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Hello,

I have encountered a few issues with MMF output/distribution:

1) When I click on the output file (.mcmoviesys) on my machine, the movie appears to launch the MadCap Movie Viewer AND Mimic. The viewer window disappears almost immediately, then the movie project opens in Mimic. Any idea why ...

Ramon,

I guess that makes my question moot, then. Thanks for the info.

Hello,

I'm working on a Mimic movie that contains a frame with text box. I would like to give the user the option to enter the text in this box manually, or allow the movie to do it for them. I recorded the movie/frame in Automatic mode with the "Typing object" option selected. Currently, I can ...

Thanks Ramon.

I tried creating a background image at the size I need, then inserting the new background into the Mimic project. However, it is not positioned (anchored) properly in the output window, and there doesn't seem to be any way to reposition it.

It would be great if Mimic supported Frame ...

Hello,

I have a Mimic project that contains two movies. The first movie, containing my introduction, is 668x553. The second movie, a recording of an application window, is the size of the window (352x441). I would like both movies to be one size (668x553). I tried re-sizing the second movie to make ...

Thanks for the feedback. Both ideas are worth pursuing.

Hello,

We assign document reference numbers to all of our engineering and product documents for inventory. Our current method does not enforce consistency, and I have been asked to research alternative methods. Can anyone suggest an effective method/system for this?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the link - looks like I'm stuck with them for now.

Hello,

An entry in our printed (PDF) Table of Contents is too long for a single line. Flare adds leader dots at the end of the first line, and again at the end of the second, before the page number. Is there a way to hide/remove the leader dots from the first line (indicated in the example below ...

Thanks for the information, Lisa.

We do not work in landscape orientation often, but the current process for switching orientation seems a bit cumbersome. It is certainly worthy of an enhancement request.

Hello,

I am encountering an issue that seems to be related to this. We need to include a wide table in an Appendix, so I created a new page layout set to Landscape for this purpose. The new page layout has been assigned to the topic via the Outline TOC and the topic appears in the landscape ...

Update:

I played around with this some more and discovered that you can use style commands to effectively control which part of the XRef actually looks like a link.

For example, if I set the font color of the XRef text to match the color of text in the output (black, in our case), I can use the ...

I figured that would be the answer - just thought I'd make sure. Thanks for the replies.

Hello,

I have two questions regarding XRefs, and both are related.

1). Is it possible to create an XRef style that generates a standard link in Online output, without changing the highlight (linked) text, yet generates a page reference link in Print output?

For example:
(Online): This is managed ...

I looked closely at our style sheet but didn't see any differences that would affect the Mini-TOC. I'll play around some more and will probably contact MadCap support with this. Thanks for your continued help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Increasing the TOC Depth didn't change the result in PDF output (the Mini-TOC entries still do not appear). When I output the project to WebHelp, however, the Mini-TOCs do appear. I'm lost as to why they would appear in one format but not another (no condition tags are ...

I checked the stylesheet for any settings that might prohibit the Mini-TOC styles from appearing but didn't find anything. I did, however, notice that headings in child topics (under each book, and under each topic that contains a Mini-TOC proxy) have a mc-heading-level of 2:

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Thanks Lisa. As far as I understand it, I've set this up correctly. Yet Mini-TOC entries are not being displayed in the PDF output.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg183/thismajorsea/Flare_MiniTOC_3.jpg

The image above shows the (partial) structure of our outline TOC. The entries Overview and ...

I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but how would you configure the top heading in a topic so that it appears as a Level-1 entry in the main TOC, but doesn't appear in the Mini-TOC proxy placed in that topic?

Thanks.

That did the trick. Thanks Lisa!

Hi,

Our Flare topic bookmarks are appearing in the Bookmarks pane in PDF output (see capture below). Is there any way to hide them?



Thanks.

Thanks so much, Lisa. I will give this a shot.

Hello,

I've regrettably kicked off the new year trying to devise a series of auto-number styles. As you will see, I am having no luck. I feel I'm close, but I can't seem to figure out which formats will provide the results I am looking for.

I am trying to setup auto-numbers for four levels of ...

Thanks for the helpful explanation/information. I will try your suggestion(s).

Hello,

I've encountered a strange (and altogether frustrating) issue that has left me unable to save and retain a manually added space between two variables. In this example, we've used one variable for Company Name and a second variable for Product Name. When the two variables were inserted in a ...