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The application is a braille translation program which is used world-wide by private individuals, the education sector, through to corporations of all sizes, including major government departments. And yes, I agree that the major corporate sector are avoiding Vista as if was and dose of ebola ...

I'll give it a go but......
"System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows NT; Windows XP"
No Vista!!!!!!!

There are two criteria for this to work in XP
1) The .chm must use HTML font sizing.
2) Focus MUST be on a topic Window. (F6 will usually move focus from TOC to Topic window)
If needs be, I can upload a small .chm which I know works.

O.K. It's been a bad day, and I've just found the real problem. :oops:

My Flare project WILL enlarge and reduce font size with Alt + M/wheel - in Windows XP - but NOT in Vista. :cry:

Dunb question - but what's so different about Vista and .chm files?

So unless anyone has any ideas, I guess it's ...

Trust me - I know it has worked in the past.

If you use Ctrl +m/wheel when viewing this message, does it work?

Because many of our users are partially sighted, we need the functionality of varying screen font size by holding down the Ctrl key, and scrolling the mouse wheel. Having imported an RH-X5 project, I having difficulty figuring out how to set the font attributes to allow this. I thought it was simply ...

Many thanks. Problem resolved by removing the offending lines. It would be nice if Flare's RH importer got rid of them for you - one less thing for the new user to get worried about.

Having imported an RH-X5 project, I've manged to sort out all errors with the exception of a number, like the one below, which which refer to a missing BSSCDHTM.js file in one or more folders.

Missing linked source file: C:\Users\George.TECHNO-VISION\Documents\My Projects\DBT Helpfiles\Content ...

Well, here's Madcap's response:

"This is a known issue with the CHM output. Due to the fact that CHM output does not support in-page anchors, a workaround needs to be developed to solve this shortcoming.

"I've submitted a feature request to the developers and have tied that request to your name ...

They defiantly don't!

I'm doing what you say, but just get to the beginning of the topic. So do my guys in the States.

Before I finally go nuts and balistic, can someone confirm the following please?

I import a Project from RoboHelp-X5 in which is a Topic with a 200+ row table which contains Bookmarks against each row.

In Flare, I create Hyperlinks from a separate Topic to the Topic containing the above table.

No ...

A nice check list - thank you!

You wouldn't consider writing "Flare - Printed Documentation for the complete Dork" would you? Put me down for the first copy please?

Or does anyone know if something similar has been published yet? I'm continually being tripped up by the stupidest things - even ...

What I've ended up doing is just that, and then copying and pasting between Flare files/Topics.

Unfortunately, out here in the real world, authors will throw us their revised text of a complete Topic in Word files, which as often as not don't even have "Revisions" turned on, and expect us to just ...

That had been a consideration, but I'm afraid there were more than the odd few. I'd have gone as blind as my users as there were literally hundreds.

Thanks for that. I've posted a bug/suggestion report as suggested.

I guess the only work round is to copy all the paragraphs to a Word file, save the files as an HTML file, then import to Flare and let Flare convert it to it's own format. Finally copy and paste between Flare files.

Talk about ...

I need to copy and paste multiple paragraphs from Word 2003 into Flare 3.1. However, I'm loosing the paragraph breaks.

I'm obviously doing something stupid - but what?

Richard, Have you seen the \"Distributing Printed Documentation\" thread - more or less same question as here, but.......

How in blazes do you embed the graphics in Word 2007, such that you can Save As a Word 2003 file??? Where is the perrishing EDIT menu in :evil: 07?

I've GOT to develop in Vista ...