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Hi Mark,

It looks like it never chokes on the same file.

1. What is the source for your images?
2. If you're capturing them, are you saving them from the capture app before adding them in Flare or adding and naming during a drag and drop?
3. If capturing, is the capture app closed when you see ...

Perhaps placing the table inside a Div would give you more width control.

Hi Mark, as you speak with more flare users, you'll find that having more than one install of Flare is fairly common. It's handy in case you hit a snag on something and need to step back a version as well as to test that what you're seeing is really what Flare can give you with your provided CSS

Hi Mark,

Take a look at the error dialog. The file that it's looking for is soar-settings-4.png.

Could it be that you had edited that file, close it, and left the editing program open? I've noticed that after editing a file with GIMP and closing it or sometimes from XnViewMP that I need to close ...

I just ran through 20 or so Word imports and never saw that. What I did find, though, were quite a few instances where the a word author used the manual styling and numbered list button to make a text line look like a heading1. Some others used headings in a couple spots, then did the whole fricking ...

I'm replying to an old post, but yes. A user with Author can edit any file they have access to.

There's grist for the feature request mill, as well.

It'd be pretty handy to be able to pin table styles. I don't imagine every topic uses all 27 styles.

You won't see any code inserted. There's no apparent difference in the variable text.

When you press SHIFT+SPACE in a variable definition, Flare enters a visual space no different from any other. When generating the output, Flare replaces those SHIFT+SPACEs with  .

Watch this gif: https://i ...

Make a copy of the docx file and add the .zip extension. You can then open it in 7z or WinZip and see all the content.

The path in the clip is standard. All the files you add to Word are in that directory. Unfortunately, word drops the original filename. I find unzipping is the fastest, easiest way ...

Hi Dave,

I believe the culprit is Word is automatically resampling the images. It's a feature.

If you compare your originals and the images you pull out of the unzipped docx, I'll bet you a nickel that Word compressed the daylights out of them.

Hi,

Use SHIFT+SPACE to insert a non-breaking space into a variable.

https://i.imgur.com/xqwvX8a.png

None of the standard codes will work (https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlar ... ing-space/)

Hi Matze,

I can only shake my head in agreement and then tell you to zip the whole project. I've been tech writing since the early '90s and in my experience, the only regrets you'll ever suffer from over archived work is when a file is missing and you can't recreate that output with a click of ...

Hi,

Try this:

Create a generic class that only adds your favourite change bar style. Then select the changed text and apply the class to that span.

In html it should work on any element. But that probably won't transfer to pdf. I've only gotten divs to abide by positioning properties. No colors ...

Hi,

Try this:

Create a generic class that only adds your favourite change bar style. Then select the changed text and apply the class to that span.

In html it should work on any element. But that probably won't transfer to pdf. I've only gotten divs to abide by positioning properties. No colors ...

Basic passwords get stored in the Destination file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CatapultDestination
Version="1"
Comment="This is my publish destination"
Host="ftp.myftpserver.com"
User="MyAccountId"
Password=""
Directory="public_html"
Port="22"
ViewUrl="http://www ...

Tell us why archiving incomplete projects is part of your workflow?

A project zipped up without the full contents would not be usable and you couldn't build it again to see the content.

IMHO, your best path is to use Zip Project from the Save group on the ribbon. You can open a Zipped Project ...

Hi,

That &#160 is the unicode non-breaking space that you'd get from Symbols > Insert Character.

Give us a little more info on what you're trying to accomplish and what you're looking at.

Keep in mind that you can open those variable set files in a text editor to make sweeping changes. Once you ...

Isn't it? I learned early on to never directly paste from an M$ source doc into working doc without first putting the text through NPP to get rid of any stray garbage that word wanted to add.

That is a safe and proper assumption as you're dealing with output from an M$ product.

After importing, it's always nice to run the output through https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-validator-xsd.html

Just paste the file into the top text area (Option 1: Copy-paste your XML document here), and ...

PDF readers are supposed to follow Adobe's policy for security, and should obey restrictions on open/modify at the very least. But there's no guarantee.

PDF properties in Reader activate from CTRL+D. The readers I've seen all implement some sort of Properties view, but not necessarily the same key ...

If you open the doc in Adobe's reader and press CTRL+D, does the security tab display the settings you think you should have?




https://i.imgur.com/YG8COLq.png

Can you skip the auto-generate part and manually add the two sub-entries? Anything automatic is suspect when troubleshooting.

Glad to help. The forum is not as active as it once was, so if you can use the MadCap's Flare Slack channel you'll see way more activity. If you aren't on Slack already, send me your email address in a PM and I'll invite you.

Hi,

Access control is usually handled by the web server where you've hosted the content. You'd publish to, or arrange to have your content moved to, a specific directory (your site's choosing) and then implement a system (with IT and probably(?) customer support) to add client login details to the ...

Hi there,

This is a "known" issue with Flare's tables. There's no simple way to take a table down to bare tags and apply the exact style/class. You'll often find that overrides creep into the table tags anytime you touch Table Properties and you'll inherit a raft of them on a word import.

Between ...