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I've recently changed one of my style sheets and included some 'clear' and 'float' properties on paragraph tags. I'm not sure if it's related, but my drop-down text no longer works with the new style sheet. I've compared the old and the new style sheets and I cannot find anything different that ...

Thank you Lisa, I double-checked as you suggested and it works fine.

K

Tech support have narrowed the problem down to conditions applied to <tr> elements.

Karen

Hello,

I am replacing my procedure tables with ordered lists. When I set a condition tag on the <li> and exclude that condition from the target, the list number still appears in the output. Is there any way to hide the number when the condition is excluded?

(I cannot use auto-numbers instead ...

Hi Lisa

It fails during the build, on different topics, never consistent. And the builds fail randomly - they work for a while, and then suddenly fail. I've narrowed the problem down to some specific condition tags, but I have no idea why these, in particular, should suddenly cause the build to ...

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I've noticed that some of my output targets suddenly stop working and return an 'index out of range' error. I've narrowed the problem down to the condition tags, but I'm not sure why they work for a while and then stop working. This applies to both PDF and WebHelp targets.

Tech Support are ...

Well, I solved my own problem. I had the 'table' style set to clear: both; float: left. I set those back to default and my TOC generated just fine.

Hope that's helpful to someone else!

Karen

Hi

Has anyone seen this before? My TOC proxy generates a TOC that runs off the edge of the first page of the TOC rather than creating multiple pages. I suspect I have done something to my style sheet, but I'm not sure what to check.

Thanks!

Karen

I have figured out that the problem is due to the way the divs are handled in the external style sheet I was given to use.

Thanks!

Karen

Hello Dave

Yes, the auto-numbering is set in both default and non-print media. I am guessing that the problem has to do with the margin settings, as my project uses an external style sheet with a frame margin of -12 px.

I've attached screen captures to show what's happening.

The auto-numbering ...

Hi!

Has anyone encountered this problem? When I use auto-number in a paragraph, either for actual numbering or p.Note type paragraphs, the output looks fine for print but the auto-number value does not appear in the WebHelp output, even though I can see it in the XML editor when I use Web Layout ...

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I've been very careful with spacing while entering text, but Flare seems to be adding <![CDATA[ ]]> tags after span tags. This is causing extra spaces to appear between words in printed output.

This happens when a space character is outside of the span tag.

Has anyone run into this before? Is ...

That's an interesting question. In my case, I had dragged in the topic with the variable, and then manually modified the variable. So, a combination of both.

Thanks

K

Well, I removed the variables from the TOC, and now my WebHelp previous and next buttons work as expected. The project was never in Frame at all.

K

Right, you cannot have any variables at all defined for a TOC entry. Of course, variables within the topics themselves are fine.

Hope that helps

K

According to tech support, the bug is that you cannot have a variable within a TOC entry. That solved the problem!

K

...until I click a TOC link, and then the buttons start to work again, until I click another link within a topic.

K

Hi

Here is the scenario (never mind the browse sequence, I've removed it).

1. I added the Next and Previous buttons to the WebHelp toolbar.
2. I generate the WebHelp output.
3. I click through the WebHelp using the Next and Previous buttons, which work fine.
4. Within a topic page, I click a ...

Hi

My goal is to have the Previous and Next buttons page through the WebHelp in the order of topics specified in the TOC. I created a browse sequence that links to my TOC. The buttons seem to work fine until I click a link within a topic, or on a TOC link.

Is this a bug or expected behaviour ...

Thanks Bob!

I am using Flare 5. I didn't realise that the default settings for the Print button would print only the topic frame.

Thanks again!

K

Hi

I've added a 'Print topic' button to the skin, and the javascript as follows:

<input type="button" value="Print" onclick="parent['content'].focus(); parent['content'].print();"/>

Everything works fine in Firefox and Safari, but in IE7, the images do not print, only the borders around the ...

Yep, I defined both a tooltip and a label.

Thanks!

K

I created a new style for a toolbar item called 'Pdf', and I want the button to open a PDF file. I tried the suggestion for the javascript posted here (thank you!), but when I build the project, I get the error message 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object'.

The error occurs when I ...

This looks like my best solution for controlling table and column widths in Word output.

I have two-column tables that are set to 116px for the first column, and the second column should take up the rest of the page width. The table is single-sourced for WebHelp, PDF and Word output all three ...

Help! Does anyone know how to set the width of the first table column but leave the second column set to auto width in a way that works with Word output?

If I set Auto Fit to Window in the table properties and then set the first column width manually, it works in PDF but not in Word, which seems to ...