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Thank you so much Dave! We are building HTML Help, I decompiled the CHM, which showed a SkinSupport folder. Each of the .js files whows 4.0.0.0 at the top, so that is a good idea of what version was used to build the file.

Thanks again
Greg

Is there any way to find out what exact version and build of Flare was used for a specific project? I'm having problems with the latest version (funny French characters from Frame) and I'd like to revert to a previous version that I know was successful. I have the content and project folders ...

You would have more control over the image if it was inserted separately, and not part of the note/tip/warning styles.
You could create a class under "img" in your stylesheet. Call it something like "note". Relevant properties might be:
img.note
{
position: relative;
bottom: 20px;
right: 30px ...

You'll need to add a bookmark to the figure caption (Insert>Bookmark)
When you insert the crossreference elsewhere in the topic, select that bookmark
Beside "XRef Class" click the "New..." button.
Give the new xref class a name "FigureCaption" or similar
Under Available Commands, select Paranum (or ...

You may want to use <b> or <i> etc so you can more easily apply certain formatting to a bunch of classes at once. For example, if you have 3 types of bold (black, blue and red for example), later you might want to increase the font size of all of them by modifying the parent <b>

<span> is usually ...

If anyone has anything helpful I'd be greatful. thank you......................... liz
Do you have Firefox? There is a neat add-on called Web Developer tools (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/) Once installed, open webhelp (or individual HTML files) in Firefox and click Tools>Web ...

Hi Liz

The styles list (one way of accessing styles is Ctrl+Shift+H) displays different styles depending on context (i.e. what you have selected or where the cursor is in the XML editor). If nothing is selected, it will only display paragraph styles. Span styles should appear when you highlight one ...

If using conditions, I would recommend (in order of priority):
1) use generic language, no conditions
2) condition at the topic level
3) conditon at the paragraph level
4) (if absolutely necessary) conditon at the sentence level

Avoid conditions within sentences (i.e. fragments). That always causes ...

Try decompiling the CHM (using HTML Help workshop or FAR help). Then use a small utility called DiskFrontier to graphically represent the folder that you have decompiled to. That should give you an idea where the size is coming from.

However... I'm curious to know if (in a pinch) finding a vendor that can use Frame (I know they are out there), if somehow you couldn't work something out that way? any comments from anyone on this idea?

The is how our process works - Frame --> Flare for English and all translations. It works ...

I downgraded toi v4.1 and everything is working again (i.e. when I build the target with linked files, the old ones are removed as expected before being replaced with newly generated ones).

What is odd is that the release notes didn't mention much in the way of changes to Frame importing, so I ...

I have been battling a problem with v4.2 all morning, and wondering if others are finding the same. A number of my projects (which include links to Frame files) were quite happily working with 4.1, but after the upgade I am finding the following:
1) a reference to styles1.css has appeared in the ...

If you link to a book, the timestamp on the book must change to force a regenerate. One way to do this is: (in FM) drag a document in the book up and then down one place, and click FIle>Save. Then build the target.

One way around this is to include all framemaker documents rather than the book in ...

1. Open Project Organizer>Skins.
2. Click the HTML Help Setup tab.
3. Click the Index Options button.
4. Clear Binary, and select Include booksmarks with index entries.

Read the text in the dialog for more info.

From my (limited) testing, movies (e.g. swf) don't work if going from Flare to PDF. If you go direct to PDF, you end up with a gray box. If you have a FrameMaker or Word target (with option to create PDF selected), the movie is dropped altogether. It may be worth directing your question to tech ...

Thanks so much for that Dave, very very handy

I would recommend decompiling the CHM, and have the look at the actual files that are being compiled. You can use HTML Help Workshop (File>Decompile) for this, and FARHelp also has tools that use can use to examine CHMs.

In the files that are decompiled, search (windows seach would do) for files ...

I agree that tidying up the code is the best way, but an alternative may be to use !important in your CSS (be careful though, as this means you will not be able to use certain local formatting for tags that use that class - although it sounds like that is what you want)

Open your stylesheet in a ...

Thanks for that Dave. I'll raise an issue. In the meantime we can work around it using !Important references in the CSS to ignore inline styles.

Cheers
Greg

Looking at the code, there are an awful lot of "class=" references in those paragraphs, of particular concern are two different classes for italics. More than likely some kind of override sneaking in there, even though all looks well. If you save Frame to mif, and are able to compare a paragraph ...

Every table from FrameMaker, even though Preserve Table Styles is turned off and the table is exactly as defined in the FrameMaker table designer, imports with a bunch of extra inline styles. For example,
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Default" height="357px" style="border-spacing-x ...

I don't think setting Autoscroll to Hidden for headings would work, but by all means give it a go.

There are many different ways of achieving this (seach for "non scrolling region" in Google) using frames, CSS, floating windows etc. But I think you'll find what I described is the simplest and less ...

I tried it here (we are on the same versions) and same result. Copyright and TM symbols appear correctly, ® comes through as Æ
Time to raise a bug

Cheers
Greg

It sounds like I need start by making a master page and styling my headings in a DIV with a no scroll value. I will let you know of my progress .
The method I suggested is kind of doing the opposite, setting the Body tag so that nothing scrolls to start with, then wrapping the scrolling (i.e. body ...

Hi Paul
I don't want to make a movie at all. All I want to do is string a series of discrete screen shots together, with callouts and boxes added on, and the ability to navigate. The user clicks a Next / Previous button to move between screens. That's all there is to it.
Sounds like you want a ...