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I've almost got my page layouts figured out - with the exception of the back cover. For the back cover, I need a blank (empty) page and then the back cover.

For PDF outputs, I need to include a single blank page (no headers, footers or body frames) before the back cover. I currently have 3 page ...

Ah...make sense. Thanks for the explanation! There's so much to figure out...

Lisa's right (of course!) that you can apply the bolding right in the auto-number format. But like her, I do prefer the span class approach. I single-source Help and print docs (and differently formatted print docs at that) from the same project. I might have "Note: " bolded in the Help, but in one ...

I agree. From what I've read page layouts are definitely the way to go for printed targets.

Regarding the page number formatting, another option is to create footer styles. When you click F2 within the Footer frame, you can select the style rather than applying inline formatting.

Of course, as soon as I post this, I try something that works! When attempting this before, I had an empty page that didn't contain any frames. I just added a body frame to the empty page, regenerated the PDF, and no more duplicate title pages/empty pages. Not sure why a body frame was required on ...

I'm in the process of setting up my page layouts, and I'm running into a problem with the title page.

I have one page layout set up for the chapters, that contains the following pages: first, left, right, and blank. When the PDF is generated, these pages appear correctly. I have a second page ...

I do have a background color applied to the body tag! I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks!

I'm new to printed outputs too, so hopefully this helps. :)

You can control what's included in the TOC proxy by modifying the PrintSupport > mc-heading-level property for your heading styles. The value you assign to the mc-heading-level corresponds with how it will appear in the TOC Proxy. If you ...

Hi,

I'm just starting to work with page layouts. I'm in the process of creating a First Page to use for chapters. After creating the header frame, I modified the Background to include a Solid color and specified light gray (#cccccc) as the Fill Start and Fill End colors. I then added a 10 pt ...

Thanks Lisa! I submitted the bug report for this issue.

I've tried outputting to PNG from Illustrator, but so far, the results haven't been as good. There are at least 3 ways to save to PNG from Illustrator (export/save for web and devices/save for Microsoft Office), so maybe I just haven't found ...

Here's the div style that I'm using for the Caution. I'm still new to CSS, so it's very possible that I may not have configured this correctly.

div.Caution
{
color: #000000;
background-image: url('../Images/Caution_PDF.wmf');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position-x: left ...

It appears this way in both the preview and the output.

Here's how it looks in the XML editor: And here's how it looks in the preview:

We're in the process of migrating from FrameMaker to Flare. When using FrameMaker, we created all of our graphics in Illustrator and directly referenced the Illustrator file from FrameMaker. Now that we're moving to Flare, I need to figure out the best method for saving or exporting the graphics ...

When creating a note style, I selected a WMF graphic as the background image and set it "no repeat", but when I view the style in a topic, the image horizontally repeats at least 3 times. If I instead reference a BMP image, it appears correctly, without the repeat. This is an obstacle because the ...

I'm still trying to figure out the Div tags myself, but I've found that if you use the Create Group dialog box to insert the Div, you are able to add lists within the Div itself. For example, place the cursor at the Div insertion point within the topic and select Format > Group (or click the Tab key ...

Thanks! I thought this might be the case.

Even though the default "print" and "non-print" mediums aren't added to/referenced from the stylesheet, I'd like like to be able to delete (or at least rename) these mediums to reduce clutter/confusion in the medium drop-down list. I'm creating a project ...

Is it possible to delete or rename the default style sheet mediums (default, print and non-print)? I need to use different names for our mediums, and I'd prefer not to have several mediums in the list that aren't being used.

This might help:
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... Output.htm

I think figured it out! I created this project as a test project to get familiar with the FrameMaker import process. When importing FrameMaker files, all graphics that Flare automatically generates are included in the same folder as the topics, rather than the standard Flare Content/Resources/Images ...

Actually, I did run into a problem when attempting to output to PDF (but not when outputting to Webhelp or HTML help). I received the following error for all of the graphics linked from the CSS file:
---------------------------------------------
<LogEntry
File="../../Content/Resources/Stylesheets ...

Thankfully, i won't have to output to Word. We will be outputting to PDF, Webhelp and HTML help.

Thanks for the responses! I was able to recreate it using a paragraph style. I just had to increase the Left Padding, so that the actual text is to the right of the Caution graphic. But once the paragraph style was created, I still had to figure out a way to allow for a bulleted list within the ...

I'm in the process of transitioning from FrameMaker to Flare, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to recreate our notes/cautions/warnings styles.

In FrameMaker, we created a different table and two paragraph styles for each type of note. The table style included two columns with an ...

I already submitted this issue to Flare tech support, but it might be a good idea to make other users aware of the problem before they get too far into the process.

Here's the problem we're experiencing:
We have an in-house technical writer who translates our content into Japanese. I helped her set ...

Hi,

We're currently using Madcap Flare and Rational ClearCase. We're creating branches for all of the major software releases and sub-branches for the minor software releases. While ClearCase works well for software developers because they can do automated merges, we're having to manually update ...