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GregStenhouse

My favorite way of doing this is (you could add this into your master page):
<body scroll="no">
Non scrolling region text
<div style="height:100%;width:100%;overflow:auto;">
Body text
</div>
</body>
You'll need to tweak this for your project (play around with margins and styles), but this should ...

GregStenhouse

It's possible, but not with the Flare UI.
Open the topic in a text editor.
Give the movie a name, e.g. <img src="movie.swf" name="movie1" >
Under the image, use event handlers to add controls to the movie, e.g.
<a href="#" onClick="movie1.Play()">Play movie</a>
<a href="#" onClick="movie1.Stop ...

GregStenhouse

Suggest sending a bug report through to MadCap. Until it is fixed, you could use a PassThrough marker with the text
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Cheers
Greg

GregStenhouse

I would recommend giving Flare's image conversion via distiller the big sidestep. It is not good at generating quality images, and offers no flexibility in defining the image type or compression etc.

Try going with an online-friendly format to start with (e.g. gif, jpg or png), import by reference ...

GregStenhouse

After re-reading your initial post, I may have led you down the garden path a bit. A TOC proxy might be useful if you want only a listing of the topic headings, but if you want to single source with headings and a description (e.g. the first paragraph in the topic) then you'll need to make use of ...

GregStenhouse

You could use a TOC proxy. Create a seperate topic, called "Listing" or similar. Suggest making it conditional so you don't see it in your output. In the topic, click Insert>Proxy>Insert TOC Proxy...

That will create a list of all headings with the "mc-heading-level" style class set.

GregStenhouse

You don't need to escape those characters. Remove the backslash and everything should be fine in Frame, and in Flare.

Attached is a topic from the Frame 8 help which states the characters that must be escaped with a backslash.

GregStenhouse

The correct code to use is:
<a href="ms-its:filename.chm::/topic.htm">LinkText</a>

You could try using that in the Cross Ref dialog: select "Topic in Project" and enter ms-its:filename.chm::/topic.htm (as above). You may get errors etc when building, but it should work. If it doesn't you could ...

GregStenhouse

I'm suprised Flare is mapping anything from FrameMaker to "li. ..." Typically Flare only gives you the option of mapping FrameMaker lists to paragraph styles (p. ) not list styles (li. ) The recommended way from there is to use autonumbers to recreate your bullets. In the import file>stylesheet tab ...

GregStenhouse

It would be very handy for Madcap to publish detailed release notes with updates and new versions. It seems that every release fixes broken stuff that we have had a workaround for and then the workaround doesnt work. Often we only find out by accident.
I agree, we rely heavily on import from ...

GregStenhouse

After some experimentation, I have been able to generate drop-down text from FrameMaker, while retaining a nice print output from Frame. Here's how:

Using FrameMaker :
[<MadCap:dropDown>][<MadCap:dropDownHead>]Text for the drop down hotspot[</MadCap:dropDownHead>][<MadCap:dropDownBody>][<!--]Â ...

GregStenhouse

I am importing from Frame to Flare, and then outputting to HTML Help and Word.
As previous posts have mentioned, it is not possible to map a Frame bulleted list to a <li> tag, I am forced to use a p. style with autonumber, and the bullet pasted in.

In HTML help the bullets look fine. My problem is ...

GregStenhouse

The only problem is that it's a huge undertaking to convert all (200+) these images. This is most annoying.

That's why I suggested SaveAs from PPT, and use PassThrough markers in Frame. Due to the default naming convention (Slide1, Slide2 etc) it should be easier to copy and edit a PassThrough ...

GregStenhouse

I hear ya, it's frustrating that you can manually distill from Frame, and save the PDF as JPG and the end result is far superior to what Flare does automatically. I think your only option is to to head away from your PPT referenced objects.

If re-importing all your PPT slides into Frame as JPGs isn ...

GregStenhouse

Check the source code of the output. Is Flare adding a Width= and Height= to the img tag?

GregStenhouse

We have the same problem. It appears you have little (no?) control over how Flare generates graphics when needed. The callouts in our graphics look particularly small & blurry.

You mention PowerPoint, but what format are the actual graphics as referenced in FrameMaker?

The only workaround, if ...

GregStenhouse

As mentioned, you could reduce the compression of the JPGs, which will make them smaller, but will make the quality worse. You could also go with GIFs - they are limited to 256 colors (which suits most applications with the exception of gradients on title bars), and would also reduce the file size ...

GregStenhouse

Not quite that big, but a recently completed project was fairly complex:
38 frame files, 24 graphics, approx 200 pages (shared across two product variants via separate books & conditions)
Engish, French and Spanish (Chinese wasn't supported at the time, but apparently is now with 4.1)
Output to ...

GregStenhouse

I'm not too sure what you are trying to do with the slaves, I guess that option is useful mainly for the master TOC. It sounds like your process may be the best way...

Cheers
Greg

GregStenhouse

2. the TOC adds an additional layer to the entire TOC (FILENAME)-> Actual TOC so you are adding a new lever of booklets, a lot of people dont want this.

How are you merging? If selecting a Flare project or an external help file for your node in the master TOC, then in Flare v4 there is a new ...

GregStenhouse

I've submitted a bug report for that one, I suggest you do the same and it may get looked at. It appears Flare is generating the TOC not based on the actual TOC, but on the para tags in the TOC. A possible workaround is having separate para tags e.g. Heading1Online and Heading1Print, and separate ...

GregStenhouse

Sorry Sharon, I don't think that's possible although a very good feature request. Send it to
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

Until Flare is updated, I suggest creating your end-of-table footnotes with styles. For the number reference create a character class (vertical-align=super ...

GregStenhouse

Save the Frame book (i.e. make sure there is a change in the time stamp), and build the output (e.g. Build Primary). Flare should automatically re-import before building.

GregStenhouse

Do you mean the HTML files that were imported? Delete them from Windows Explorer?
Yep, one or two files might give an error if deleted (e.g. the default file), so you may want to delete old files )i.e. sort by date and weed out anything older than your latest re-import date).

Where should I see ...

GregStenhouse

A few thoughts:
Clean the project (build>clean project)
Delete all files (except the default topic) from the Content>...import folder (when you shift Frame files around or re-map often stale files get left behind)
Are you using Flare 4? Frame import from v4 seems more robust (e.g. you only need ...

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