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Thanks Andrew.

I'll put in an enhancement request. Regarding the ability to copy/paste a selected area the functionality "nearly" exists using the "Capture region" command, if only it would not hide Capture before showing the selection cross hairs, so maybe it would not be much work for MadCap to ...

Hi,

It's been a long time since I've used Capture and I'm having a hard time finding some basic editing tools. I am looking for the following:
i. A way to erase a selected area leaving it as a preconfigured background color
ii. A way to copy a selected area and paste it to another part of the image ...

Hi,

We have Flare and are considering getting Lingo so we can benefit from the project packaging and statistics side of it (rather than translating using it). The agency we currently deal with (for Word-based Marketing material) uses Trados. Our localization group tells me that in order to import ...

Try changing your Flash Global Security settings to "Always Allow". You have to do it via this web site:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... ger04.html

Adrian

One caution with Flash outputs: If your end users do not have internet access then they will not be able to see movie sections run one after the other continously (ie. without user input). To get this to work you need to configure Flash's global security setting to "always allow" and (somewhat ...

As this post is a year old you have likely figured it out now, but if not....just in case you resized in Capture 4 using "Print Size" rather than "Print DPI" there is a bug that results in a low quality graphic. May not be your situation but thought I would mention it just in case. I posted some ...

Hi,

FYI... I have just reported a similar issue as Heidi was having to MadCap. It ALWAYS happens whenever starting out with a blank canvas (File > New) and then adding a screenshot. Any objects added get flattened into the image when the file is reopened. Clearly a bug.

Adrian

Note that if you change the name of the graphic file in Explorer the name of the props file automatically changes to match. It even does this when Capture is not running. (I thought it might be due to a MadCap service in the background but don't see anything obvious in my services list, so I am not ...

NOTE: You can reuse the same class of style in one topic as many times as you like, but you can't use the same ID multiple times in one topic. You can reuse the IDs in multiple topics, but you can only use an ID once in each topic. So if you have two tables in a topic that you want to print as 6 ...

This problem can happen if you have a style used above the mini-TOC proxy in the same topic where it is inserted and that style has a heading level that would be shown in the mini TOC.

For example, suppose the following:
i. Your mini-TOC is set to show a TOC depth of 1
ii. Your H1 style is set with ...

Hi,

I updated the section on graphic resolution in Capture to Capture v4. When I get my hands on v5 I will update it again although I imagine most/all of what I say applies to that too.

Adrian

Hi Lisa,

Sorry for the delay but I have just got back from vacation.

Thanks for the tip...works great!

Adrian

Hi,

I want to set a number of tables to Autofit to contents for webhelp but to Autofit to window for print. However, in the Table Properties window it seems that the setting you make is applied to all outputs. I considered overcoming this in the CSS by setting the table tag for the print media to ...

I've wanted to view my CSS in a text reader with the styles in alphabetical order, but I can't think of a way to get them in alphabetical order (except by manually moving things around or other ways that are even more time-consuming). Am I missing anything? Is there an easy way to do this?

There ...

Hi,

You've likely found a more elegant solution by now, but I do have a partial fix if not:

i. Use a specific style for such occurrences
ii. For this style set the mc-heading-level to a high number that you are unlikely to need in the TOC i.e. 9.
iii. Set the corresponding TOC style (e.g. p.TOC9 ...

Hi,

I came across this mail when testing issues with print table styles. For completeness, I just wanted to add a comment regarding the table stylesheet link in the html <head> section...

What I am seeing is that the link to the table stylesheet in the <head> section does not seem to perform any ...

Thanks for your feedback Lisa. Option 2 it is.

Adrian

Thanks Lisa. I realize there are defaults but just didn't expect this one to be bold. I will be more cautious next time

Hi,

I am currently creating a numbered template in Flare to match one that we have in Word. In our Word template we use h6-->h9 for the appendix styles. The styles match the H1 to H4 styles except for the numbering e.g. H6 is the same as H1 except for the word Appendix and the use of letters rather ...

For the record...when I came to set the autonumbering back to what it was I found that it is ignored for TOC styles anyway. I actually put in a bug report for this ages ago but had forgotten about it. I imagine this issue affects a fair number of people who have converted projects from FrameMaker ...

Thanks Lisa.

The p.TOC1 and p.TOC5 styles are the same for the purposes of testing only. Ordinarily, they would be different (the p.TOC5 would have "Appendix:" in the autonumber field).

I tried setting the p.TOC5 to red and it gets reflected in the TOC so that appears to be working okay.

It seems ...

Thanks Lisa,

The option was cleared, as I expected, because we use styles to generate the TOC. When I enable the setting I no longer see these particular headings in the TOC, which is also expected because the corresponding TOC entries are named somewhat differently. I could clearly change tack and ...

Hi,

I am looking at my CSS in Notepad. I see my H1.ChapterTitle style is set exactly the same as my H1.AppendixTitle style except for the mc-heading-level setting which is 1 and 5 respectively. I also see the p.TOC1 and p.TOC5 styles have exactly the same settings. (I have checked I am comparing ...

Yes, I have the same issue and checked the same things. My figure captions are appearing on the page following the figure in many cases.

Thanks Lisa. I noticed that the other cross-reference properties in the skin were for context sensitive cross-references but I didn't realize that these ones were too. Now I see what is going on.

Cheers!

Adrian