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Sounds like a great idea.
The FAQ could also provide links to the KB through the use of a CSH call. The "article#" of each topic is the CSHID for that topic.
Example (opens the release notes for V6):
http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_CSH.htm#GEN1025F

Or you could call the topic. When you find ...

HTML Help is very specific to its environment.
Be sure in the Flare project, you have the language settings set correctly in the Target file which tell the compiler how to proceed.

How about creating a new project and using the Global Project linking feature (see help file).
Condition the 12 topics with a condition such as "import" or whatever condition that is unique to those 12.
Create a new project - Set up an import file (Project -> Import File -> Add Flare Import File ...

Again, I dont know your requirements, but in the web world - 800x600 is a good sized image at 72dpi or 300dpi but its probably much to wide for a PDF document who is limited on width by the page size.
Example:
If a pic has a width of 800 px and resolution of 300 dpi it should print at a width of 2 ...

Ryan,
Resizing the images is probably the problem here.
If you resize a 5mb image in Flare, its going to re-generate a new image from the original one. 5mb + 4mb = 9mb and thats a single image.
In the target on the advanced tab, there is an option for this in the Options section. The Help explains ...

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We need your help once again so we can continue making MadCap Lingo better.
In an effort to proved support for Term Base usage, we are looking for samples of TBX-Basic (Term Base eXchange) files for testing reasons.

If you have some and would like to help us out, Please send me a message and get ...

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We are trying to gain a perspective outside our data stores..
Please fill out the quick responses and THANK YOU.

Please make sure you have the proxy inserted in the correct topics or in the master page correctly.

Yes the bug has been reported and will be fixed in the next version.
details and work around:
The Grouping issue is a bug and we are working on it. There is a work-around for it.
Once you create ...

That file is from Compact SQL Database and is created so wildcard/faster searches can be done in Flare help system.
Thats a difficult issue I would imagine with many applications if your desktop storage space is limiting your user profile appdata directory size.

There is also an option in the ...

Yes and its not hard to do.
Open your style sheet in Flare and make sure your under Advanced view.
Click on the A style
Click on the "Add Class" on the CSS tool bar.
Type "MiniTOC1" for the Class name.
Open the attributes of the class once its created.
Edit the Link and Visited colors to your ...

The "Label" field for the Logo is not supported for the Logo style. Its not part of the property group.
Ive submitted a bug that the Skin editor only display the supported properties for each style.

Open the Skin to the styles tab.
Click on the Logo style.
On the right top, choose "Alphabetical ...

When I publish and try to browse "startpage.htm", I get a file not found error that says it's looking for "/Content/content/introduction.htm".

Publish where? And when you "Browse" to the start page, please clarify.
Browse with Windows explorer? Internet Explorer?
Whats your publish directory ...

Daniel,
When you get a chance, create a new skin, attach it to the target, then test the preview.

Sharon's problem came about because there was a style that had " " for the label.

Im wondering if you might have something similar causing the issue.

Have a great weekend

Daniel,
Any time you get an "Object reference error", Please open a bug ticket.
Id like you to get me this topic with its associated files if possible.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

We are looking for some feedback from our customers on Mobile devices etc.

1. What device(s) would access the help?
2. What browsers (if not the pre-installed browsers) should we support?
3. And how would the help be distributed, to a web server or onto the device itself?
4. Recommend a site you ...

There are a few things happening here that cause this to happen.
There is a border style applied to the <table> tag.
In WebHelp - Flare has to use tables to keep the formatting of your auto numbering styles correct because there are no tab stops in the HTML world. Thats the reason the auto-number ...

Soon you will be able to directly Import those DITA files into Flare and generate your webhelp target effectively taking out the middleman.

http://www.madcapsoftware.com/solutions/dita/

Capture V3, Vista..

The alignment feature will be the best option for you.
Align previously translated material then once the alignment process is completed, simply upload the segments to the Translation Memory (TM) database.
You don’t have to insert all translations from the suggestions for each segment within ...

Sneek Peek.. Could be possible..

Try placing the cursor at the front of the text, hitting enter, then back space.
This inserts a <p> style on the text and the padding should now work.
For some reason, the cell styles (padding) are not applied usless there is some kind paragraph style in the cell.
When you first instert a table ...