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Thanks for all the suggestions!

I really like the idea of using an import. Would this also work for the scenario where I'm generating the multi-language PDF from the English project?

For my English project, I'm using auto-numbered text for Notes/Tips/Warnings/Dangers/Cautions divs, so when the style is applied, the appropriate text is auto-populated.

Question : For my translated projects, would it be best to use a single .CSS with no auto-numbered text defined for these ...

Unfortunately, no. They said there is no clear workaround.

I submitted this issue to tech support, and they've confirmed this is a bug and that the page break is overriding any top margin set for the H1 property.

I just figured it out. Yesterday I modified my top-level div style to include a top and bottom border. The bottom border was being applied to the TOC proxy. I changed my MadCap|tocProxy style to the following and the borders are now gone.

MadCap|tocProxy
{
border-bottom: none 0pt;
border-top ...

Hi,

I had previously modified the default MadCap | tocProxy style to exclude the horizontal line at the top of the page. I haven't modified this style again, but for some reason, I now have a horizontal line at the end of proxy (on the first page, it's at the bottom of the page and on the second ...

I reported the merged cell border problem as a bug. If they provide a workaround or solution, I'll post it here.

I have one more related question. I also have the double-border problem if I have merged cells within a table. Is there a way to fix/control this using the td style?

That worked! Thanks Lisa!

Thanks!

I did have the Cell Border Spacing (both Vertical and Horizontal) set to zero and the Collapse Cell Borders enabled in the table style, but I'm still getting the double border. :(

I'll try turning off the borders and add the borders to the td and th tags. I'll post back with the results ...

I have a similar problem. The double horizontal border is appearing at the bottom of the table on the first page, where it splits to the second page. Like your table, I have the outer borders and separators defined as 1px solid, but don't use repeating patterns. I'm using a table style, with td and ...

According to MadCap Tech Support, multiple writers can connect to the same translation memory hosted on a network drive. If doing in-house translations, the first option is probably best to speed up the translation process. If using a translation company or if a separate department in your company ...

The headings do all start at the top of the page. I originally had all of the "chapter" topics set to flow together (I only set the chapter "start" for the first TOC entry after the front cover, as I didn't want the front cover page layout to be applied to the chapter topics).

But the spacing ...

I'm working on a printed quick start guide (a 4.75 x 4.75 "jewel case" document). For this document, I have 3 page layouts: one for the front cover, one for the chapter content and one for the back cover. Because it's a small QSG, the chapter page layout only has a single "Normal" page because we ...

Thanks for the advice!

Yeah, we have a translation vendor who has been translating our existing Flare projects (for CHM and DotNET help files) for years, but just purchased the one copy of Lingo recently. We'd like to use Lingo's packaging feature (identifies only new/modified content and packages ...

Hi,

Our techdocs team consists of 4 writers. We use ClearCase source control for all our documentation files. We want to use MadCap Lingo to analyze and package our files to send to the translation vendor. I have a copy of MadCap Lingo and used it to install a translation memory database on our ...

Lisa is correct! I was the one having the problem. As soon as I removed the background color from the body tag, the problem was solved.

Update - I found the solution for converting vector-based line graphics into PNG for use in PDFs and Webhelp outputs!

I tried a variety of methods and print tests for exporting/saving graphics from Illustrator, and was able to reproduce the best results using the following methods:
1) Open the ...

For my English projects, I've set up a global project that contains images, page layouts, snippets, stylesheets, variables, conditional tag sets and a few topics. I have three child projects that reference the global project. I'm about to begin migrating some our translated content into Flare ...

According to tech support, you currently can't delete the TM from Madcap Lingo (known bug that they hope to fix in the next version). The list is populated from the registry and the only way to clear it to uninstall/reinstall the program.

I was able to use this method to delete the database from the SQL server, but is there a way to delete it from within Madcap Lingo (so it isn't populated in the "Translation Memory" list within Lingo dialogs)?

Thanks! I filed a bug for this issue.

I'm in the process of migrating our existing English documentation from FrameMaker to Flare and need to determine the best way to leverage our existing translations. I'm taking ~15 existing individual FrameMaker books and converting them into three Flare projects, based on product family. It would ...

This just leaves the image issue. It seems I will have to place the image on the cover page in each separate project, instead of on the page layout. It does not seem to take by placing it once on the main page.

For my projects, I created a separate page layout for the front and back covers. I had ...

I'm having a similar problem, but only with my FrontMatter topics. I currently have one page layout that I use for the FrontMatter and chapters. Within the right page header, I have the following Heading variable: Level1. Within the chapters, I use "H1" as the Heading 1 style, and in the FrontMatter ...