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Unless it's a setting in the PDF reader. I did a quick check in Acrobat and didn't see anything relevant.

Are you opening the first PDF through the browser or by double-checking on the file in a shared folder? If you're doing it through the browser and you have the browser set to open links in ...

LTinker68 wrote:You could try setting the properties of the hyperlink in Flare to open the link in a new window, but I don't know if PDF outputs honor that attribute. You could always try it with that one link.

That's how I had set them up so apparently, the answer is no.

I have two PDF files that have hyperlinks between them. The problem I'm experiencing is that when you click on the link, it doesn't launch a new Acrobat window, it replaces the existing document with the linked one. Is there any way to change that?

You could add a hyperlink to the PDF (saved anywhere you want in your project) available in the footer/masterpage. the madcap help does this for accessing their pdf manuals.

http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare7/Default.htm

if you wanted to build your pdf and publish it to an external location ...

Well, I talked to Madcap technical support and it turns out this is a bug. It has been logged as #45913. The problem is due to an error Flare displays during the build process as opposed to any problem with the actual output, which seems fine. They are looking into the cause of it.

The problem seems to be something with the original .vsd file. If I create a new file, copy and paste the old information into the new file and save it, then I don't have the problems with saving the drawing as a .svg file. It may have been that there was a compatibility issue caused by creating the ...

I created an SVG file from a Visio drawing. The drawing uses shapes from a supplier's library of computer equipment. I can save the image out just fine with no error messages from Visio but when I go to add it into the topic or render the target (in PDF), I get a message from the SVG Processor ...

If you had a completely blank stylesheet, none of the heading levels would page break by default; so I'd guess there is a setting in there somewhere.

It might be an idea to open your stylesheet in text mode, and search for page-break or h5 to see what you find.

I did. There was none. I did ...

Did you make sure you were changing the correct stylesheet medium? (default vs. online vs. print)

It was in the print medium. I did find another work around. There are two heading levels, an h4 followed by an h5 then a table. So I put a set of <div></div> tags around the two heading levels and ...

The default setting for the h5 tag is to include a page-break before the heading level. The problem is that I don't want to automatically have a page break before every h5 heading. I tried changing the page-break-before setting in my stylesheet from default to auto . Unfortunately this did not have ...

Navoff:

To prevent the 8.5 x 11 page, simply select all the objects first, then perform the save. I have a visual basic macro that will actually fix the arrowhead problem. Contact me offline if you're interested and I'll send it to you.

Wayne

I tried that. Yesterday Visio gave me an error ...

Navoff:

To prevent the 8.5 x 11 page, simply select all the objects first, then perform the save. I have a visual basic macro that will actually fix the arrowhead problem. Contact me offline if you're interested and I'll send it to you.

Wayne

I tried that. Yesterday Visio gave me an error ...

So, I've read the information on how to get the arrow heads to display (adding the overflow="visible" option to the marker tags). That appears to work just fine (thanks, wbrisett, for the tip).

My problem is that when I create a drawing in Visio, it's placed on an 8.5" x 11" 'page' so when I save ...

You could insert a hyperlink in Excel that pointed to a WebHelp or HTML Help file, but you'd have to install that output on the user's computer, or have the hyperlink point to a WebHelp output hosted on your public web server.

That's fine. We'd have to provide them with the macros for Excel ...

So, here's my problem. One of our engineers is developing a tool that uses Excel to generate a data file which is imported into another application. They need to document the Excel interface and how to use it it generate the data file (they are creating some specialized macros and stuff to simplify ...

Well, I called the Flare support line and it turns out it's a bug. The number for this bug is 3004.

I have been trying to import some Word files into Flare but when I try to map the styles in Word to the ones in Flare, some of the styles that should be available in Flare aren't showing up.


In the Word Import Editor , under the Stylesheet tab, I select the stylesheet being used by the project ...

You don't specify it on the content...you just have to size the box so that the only thing that can fit in there is the heading. It is a less-than-optimal workaround. I am only using it for my Index and Glossary. If you have to use it for multiple topics and some topics have a 1-line heading and ...

Word doesn't accept two body frames in a page layout, so that option is out. Others suggested putting the heading directly in the page layout. It seems like I tried that and it didn't work, or at least the heading didn't appear in the generated output, but you could give it a try -- I may have done ...

I am converting a Word file to Flare. In Word, the text is put into a two column layout. I want to try to duplicate this in Flare for a print-only project. I figure I'll need a new PageLayout with two columns like what is used for a Glossary. However, I want the heading to flow across the entire ...

When it comes to tables, the biggest headache I have is trying to get a table to fill the width of a printed page and be able to adjust the column widths. I can't tell you how many times I've tried dragging a column divider in the XML editor for a table that starts off filling the width of the page ...

I tested putting one in the variable and it seems to work in the WYSIWYG view, but you'll have to test it in the output. To insert the non-breaking space in the variable definition, I held down the ALT key and typed 0160 using the number pad on the right side of the keyboard. I don't think it works ...

I haven't been able to find a solution to this but does anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking space inside the definition of a variable?

It sucks...Blech!

Don't sugar-coat it. Tell us what you really think. :D

Yeah, I know. I really need to work on my self expression. :wink:

BTW, I just heard back from the folks at Madcap. This issue has been submitted to the developers as an enhancement request (number 42491). I included the ...

Okay, I just tested the torn edge/drop shadow effect in Madcap Capture 5 (trial version). It sucks.

test.png

That is NOT what a drop shadow on a torn edge should look like. It doesn't treat the torn edge as an object to apply the shadow to. It's applying it to the un-edged image. I had started ...