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Thanks Lisa. Well, I will give this a shot and report the results.

Hi,

As is customary, we have a master Flare project (with master page layouts, master pages, style sheets, etc.) on which all of our documentation projects are based. However, due to time constraints, several edits were made to a style sheet outside of the master, and I am now tasked with updating ...

Resolution from MadCap Support:

Adding the characters CA to the beginning of the {chapnum}.{n+} format resulted in incremental values in the TOC, as desired.

Update:

I tried simplifying the process, using only one auto-number format (chapnum) only two style levels deep, to achieve the desired result of:

1 (section title)
1.1 (major heading under section title)
1.2 (major heading under section title)
1.3 (major heading under section title)

The section ...

Thanks for the suggested workaround, Lisa. I will try that. I submitted an enhancement request for this (Case 12759).

That did the trick. Thanks again.

Thanks - I will give that a try.

Hello,

I'm trying to create a cross-reference style that references a range of pages (ex: Please see pages 41-45). I have not been able to figure this out. Has anyone attempted this, or know how this would be done?

Thanks.

Hello,

I'm noticing strange results in a printed TOC: the font sizes of the entries in the TOC are not consistent (see example below). I don't believe I have ever seen this before, and I'm not sure what has caused it. What, if anything, determines the font size of TOC entries?

http://i248 ...

Thanks. I will try removing the section and/or chapter auto-number formats, and try a single format type (GH: for example) across the document.

Lisa,

Thanks - I actually was using that post as a reference. The problem is, when I use the GH: format, it starts everything with 0. For example:

0
0.1
0.1.1

I can't seem to figure out how to get the '0' to accurately reflect the heading (in this case, chapter) number. Any ideas?

A related issue:

I'm trying to add incremental auto-numbering, three levels deep, to headings in a chapter. I have created new styles with auto-numbering assigned to them. No matter what I try, I cannot get them to increment correctly.

Here is what I want:

1 (Heading 1)
1.1 (Heading 2 under ...

Flare's Printed Output guide is somewhat deceiving, then:

In Flare, you can specify section breaks for print-based output (Adobe PDF, Microsoft XPS, XHTML,
Microsoft Word, and Adobe FrameMaker).

Hello,

I am publishing a PDF document with three sections. I would like the section number to appear in an introductory page before each section, so I created a page layout for the section intro topics that includes a Header frame with a variable for the section number ( Insert>Variable>System ...

Thanks Lisa.

Hello,

In our current stylesheet, styles in the default medium use the Arial font and those in the print medium use Verdana. Our corporate office, however, has recently decided to reverse these - they want Arial used in printed output and Verdana in electronic output. Before I begin the laborious ...

Just as an FYI to everyone -

The setting to which Lisa was referring is called Generate resized copies of scaled images , available from the Properties>Advanced tab for an output target. According to the quick help:

New copies of images will be generated wherever you have resized (scaled) them ...

Wow - I had missed that completely. Thanks for pointing it out, Lisa.

Hello,

When I manually re-size an image in a topic (using the drag handle at the lower-right of the image) and save the change, Flare seems to create a copy of that image, with the new dimensions appended to the filename (see example below). The new file appears in the output folder (DotNet in this ...

Yes, the medium is set to Print. This occurs for all images in the document. I haven't checked the DPI - that may be the culprit.

Thanks for the reply.

Hello,

When we output to print, we always use the PDF format. All of our resources for print output (Page Layouts, etc.) are specific to that format. We recently tried to output a document to Word (someone requested a specification in that format), and found that all of the images in the output ...

What defines the hierarchy/depth of entries in the Bookmarks pane in PDF output from Flare? Is this also defined by the mc-heading-level style property?

Thanks.

Thanks for the replies. The DPI info is especially helpful, as it probably explains why my 400x300/300DPI image is about 1/3 the size in the output. I wasn't sure what was causing that.

Is there any way to add watermark text, such as "Draft", to all pages (or at least the cover) in printed output? I can't seem to find a way to do this.

Thanks in advance,

Thanks for the info, Paul. Much appreciated.