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Dear mapcaps,
Advice please... I have a, primarily, web document for which dropdowns are perfect. When i pdf this i want tne headings to conform to my usual h1, h2, h3 format. Does this mean i have to duplicate these as dropdownheading classes, which will make a maintenance nightmare, or is there a ...

Dear madcaps,

Where are the default icons stored? I have a sizing problem with the dropdown icons, i was advised to play with the max width and hieght attributes but since i am using the default icon, and it always worked before this doesn't sound right to me. I want
to check the image itself but ...

I have found that i can, usually, insert a dropdown including one table but not two, and mine don't have images

Liz

The form would completed & sent to a help desk. If it's excel it's as an attachment. If it is a pdf then i can tdo a mailto on the form. I am researching if a pdf can do the type of validation that I need, i rather suspect it won't. I just thought someone out there may ahve needed to do this before ...

Dear madcaps,

Can you recommend somewhere to design forms that will be published on line as part of my Flare webhelp. The current forms are made in Excel and work perfectly OK but we wanted to investigate of there is a better option for publishing on line. I have Adobe CS10 so can use that but ...

Dear madcaps,

In this particular output we just want pages, no menu, accordian etc so I want the left side pane to be zero width or omitted. I can't work out how to get this I have no accordian or menu itemd but I have a blank side pane In the skin I have made the pane size 0 and I have "Hide ...

Was being dumb about output. I have now added conditions to folders I don't want output and exclude them in the target properties. Much better!

UPDATE: BUT my conditions won't stick. I set conditions on my folders and it seesm to loose them, why?

Dear madcaps,

I am setting conditions at folder level. Mostly it works however for some folders, and it seems to be consistently the same files and with setting any condition, I get an alarming error and stack dump like this:
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Any ideas why and how can I get rid of it ...

Thank you I'll have a go! liz

Dear Madcaps,

Some rather dumb questions because I have forgotten. My Output folder is defined in my target as c:\HUB, so Flare creates the output in this structure:
c:\HUB_Output\Output\TheNameOfTheTarget\all the files

This is a temporary place and the output will be moved to another location ...

Thank you everyone, very clear..................liz

This is still happening, I can't find a way to fix it, any suggestions?

Thank you.......................... liz

Dear Madcaps,

I want to have some text which is, in effect notes or instructions for authors. Thsi test shuold not for part of any output. I know that I can achieve tis with conditions but I wondered if I could have a <p> class of "hidden". I can't see how I could make it invisible so I suspect ...

Dear madcaps,

Is there a way using styles that a paragraph can be made to stay with the next one. I thought there might be a tag that could be applied - like for next style?

Otherwise I have to apply a div to almost everything with "aviod break" set.

Thank you................ liz

aha, I hadn't thought of doing this. Of course, easy when you know how! (I'm v7)

Thank you...................... liz

Dear madcaps,

I want to be able to do this. The boxes only represent the paragraph position t is not what i want in terms of formatting :
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So that my list numbering continues even though I have a heading (unnumbered) within the list. How could I do this?

Thank you ...

Dear Lisa,

I am specifying a layout for every item to be sure that I get what I want and the page type. What I don't understand is that I never get an "intentionally left blank".
For example: I have two chapters the first one ends on a left page the following one specifies this:
15-05-2012 14-30 ...

Dear Lisa,

Thank you for your reply, very useful as usual and got me on the right track. Just so you know Word support mirror headers and footers quite well, but not blank pages, they have to be hard-wired.

Anyway, since originally writing, I now have page layouts that I use for PDF output ...

Dear madcaps,

I am creating my protrait page layouts and they will be mirrors when printed.It would be lovely if I could take my left layout and say "please create a mirror for me Flare" so that the margins and frame positions were "duplicated" but as a mirror. The alternative would be that I could ...

Dear madcaps,

I have a coloured background for online output and this should have no background when the output is print. I have tried using "transparent" and it comes out as black. So for now I have set it to white but i would much rather use "transparent" or "none". Is this possible?

liz

Andy,

Did you try the last fix that I posted?

liz

Dear madcaps,

I have a problem using preview with my dropdowns, when I generate webhelp or preview I get a very large, fuzzy, pixellated right-hand, blue arrow. I have tracked it down to the MadCap|Dropdown style, but as far as I can see this seems to be alright, it uses the WebHelp/DropDownOpen ...

Dear madcaps,

Another thing I can't quite work out, I'm sure it's simple but I just haven't got it right yet.

For my printed out one of my templates for topics is to force a topic to start on an even page. I have set the mc-page-type to "even" and I applied this to the html tag. However it doesn't ...

Dear madcaps,

I have played about with this but can't quite get what I want. I want number to the left of my headings - effectively in the margin but right aligned within that so it butts up to the paragraph it relates to. So it would look like this:
02-05-2012 17-13-20.gif

And I wanted to goven ...

Dear Madcaps,

I have this situation:
Topic1a
TitleA to show on screen & on print it is numbered N.nn where N is it's parent and nn is it number within that level. It is also included in the printed TOC
Topic1b
TitleA to show on screen but not on print, but value to be used in print header ...