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Does anyone have any experience that they can share with getting a Pulse server into production? What was the timeline and what tasks were involved from planning to implementation? I am trying to put something together for management that will outline this process and provide some time and resource ...

It has been a long hard slog.

When we first started, the REST API wasn't too big and just covered the basics. One of the developers dumped it all into a Work doc and I imported it to Flare and then did a lot of clean up and re-org, etc. Since then it has grown to about 4x that size or more and ...

I have great interest in this subject.

We have an extensive REST API. I have a nearly 400 pages worth of API documentation in a Flare project, but finding ways to automate some of this would be awesome. It is incredibly time-consuming. Being able to take a WADL and XSD and then apply an XSLT easily ...

I want to use a non-breaking space in a cross-ref ("{paratext}" on page {page}). Basically, I do not want the word "page" and the page number to be separated when the line wraps. Is there a special code or something I can use?

About 90% of my developers are on Mac (well, really Linux on a Mac). I would love to start using the Contributor tool to do reviews and get content from them, but the Windows thing would be a deal-breaker. I have moved all of my end-user docs into Flare, but I still have most of the other stuff (API ...

Has anyone found a way to include a non-breaking space in the cross-ref? I cannot seem to get Flare to do one in the stylesheet editor. Perhaps something I can do in the CSS file if I take it into Notepad or something? I really hate it when "page" is at the end of the line and the number is by ...

Thanks for putting this together, Gary.

I already had specific styles for managing page breaks that I carried over from my FrameMaker source (BodywithNext, NumberedwithNext, etc.). I am a big believer in "no overrides," so I have been managing page breaks that way for quite some time in Frame ...

My headings typically have a good size "space above" setting so that there is white space between it and the preceding topic/section, but if the heading occurs at the top of a page I do not want that spacing. Same with body text, but there it is much less noticable. FrameMaker does this ...

I am currently working on building a project, along with all of the necessary CSSs, page layouts, etc. so that we can output both Help and PDF directly from Flare. It will be awhile before I have it all worked out so that I can reproduce what we are able to generate from FrameMaker. Pagination is ...

I reported this bug back in February, and I received a response from Tech Support that indeed this was a defect and has been present since 4.0 (I was wanting to roll back in order to avoid this problem). The 3.1 version did not do this, so this is a significant regression in my book.

Anyway, it ...

Never mind.... seems to be working now. I can't imagine why it didn't before.

But I am glad that all is well now.

I have nearly finished replicating our FrameMaker page layouts in Flare and am working on some of the nitty gritty items.

We want to generate PDF directly from Flare so that we can generate both Webhelp and PDF targets from the same topic files. When we crate PDF from FrameMaker, the cross ...

Well I entered information about the defect, but in the meantime I will need to go back to 4.1. (At least I hope that 4.1 will not have this hideous defect, but I did not have a chance to really play with that version).

Does anyone know how to go about that? Does Windows have some sort of "roll ...

I have this for my import settings:

Importsettings.png

And this for the WebHelp output:

Importsettings.png

In Flare 3.1, turning all of this stuff off kept it from messing with any of the graphics. And that is what I want.

There appears to be code in each topic that specifies a size for the ...

In Flare 3.1, if you turned off the "Preserve SIze" option in the FrameImport, it did not mess with the graphic files at all. Now with 4.2, I have both the "Preserve Image Size" and the "Generate Images for Anchored Frames" options turned off and it is still re-sizing them.

I always use PNG ...