topic: Index keywords and Concepts fail to translate.
Replies: 4
Views: 4943

Re: Index keywords and Concepts fail to translate.

i know this is odd.

are the projects in any way linked to TFS or some source control. Sometimes when you export its possible, that the files may have been automatically synced back with a server.

Also did you remember to save the files after they were edited. I think the concept keywords don't ...
by forfear
Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:10 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: New book On Flare!
Replies: 20
Views: 14066

Re: New book On Flare!

Go for it scott! Look forward to Flare 6 and 7. yeah!!!!
by forfear
Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:06 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Index number spacing
Replies: 4
Views: 2239

Re: Index number spacing

no its not possible yet to create indexes the way you want yet. There is a workaround down. It involves a bit of digging into the actual index proxy stylesheet in the madcap.css file or something like that.

If i am not wrong, the MadCap devs are already looking into this.

you could however ...
by forfear
Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:23 am
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Images not refreshing (Capture holding on to old image data)
Replies: 3
Views: 4180

Re: Images not refreshing (Capture holding on to old image data)

something you might wanna get in touch with the support folks.
by forfear
Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:20 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: There is actually a good reason to reorganize Content folder
Replies: 0
Views: 1056

There is actually a good reason to reorganize Content folder

As i work on integrating more Flare projects,

i fidn there is indeed value in embedding your actual project content under another sub content folder..for example

Before

- Content
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Reference Guide
- Features
- Resources

now...

- Content
- <Project Name ...
by forfear
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:21 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: What would be the coolest thing
Replies: 2
Views: 1671

What would be the coolest thing

if you inserted a line diagram, an organization chart, a business diagram or a company logo as a vector graphic

if you exported it to word, it gets embedded in Word as its native EMF file format. That means no file format conversion required.
if you exported it to PDF, it gets output as a scalable ...
by forfear
Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:44 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Content Explorer/Organizing Folders question
Replies: 7
Views: 3177

Re: Content Explorer/Organizing Folders question

my 2 cents
after you rename the folders, close any open topics that you have open in the workspace. This is so that you don't save any topics to the old folder (creating the folder names) its a long shot but a possibility, albeit low one in this scenario.


The initial troubleshooting checking ...
by forfear
Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:12 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: About button logo image looks awful
Replies: 23
Views: 13951

Re: About button logo image looks awful

best to post a formal bug report.

A good and valid post.
by forfear
Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:10 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Should Madcap merge Cross References and Hyperlinks?
Replies: 25
Views: 13739

Re: Should Madcap merge Cross References and Hyperlinks?

My response to this post is...

No.

Cross-references and hyperlinks may both do the same thing, link you to other documents (or parts of documents).

But they both serve different types of linking mechanisms for different mediums.
by forfear
Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Defining a "style-after" style
Replies: 28
Views: 22420

Re: Defining a "style-after" style

I really must find some way to make this topic sticky or a favourites...3rd time on i had to search the forums for this one tip. :)
by forfear
Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:31 am
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Blur effect change unused?
Replies: 5
Views: 3395

Re: Blur effect change unused?

If you use the latest Flare 5 you can reapply the profile to all recurring instances of the blur inside rectangle.
otherwise by default, if you already have a blur inside rectangle applied to ascreenshot, and you change the settings in the capture profile, it won't be applied to the existing ...
by forfear
Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:34 am
Forum: Capture's General Discussion
Topic: Blur effect change unused?
Replies: 5
Views: 3395

Re: Blur effect change unused?

If you use the latest Flare 5 you can reapply the profile to all recurring instances of the blur inside rectangle.
otherwise by default, if you already have a blur inside rectangle applied to ascreenshot, and you change the settings in the capture profile, it won't be applied to the existing ...
by forfear
Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:05 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Cool flash banner animations for Flare 5
Replies: 0
Views: 1093

Cool flash banner animations for Flare 5

They're at it again, some pretty new snazzy swanky flashy banners on the main madcap website for Flare 5. its like a broadcast quality commercial indeed.
Smooth stuff.
by forfear
Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:00 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Flare is trying to tell me something!
Replies: 3
Views: 1908

Re: Flare is trying to tell me something!

You can click the messages tab.
You can click Save Log in the build window.


But if you are referring to the background Messages pane, not the one in the main build window,

if you see something like CSS: Missing linked stylesheet file..

you may not need to worry
because if you have Global Linking ...
by forfear
Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:21 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: page break?
Replies: 19
Views: 10102

Re: page break?

this is not a solution but in some instances it might work.

Try DIV (grouping the picture and figure caption tags together)
And in the style sheet set DIV's to avoid page-break inside.

See if that gives you better results.

Its not a 100% but sometimes it helps to give slightly better control ...