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You can have local fonts referenced in @font-face, and have those in a fonts sub-directory of Content | Resources | Stylesheets. Flare will install those local fonts and reference CSS correctly etc, and as far as I'm aware there should be no going out to the internet to fetch anything. Here is our ...

Have you tried working through the tutorial? http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/FlareV12/FlareGettingStartedTutorial.pdf That takes you though a pre-installed template called San Diego, and should be a good primer as to how Flare works.

It sounds to me like you'll need to work backwards (learn about ...

Hi,

In your target, try clearing the 'Generate resized copies of scaled images' check box. Here's some info from the help:

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Note: When you use Flare's resizing features to scale images, you can specify whether you want Flare to pre-compile the resized images. You can do this for the online ...

Do you mean the topic title is blank (in which case the first heading is used) and that heading has conditions?

If that's the case, then the conditions won't be reflected in the TOC when you first add the topic to the TOC. You can override that (by highlighting and pressing F2) with whatever label ...

If you take a look in the Output>Temporary folder, you should be able to find a folder with the name of your PDF target, with htm files in it. Take a look at the source of one of those htm files (one that has the glossary footnotes), and look at what class the footnotes are using. That should give ...

Yes (separate topic with glossaryproxy, separate TOC containing that single topic, PDF target referencing that TOC). I can't think of any other way of doing it

Good result! Pleased that you found the problem. We use Calibri and that comes through OK (I find that font gives the best result at smaller sizes in callouts).

Flare uses distiller to create JPGs out of anchored frames with images and callouts. Maybe there is something wrong with your Acrobat installation - issues I've had in the past were resolved by uninstalling Acrobat (or the PDF tool that comes with FrameMaker), and reinstalling. Also, I've had issues ...

The background image idea sounds great, wish I'd thought of that! Our approach (custom logo control) seems to work OK, although causes a few problems with spacing etc:
1. First, remove the madcap default Logo (set the Logo ToolbarItem 'icon' to None)
2. Add a custom logo (right click ToolbarItem ...

Breadcrumbs require a masterpage (more specifically a breadcrumbs proxy). If your word import master page does not contain a breadcrumbs proxy, you can define your own master page and use that in the project instead. You could modify or rename the import master page, but you risk it being ...

Hi George, have you tried creating a separate topic with a Glossary Proxy in it?

There is no built in functionality for handling multiple terms like this that I know of.

Your options are to include both definitions in the same entry for AAA (separated with text such as "or AAA can also mean...", or try and work around it manually as follows:
1. Make it so AAA does not ...

It does not include IE 10, which is currently included only in the dysfunctional Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I am not sure if IE10 will ever be available for W7 and what Microsoft's plans are for extended HTML5/CSS3 support for IE9. Given Microsoft's track record the best approach is to recommend ...

I've had a read through the Flare 8 what's new information, and also the knowledge base but can't find any info on this. Is there any word from Madcap on what browsers (and browser versions) support HTML5 webhelp?

Looking at http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare8/Default.htm in various browsers ...

How are you checking the links?

"madcap" tags (e.g. <MadCap:xref class="XRef_Plain") are propriety XHTML tags that are only used within Flare. They will not do anything if you view the content HTML topics in a browser. You are best to either check links from within Madcap (e.g. Ctrl+click on links ...

From "Style Book: A guide For New Zealand Writers and Editors" (Wallace and Hughes, 1995), p. 17
The use of a comma after such abbreviations as e.g. and i.e. is rapidly disappearing in published writing. However, it is helpful to punctuate before, and where applicable after, the material introduced ...

Do you have "Use Topmost Window Style" checked in the HTML Help Setup tab of the skin properties?

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... _Notes.htm

Quite an impressive list, almost the same length as the upgrade from v6 to v7. My fav is:

Flare 7.1 Release Notes wrote:Output: CHM Option to have the compiled help file(chm) remember its size for the end user.

Thanks Madcap!

FIRST Question: How do I get Flare to stop automatically naming its topic files with the first 24 characters of the header text and use my TopicAlias values instead?
You need to have "FIlename" markers with the appropriate text to bypass Flare's naming (Flare will instead use whatever is in the ...

I raised an issue about this a couple of years ago. I managed to track down what I submitted (this was Flare 4.0):
I have tried, unsuccessfully, to import Chinese from FrameMaker 8. All I get is funny characters in Flare (attached an example). I've tried using the original SimSun and SimHei fonts ...

It was a long time ago when I used it, but I think what I did was to create a topic that links to all the other topics (in Flare I guess you could use a TOC Proxy?), then point xenu to that topic and set it to look 2 levels deep. That way it would check first the links in that topic (which should be ...

I've used DITA from Flare in a test project. Like you I had a few issues with the output (in my case, generating errors from the open toolkit). And like you I had to write scripts to get around those issues.

One of them was support for note types. Also problems from memory with conditional tagging ...

On the Amazon site, if you choose to share an item via email it reveals a permalink (e.g. http://amzn.com/0316069485). Try this instead

Cheers
Greg

xenu? http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

1. There is a learning curve, but if you have one expert who sets it all up, others in the team can follow a set number of steps and import or produce output fairly easily. And the support materials, free webinars, and paid training via madskills are very very good.
2. I haven't used ePublisher, but ...