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Maybe I'm missing something here. But I do something similar where I have two stylesheets one with colors in the text (for various reasons) and one where all text is black.

One is called something like this: ABC_Review
The other: ABC_Final

I set ABC_Review as the Default stylesheet until it comes ...

Symptom: I'm getting a ton of these errors, such that my project aborts because it runs out of memory

file:///C:/manuals/Documentation/CMS400/Source/ReleaseNotes/Output/epub/Output/Resources/TableStyles/Table.css
CSS: Missing linked stylesheet


I want to make sure we all understand. Your ...

They are great folks from my dealings with them.

For anybody doing DITA importing, I discovered a small flaw. The DITA <note> tag somehow got broke in the Flare 8 import. It comes through as node instead of note. As a temporary fix in my css, I have copied each of my div.note tags and renamed them div.node. This way when the importer gets fixed I ...

As the project gets larger, what is the biggest bottleneck people are aware of?


I'm a bit biased, but I think the biggest bottleneck is the memory. As long as the version of .net stays where it is, Flare is stuck being a 32-bit application and can only use 2 GB of RAM. That simply isn't enough ...

I concur with contacting the sales department. I changed my email address and apparently didn't update my email address. So, while I got m SN for work without any problems, I didn't get my personal copy without contacting Madcap.

Wayne

This past week I had lunch with a former co-worker who now manages a writing group at Apple. He was picking my brain about DITA, and other XML languages. He mentioned that they had looked at Flare, but since it wouldn't run on Mac OS X, they didn't look too hard.

It sounds like are going to 'roll ...

I've seen another strange one with the Flare 8 activation (even after the update).

I have Flare installed on my laptop and in one of my two VM environments on my home computer. So, that's the legal limit. If I deactivate the one on the one VM environment, then install Flare in my other VM ...

Named Destinations!

Folks, this is huge. This feature means that Flare can now create links from PDF to PDF without having to resort to manually opening and using Acrobat to do this. I'm not aware of any other tool that allows you to do this.

Wayne

Nita wanted to keep the other thread clean, so I'll start one for little (or big) things you find in Flare 8 that bug you.

The thread for good things is here: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14698


I'll move my comments from that thread here.

I was hoping for an update in ...

I like the look. Still not sure speed has improved or gotten worse (the jury is still out on that one).

Wayne

Garth:

You don't want margin-top 0pt; since that only sets the box margin. If you goal is to always float a paragraph to the top of a new page, then you want:

<p MadCap:mediastyle="@media print { page-break-before: always; }">

You can play around other options in the braces if you want to get ...

Regarding document length, I've had no problems producing PDFs of over 100 pages in Flare.


I regularly do 4,000 page PDFs out of Flare. OK... they don't start as 4,000 pages. They usually consist of 3 or 4 smaller (1000-1500 page) PDFs, which I manually splice together in Acrobat. But still 1 ...

If you ever need to do color separations from a PDF, then invest in Quite a Box of Tricks Acrobat Plug-in. We used it quite a bit recently for our color separations and it worked like a charm. You can get more information about the plug-in here: http://www.quite.com/box/

Wayne

Thanks. I did add a feature request this morning after I resolved how I was going to do it temporarily.

Wayne

Maybe I wasn't being clear enough. I understand how the condition tags work in Flare. However, we use a PDF for our review process, so we actually DO want things to show up in different colors so the reviewers can tell what information is for what product.

Do do this, I created the conditions we ...

I'm trying to setup a test project from FrameMaker that has conditional indicators. The manager wants to be able to maintain what he had in FrameMaker, which is the reviewers see things in the various colors indicating to them what part of the text goes to the various people (the conditions). In ...

The only solution I've come up with is to convert the font from OpenType to Truetype using a font tool.

I have some extremely large PDFs. In some cases these cannot be created as a single PDF from within Flare. In some cases I have to create multiple TOCS and build the PDFs one at a time. When all the PDFs are built, they are usually merged in Acrobat.

Page numbering isn't much of problem since Flare ...

Just as an FYI. We also see this problem in Webworks PDF output, so it's not exclusive to Flare. If you zoom at a high percentage, then the borders all look correct. It is annoying.

Wayne

Submaps are supported. However, I have found that depending on where the XML files are pointing to, in order to validate the files (where the DTD's are being referenced from). You may have to download the DITA 1.2 (or 1.1) DTD's from the OASIS website, and place those in your project folder. I have ...

Ironically, I just discovered this myself last week. Unfortunately I just read your message this morning.

Wayne

I use mini-TOCs in chapters. I have to build some "chapters" as separate projects due to memory and size. In order to link to the subsystem items, I have to manually add those after the build. It's not pretty, but once you figure out the path, it's not too bad. However, if you have a lot of items ...

Gina:

Most of that review is pretty dated and doesn't apply anymore. I've stuck with individual files, but I could see using some of the Flare specific options such as just using the headings for the TOC, which would mean just creating a DITA topic with sections. Technically you're not suppose to ...

I avoid Flare's stylesheet editor as much as possible because it always reverts my stylesheet to the default Style.css that comes when you first install Flare.


Huh? So, you edit the stylesheet elsewhere? I've never had this problem (and I go back-and-forth between Flare's editor and an ...