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Ken, thank you so much for the regular expression: Name" />[^ <),&.\r\\]
For some reason, there are hundreds of instances in our Flare project where there are missing spaces before and after a variable.
I downloaded the free version of Agent Ransack and followed these steps and it worked! We have a ...

I'm using Flare 7. I finally got the page layouts for my PDFs to work except this one particular PDF, which will not generate correctly.
I'm using a PDF target and assigning the Normal page layout via the TOC. For some reason and only for this particular PDF, after the Legal Notices and TOC pages ...

Margaret,

Thanks for your help.

When you say "Now that you have selected page layouts with the target, you need to go back to your TOC properties.
On the Printed Output tab, you need to set the chapter and break options from the top for Page Layouts, and not from the bottom for master pages ...

I have followed the steps below and still cannot get my Word doc output to build correctly (primarily missing footer with copyright and page number and missing section breaks). These are the steps I created for myself and I've highlighted the main issues. Could someone please look at these steps and ...

SteveS wrote:Looking at the styles and naming convention I've got to ask if this is a word import.

It's not a Word import. I inherited this project so I don't know exactly why there are so many styles.

SteveS wrote:Have you tried styling the anchor (<a>) tag?

The a tags are all 8 pt already (see attached screenshot).
It looks like I'll have to manually set the font size in the topics.
Thanks.

<li>Customize your <a href="../../Homepage_Preferences.htm">user preferences</a> ...
Your first post said your <p> style is 8pt but you're using an <li> tag here, not a <p> tag. The <li> tag does not inherit from the <p> tag -- it inherits from the <ul> or <ol> tag, which in turn inherit from the ...

This is how the topic link looks in the text editor in Flare:

<li>Customize your <a href="../../Homepage_Preferences.htm">user preferences</a> to

I selected the text "user preferences" and linked to the topic "Homepage_preferences". The link text font size is larger than the rest of the text ...

The p style in our stylesheet is 8 pt font size. However, when he insert a hyperlink in a topic to another topic, the hyperlink changes to 10 pt, and we don't want the font size to change. In our stylesheet, every Link Style is font-size is 8 pt. Why is Flare changing the font size? Is there any way ...

Including variables in a TOC in Flare works great for WebHelp, but I can't get it to work for a Word target. I have books in my TOC with different names from the topic titles. (See attached screenshot -- this is how it looks for the two different TOCs I'm using (one for Word and one for WebHelp ...

I just reported this to Support. I'll post the response here.

OK this is really annoying. I need to copy topics in the Content Explorer to different folers, but I still get this copy error. I'm trying to find how to clear the Windows 7 clipboard, that's the issue. Has anyone tried that?

Same copy problem here. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, Flare 7.2.0. However, when I preview a topic in the target output, I can copy the text. But I need to copy text with formatting, variables, etc. Has this issue been fixed?

Dave Lee,

You are a genius! (That's what I call our developers when they make me HAPPY!!!). It worked! You have to build the WebHelp to see it though, as it doesn't show up in the skin preview for WebHelp. I intend to use this as an alternative to the About box, since you can't apparently add text ...

How do I link to a topic in my project from our corporate logo in the WebHelp toolbar? I see an OnClick for Javascript in the Properties for the Logo (Styles > Toolbar Item > Logo). Is there javascript I can enter in OnClick to go to a topic in my project? I want to use this instead of the About Box ...

I created a DITA Book in XMetal, which saves as a .ditamap file. When I imported it and the DITA XML files to Flare 7, Flare created two TOCs (in the Project Organizer folder): a Default TOC (named from the first topic in the imported list, and a TOC created from the DITA Book (ditamap). The TOC ...

I was having the same problem with the TOC not importing correctly from the ditamap in my XMetal source files. Then I read Sarah O'Keefe's blog post Flare 5 DITA feature review (Part 1: Overview and map files) http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2009/06/flare-5-dita-feature-review-part-1.html ...

We would also like to do use tabs horizontally over the main frame for our DITA XML WebHelp like this:

Concept Task Reference

We'd still like to keep the accordion tabls for the TOC, Index, Glossary, Favorites, etc.

Is this possible?

Lisa,

Thank you for this! It was really helpful. I've been searching for this for hours.

When you create a snippet file (Project > Add Snippet), there is an option to specify a stylesheet at that time. If you select "(default)" instead of the named stylesheet (e.g., "Styles"), then it creates the ...

You're right. I see that now. I am still having issues but I think it's because I had initially used local formatting. I wish there was a way to globally change that back to the default. I'll post how I fixed this in case anyone else makes the mistakes I did when setting up my project with local ...

Now I have the same problem in the localized Flare 7 projects. Is there a way to reset all of the styles back to "default"? I've searched here and the Web and can't find anything.

Thanks.

Yes, you can set the stylesheet at the target level. I just want to set it per topic.

I have two stylesheets: one for mobile webhelp and one for printed docs (Word or PDF).
The option for the Stylesheet drop-down is grayed out (disabled). I've tried both applying and removing the Master Stylesheet from the Project Properties, which doesn't work. I've tried both selecting an ...

Lisa,

I figured out the problem. Somehow I had some inline formatting (called local formatting in the help docs). I set all of these to the default in each topic. I made sure the settings were correct in your suggestion and built the Word target. It looks fine now. Thanks.

The style sheet I created in Flare 7.2 does not persist when I build the printed output target (Microsoft Word). I set "p" (which would be a normal style in Word) at 10 pt font size. However, each time I build the target, the Word doc's "p" style is 12 pt. Any advice would be greatly appreciated ...