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I'm fairly certain that you can't use a variable in a simple glossary term that relies on the Text option -- it seems that you can only enter text in the UI. But to work around that, you could create a topic for each definition and use the Topic option in the glossary term properties window (double ...

Disclaimer: I'm no expert on Drupal.

Our Web Team wrote their own importer in PHP, which seems to be what many Drupal developers wind up doing. According Drupal, there's a modules for importing HTML, but that's about all I know on the topic.

Thanks,

Kristen

Another option is to use the Alt key + the Number Pad to enter symbols. For example, Alt-0174 inserts the ® symbol. Here's a random reference to Windows Alt Key Codes.

Thanks,

Kristen

It's probably wishful thinking, but I'm beginning to suspect that a number of these Flare+Source-control-hanging issues may all be traced back to the same root. I don't have the 'bad performance' issue, but I'm realizing that once Flare goes sideways, I immediately kill it rather than trying to ...

It's hard to say whether your problem is related to the source control+Flare hanging issue I'm experiencing, but you can look in your Windows Event Viewer and see if there are any interesting errors around the time that Flare hung.

In my case, MadCap has suggested that I recreate/repair my Windows ...

Alas, no. We use a few different tools for image clean up, but not Capture. GNU Image Manipulation and Paint are probably the most used.

Thanks,

Kristen

Nita, you're a rock star. Thanks so much for this tip. This may account for some of the strange behavior we're seeing, for sure. The Flare help doesn't the mention the threshold at which an image is considered low DPI, but if this is part of the problem, I'd imagine the threshold is someplace around ...

At the risk of sounding crazy, I'm going to suggest that Flare 11 handles image resolution inconsistently. Our results have been inconsistent, but we've noticed that sometimes, some of our PNG images are the wrong size. In some cases, they are much bigger while in others they are much smaller (I'm ...

Hi,

There's a similar thread where Dave Lee suggests generating the Word target and using Word's 'compare' function to mark the differences. The Flare help says this isn't supported directly in Flare.

Thanks,

Kristen

Thanks for chiming in, Nita. Seems like something to avoid for the moment, then.

-K

It can happen when you switch between the text view and an 'editor' view (e.g. XML editor, stylesheet editor).

For example:
1. You make changes and save the file in text view.
2. You switch to the XML editor.
3. After switching to XML editor view, the tab title changes to display a * (asterisk ...

I'm pretty sure I requested this awhile back, but it's always good for others to also log enhancements with MadCap. They've got an enhancement submission page.

Thanks,

Kristen

Hi bm2i,

This error is a 'generic' .Net issue that usually indicates that something is 'squirrely' in one of your project files. A Google search of the Madcap website returns plenty of topics from this forum.

We ran into this error pretty frequently in v10, and had to get help from MadCap Tech ...

HI Tom,

You can try fiddling with the Anchored Frames with Images options on the last window of the Import FrameMaker Documents wizard. They're explained here:
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare11/Content/Importing/More_About_FrameMaker/Anchored_Frames_with_Images_FM.htm

I don't think you can ...

You can configure whether Flare displays certain warnings in the build log; it's under File > Options > Build :

build-warnings-UI.png
If you clear the check box next to a warning, that warning won't appear in your log when you build the target, even if Flare encounters the problem. The log lists ...

We've got a StepNumber cross-reference type, but you aren't going to like how we got there.....

The install process of our app is very convoluted. In the install docs, we rely heavily on things like "skip step 3 if you use version X of app server Y." This isn't possible with ordered lists in HTML ...

Another fine theory shot down by data..... the problem has reared its ugly head once again. I'll let you know if I ever get resolution on this issue.

Thanks,

Kristen

How are you opening the target's output (which I'm assuming is HTML5)? If you're going into the Content folder in Windows Explorer and opening individual files, you'll get the behavior you describe in #2. Open the file listed in your target's Output File field (on the General tab). By default, it's ...

I know I claimed this before, but I think this time I really have solved my particular 100/1001/1026 crashes, with lots of help from MadCap Technical Support (thanks, Marvin!).

The short story is that I can no longer reproduce the error after having another user log into my machine with their ...

This came up yesterday in a different thread . Flare doesn't directly support this, since it needs to be implemented in the system that's hosting your online content. We don't use Pulse, so I'm not sure whether it supports your case. Some sort of authentication mechanism will need to be in place ...

I've been having a pretty consistent Flare crash for the last few weeks, but today I think I finally resolved it. I'm posting this in hopes that it saves someone else time and frustration

Ever since I upgraded my Flare instance to 11.1, Flare was crashing regularly when I tried to load a project ...

Hi again,

I got some high-level information from our web team:
We use a custom HTML parser to import contents from the archives we receive (ZIP files of the project output).
The custom parser will first go look for a sort of index or table of content in the archive.
It then uses these to go ...

I wish I had something helpful to share with you. My best information is that they're using a 'parser' to pull apart our tri-pane HTML5 output so that it's in a format that Drupal can handle. It's rather brittle at the moment, so we're investigating simplification, including using the 'no skin ...

Assuming the blank pages you mean are the ones that appear at the end of a chapter in a PDF, then you want to edit your ToC book entries. On the Printed Output tab of the ToC entry's properties, in the Chapter/Page Layout Break section, select Enabled from the the Auto-end on 'left' page field. And ...

kwag_myers wrote:I don't know what happened to the last few posts on this thread

The forums suffered some kind of melt-down yesterday evening. Looks like they lost everything going back to Tuesday evening.

Thanks,

Kristen