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I want to change the title above the table of contents to "The Title of My Help System",
and I know I can do that in the style stuff in the skin. (It is hard to find, but I know it is in there.)

However, I'd like to keep the accordian BUTTON, the one they'll click to get back to the table of ...

In the Advanced tab of my WebHelp Target, I have UNCHECKED the "Generate resized copies of scaled images".

Yet, it still does it.

Any other places in Flare that could be triggering that?

The image is being scaled to 850 pixels... probably because in my stylesheet I've got max-width set to 850px ...

Hi,
Is anyone still following this thread?

I'm having trouble with the final issue raised between Kevin and the other poster.

I've changed the appearance of my MiniTOC using the p.MiniTOC styles in the stylesheet.

That works, except that those items are clickable links. Once they are clicked, the ...

Hey Margaret,
It looks like your suggestion pops open the individual topic, but not the Web Help itself.

I need a link that will cause WebHelp to open, the correct topic to be displayed, and the TOC to Sync.

Guess CSH will provide that?

Here goes...
-d

Yes please!

It should be an easy target to code.

The standard, non-chunked HTML target of DocBook produces this.

Thank you for your awesome response, Margaret.

I am a bit intimidated by the CSH stuff. It seems to have so many levels, and I find Madcap's How-Tos pretty inscrutable. (I avoid their online help systems, if I can.)

But I plan to tackle it soon, anyway. Thank you for pointing me in the right ...

Newbie question, I think!

My support department wants to go into the WebHelp, find a topic that the person they are helping should read, and then send them that link in an e-mail.

Ideally, clicking the link would take them RIGHT to the topic, and have the TOC on the left sync so the user can see ...

No change.

But I did stumble upon something interesting.

I have been opening the resulting output in Firefox.

If instead I select "View Content" from within the Flare compile window instead, I DO see numbering, on whatever that funky viewer program that opens is. That sure munges some other stuff ...

Kevin suggested I post the code from my stylesheets, as maybe there is something about it that doesn't work well with a 1-page format.

Here's my custom <p.step>:

http://www.pcc.com/~douglas/parastyle.png


here's my <h1>:

http://www.pcc.com/~douglas/h1stylesheet.png

I should note that the ...

Hey Kevin,
Thanks for your comments.

Actually, no number appears at all, as if the XHTML Book completely ignores the mc style element. Like it just doesn't read it.

I use the auto-number for all my H1s and H2s, and my document ends up having plenty of those, so it isn't a "Chapter" situation that ...

Hi,
I was trying to create an HTML version of a project that would approximate the PDF version, but be readable right in the browser (even for folks who can't read PDFs in their browsers).

So I tried out the XHTML Book output type.

Seemed to work pretty well, except that it seemed to ignore some ...

Margaret-- thanks for the tip!

But it appears that the XHTML book format does NOT work with some of the MadCap custom stylesheet elements, like mc-auto-number-format, which I've unfortunately become dependent on.

Perhaps I'll just build WebHelp files, pull out the html of the topic frames, and ...

Hey Ramon,
Yeah, you're surely preaching to the choir about the use of .NET.
Such an incredible amount of awesome work and a powerful up and coming software company... chained to .NET! Oy!
;-)
But as long as it works, I'm just going to keep plugging away. Flare is better than anything else I've seen ...

Flare running well on my MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 4GB RAM (1067 Mz DDR3). I run Windows XP about 20% of the time, other times booted into OSX w/ Parallels... though if I want I can just edit Flare's files with VIM and just run OSX.

When something is slow, I'd sure say it isn't ...

I use Flare to create WebHelp and PDFs.

But sometimes I want to send a user or reviewer a single URL that contains the whole document (as defined by a TOC) as one, long HTML that I've dumped online somewhere.

This would be sort of like the PDF output, I suppose, but in HTML form.

Any tips or ...

The two things I have done:

1. Snippets.

2. Clicked on a topic in my Content Explorer, selected "Copy", selected "Paste" (sometimes in a new location), and changed the name.

-d

Dave Lee wrote:Also, you don't have to open the target to publish, you can right-click on the icon, but still that's not a awful lot quicker.

Sure!
It's one click and a three-centimeter drag quicker.

(Every little bit helps. *grin*)

I hit ctrl-shift-S reflexively every few minutes, anyway. I have now turned autosave to 60 minutes (the default is 10).

I will happily remove any little possible hiccup that isn't giving me a feature I need.

I'm running Windows through Parallels, so I do anticipate having to deal with the occasional crash... though it doesn't happen more than once every couple weeks.

I guess I don't yet have the inclination to try and track down the cause of the crashes... and least not yet. Troubleshooting operating ...

Windows crashed while I was running Flare. Upon booting up again, I discovered:

1. My Stylesheet completely vanished. The whole file. The Stylesheets folder was just EMPTY.

2. At least one of my open files turned to utter spaghetti. Here's what I see when I open it with a text editor:

http://www ...

If you are comfy with it, it may help to open the topic with a text editor and review all the tags. There might be some surprises in there.

Oh-- and though it is obvious: Make sure that the break-during avoid setting is set for the PRINT medium, and make sure that your PDF target is set to use that ...

Huh. That is mysterious.

I guess it could be caused by either a) another style element taking precedence, or b) the page layout has the body overlapping the footer slightly.

1. When I published, the "Remove Stale Files" box was checked by default, and Flare deleted a whole list of things. Woah! What files qualify as Stale Files? That was really weird and scary and I'm having trouble figuring out what it removed since the log doesn't show the full path. I'm uploading ...

Most user rally don't want to publish every single time, They just want to check the output to make it sure it looks good before they publish

Yeah, agreed. I guess it's a workflow philosophy.

Once I have created a Target and selected all its various settings,
I don't see the need to EVER open ...

Unfortunately, I do not see the "Flare 4.2.1 patch" in the Add or Remove Programs dialog.

I do see MadCap Flare V4.2 SP1, however.

Is it safe to remove that?
and will Flare then re-prompt me to download the new version? (I do not have the files anymore)

-Douglas