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Wow, that's easy! I thought this was a bug or something. Guess I should have dug deeper! Thanks!

When I generate a PDF from Flare, at the bottom of the PDF's Bookmarks panel (below the entries to the last section of the manual) is a "Bookmarks" section with links to all Flare bookmarks that were used for cross-references in the document. Is there a way to exclude these? I can manually delete ...

Ah, now I get it. Thanks for the explanation! :)

Now I just need to debate the pros and cons of switching our current HTML lists to auto-number paragraph styles. I like the simplicity of the HTML lists, and being able to control the nested lists using the complex selectors.

I guess another option ...

Thanks for the suggestions!

The first is to do what cbdebris mentions and use paragraph classes with auto-number formats instead of the standard HTML lists.

This is probably user error on my part... But I may be misunderstanding what I should be doing? To recreate, I created a paragraph class ...

Thanks!

The style I have auto-populates the word "Note" and the formatting is correct, but my problem is trying to include several notes within a list. For example, this is what I'm trying to achieve:
note_list.png

But if I have an ordered list and want to include several notes that are indented ...

Good point. I do plan to produce both print and online versions of these documents...which brings up another related issue. If the topics are too small, they seem strange when viewed from webhelp since you only see the single topic.

When importing files from FrameMaker to Flare, you have to determine which styles are used to create new topics (within the "New Topic Styles" tab of the import file). So far when importing, I have specified that H1, H2, H3 (and sometimes H4, depending on the document) styles be used for new topic ...

I am in the process of migrating from Frame to Flare. I've gone through the process of setting up my stylesheet, but realized there are a few issues when beginning the actual import/format process. In Frame, if we had several notes that needed to be included, we would insert a "Note" table that ...

Hi amatsumoto,

I'm also 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 ...

I followed up with tech support about this, and they said that although the bulk of the code base still uses the .NET Framework version 2.0, they've been moving incrementally toward newer versions for certain features in order to take advantage of the expanded functionality of the newer versions of ...

I'm using Flare 6.0. The tech support person said that they won't migrate to .NET Framework 3.0 until Flare 8.0...?

According to Flare tech support regarding the error for the Frutiger font, this is due to a bug in the .NET Framework 2.0. This bug has been fixed in .NET 3.0 but Flare hasn't migrated to it yet.

Thanks! I have a few more questions... :)

1) For now, I think I’m going to use option 2, with a single parent project and a separate child project for each product family (see graphic below). Using this method, I could create the “Global” directories for the shared parent files. But, if I ...

Thanks! This makes me feel slightly more confident about trying it out. :)

I need to figure out the best strategy for our documentation.
- We'll be outputting about 15 different printed documents (3/4 of them are installation manuals and about 1/4 are QSGs).
- For each printed manual, we'll also ...

Or would it make more sense to have a single "parent" project with several smaller "child" projects and using the global project linking feature? I'm testing it out now, so I'm not sure what the limitations might be, but it seems like it could be a good solution.

Thanks! A lot of the content does contain overlapping information. For these scenarios, I'm hoping to reduce the number of overall topics and use variables for the different product names. In addition, we have a few manuals that describe the installation of several of our products together (for ...

Is there a recommended limit for the number of outputs that we produce from a single project? I'm in the process of porting our existing documentation from FrameMaker to Flare and need to determine how many projects to create. Ideally, we want to make changes in a single location, so we're leaning ...

I'm having a similar problem. I'm trying to use Frutiger 67 Bold Condensed font for the front covers of our manuals. When I attempt to generate the PDF output, the Build dialog displays the following error: "Failed to convert to PDF font: Frutiger LT COM 67 Bold Cn. Using default font: Helvetica ...

I need to generate two outputs using the same content: a hardware installation manual and quick start guide. The manual is 8" x 11" and the quick start guide is a booklet that's 4.75" x 4.75". Within the installation manual, we include line drawings with each set of installation steps, but in the ...

That worked! I had to delete a bunch of the font-weight: Normal instances, but now I can see the changes to the th and td styles. Thanks!!

Probably a silly question, but...I removed the font properties from the table style (for the header, rows and footer) and modified the th and td style in the default medium to the following:

th
{
font-size: 8pt;
page-break-inside: avoid;
font-weight: bold;
}

td
{
font-size: 8pt;
page-break ...

Hi,

I need to generate two outputs using the same content: a user's manual and quick start guide. The user's manual is 8" x 11" and the quick start guide is a booklet that's 4.75" x 4.75". I was able to create two different style mediums to control the look of the text for both outputs, but I'm ...

Thanks! Yeah, I've got the Empty pages working correctly in my chapter page layouts (with headers, footers, etc.), but I was wondering more about the case where you have a page layout devoted solely to blank (empty) pages. I'll try out your suggestion below and see if it works better than the back ...

I was wondering about that too. Is it common practice to have a "blank" page layout that contains a single page with a body frame that you use for these scenarios?

Weird...that worked! But only if I put the Body frame on top of the existing Image frame. If I put the Body frame under the Image Frame, the empty page disappears. I had to do something similar for the Front Cover, but instead of inserting the Body frame on the Normal page, I had to insert it on the ...