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Nick, open the image's File Properties (Ctrl+Shift+P). Switch to the Edge Effects tab. There you can select the "Torn" edge effect and play around with it (though I don't think you're likely to achieve a torn edge as nice as SnagIt's). I think you can also apply a shadow effect to the edge, but do ...

It does now, but I think when I first did this Flare was on version 4 and it didn't have that option, hence the need to get the plug-in.
??? I don't understand what you say.
We transferred all our projects using Flare 3. Now we use V6.1 (see screenshot) - are you trying to tell me, that Flare V4 ...

There might be a very simple solution to the problem:
(I know because that's how we did it)
You use RH to produce a WebHelp . There should be a .hhp file in the output folder - that one you can import into Flare: html_help_project.png

It does now, but I think when I first did this Flare was on ...

Surprisingly it was X5 (I found out when I had a chance to go into the program). Our initial efforts to do a CHM build were not effective as we couldn't find any temporary html files or .hhp files. Finally, we ended up calling support and after having us download some plugin and consulting with ...

is this for print or web output? for print, you can just have the glossary terms be in-line or in a footnote (or something similar to that) and it will only display the glossary terms that are used. for web output, i'm not sure if it's possible to "condition" certain terms to display.

are you ...

I have created a global glossary file that has all the glossary terms used throughout our doc set. For the largest of our documents, it can be used as is because pretty much everything in the glossary, appears in that project. However, I have lots of smaller projects that only use a small fraction ...

Okay, dumb question here, but how did you achieve the drop shadow on your torn edges? Did you use the Madcap Capture program or was it something else?

That looks like a screenshot doctored in SnagIt. Capture might have that capability, too, but I haven't played with it much.

Capture has that ...

EDIT: Split from http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=10574&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15 -Andrew


The duplicate styles pane in Analyzer lists the duplicated styles found in the stylesheet(s):
Analyzer1.jpg
There is also a 'report' in the unused items called unused styles:
Analyzer2 ...

Whenever I needed to have reviewers know what was changed, I'd use Adobe's Acrobat Pro to highlight text in the generated PDF. That way I didn't have to do anything to my Flare source files.

I think the problem is likely that the conversion from Flare to Word is....lacking. I know there are issues I have with converting from Word to Flare (like setting a table row as a heading and not having that retained when converted to xml). Word uses its own method of floating text around images ...

If that doesn't work, the only other thing I can think of to try would be to reorder of the ConditionTag attributes. Most of the ConditionTags use the following attribute order:

BackgroundColor=""
Name=""
Comment=""

The first two have:

Comment=""
Name=""
BackgroundColor=""

Technically speaking ...

My guess would be something got corrupted in the .flcts file. Have you tried opening that file in a text editor? I would look for an end tag out of place or a non-standard character. The .flcts file should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CatapultConditionTagSet ...

1. i have 300 legacy manuals in individual framemaker files. i'm importing them as "chapters" into my flare project. from what i've seen so far, the content could overlap some. in fact, there is so much superfluous content in the FM files that i'm taking out a lot to make the Flare chapters.

yes ...

If I tried to add a bookmark to the actual footnote (the spanned tags/text), it caused the table cells to display oddly.
In the authoring environment or in the generated output?

I didn't test it in the generated output but that was largely because my system is somewhat antiquated and bogs down ...

What I ended up doing was making a footnote out of the first occurrence on a page and then just adding the same superscripted number next to the other "references". The xref tag is expecting to cross reference a bookmark or a heading level. The actual footnote is really like a span tag with a style ...

You can also insert a .cur cursor image. Just go to Insert > Add Cursor Image and navigate to where your .cur files are (that's typically in C:\Windows\Cursors).

I realize this is more than a year-and-a-half since you posted this but I thought I'd reply with a "workaround" of sorts that we use to fix this problem.

We include example SSL certificates in our documentation (with invalid content, of course) and originally, the text strings were so long that ...

Thanks! It's been a while since I had to work with the index entries so it never dawned on me to try that.

I ran into a problem recently trying to set up a condition for a topic heading. I needed to be able to "blank out" some text in a heading level for a particular target audience. So I created my condition and applied it to some of the <h2> heading level. In the resulting PDF file, the TOC, the topic ...

There are special characters to get the curly quotes. Those are “ and ” for left and right, respectively. I haven't used those codes before, so I'm not sure how well they're supported by all fonts (or all browsers or in print output).

Just as an FYI, while you are correct that the standard left ...

Now I need to figure our how to call these landscape pages in the middle of a Chapter. Any ideas?

For that topic and the one that follows it in the TOC Editor, you have to set them to start as a new section, I believe. Or maybe that was only if you wanted the chapter number to stay the same ...

You could change the field definition from a varchar to a BLOB. BLOBs eat everything.

Unfortunately that only makes it worse. The code Madcap is using in its Analyzer is set up to query using equal instead of like. When you change to a BLOB (or in this case a CLOB since it appears they're using ...

The only possible problem with that workaround is you'll have to do it with every Analyzer database file in every project, and you'll have to remember to repeat the fix if you ever delete the Analyzer folder, since the file is automatically created the next time you open the project but it won't ...

Did support state if this is a database problem? You may see if you can use SQL Management Studio to locate the table and increase the field size. No idea if that alone will fix the issue.

They didn't say, though, I have been wondering the same thing, myself. I thought it might be an easy thing ...

Yes, I'm replying to my own post. I just got off the phone with tech support (on another issue) and asked about this particular bug. It hasn't been resolved yet and is marked as under consideration for the next release.