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Yes, I found the following workaround:
1. Create a normal set of page layouts with a right (odd) page having the chapter title page layout, and your normal right/left body pages.
2. Copy this page layout set, and then create a mirror image of the chapter title page, but on a left (even) page, also ...

I'm generating to PDF, and then saving that as a Postscript file. I then run it through Distiller to exact settings for the book printer.

Yes, I am talking about having the chapter number (Chapter xx), followed immediately by body text, appearing on the left-hand page.

However, I also noted a number of books with chapters that start on the right page (say, a Chapter Title and intro), but its content begins on the back of that page ...

I don't really have a requirement for L or R chapter pages. It is a matter of cost savings, aesthetics, and common practice for fiction. Many novels have chapters that start on L pages. I also thumbed through a few reference books on my tech writing shelf--books from O'Reilly, Wiley, Hungry Minds ...

Hmmmm... now that is an interesting workaround that might actually work...
I'll give that a try and get back to you.

You set up a page layout that has the following page types: First, Left, Right, Empty (last one is optional). You set up the First page layout the way you want, including without headers and footers and with a smaller body frame. In your TOC, where you want the chapter to start, you specify that ...

Hmmmm... well, Kwag, that is a possible answer, but I'm not sure it is worth all of the additional effort.

In short, I was hoping Flare had a simple solution to address this problem. If not, then perhaps I need to submit an enhancement request. What I am trying to do here is not all that uncommon ...

Steve, thanks for your suggestion. But I do want a different looking first page for each chapter: It has a chapter title, starts about 1/3 of the way down the page, and has no headers or footers, where all of the other body pages will have these elements. While I am grateful for the idea, I don't ...

I'm using Flare as a single-source tool for my small publishing company for a novel I'm putting out. Currently, the book has 0.75" L and R margins, so the text blocks, headers, and footers are all perfectly centered. Th book looks fine, but is just a tad crowded at the inner margins near the binding ...

The book I'm working on has Volumes and Chapters.
I've structured it so each Volume has an h1 style.
The Volume pages are structured like this:
<h4>Book I</h4>
<h1>Title</h1>
On the page, these two are blocks are stacked and separated by borders, like so:

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In the TOC, I want the h1 ...

I resolved it by submitting a help ticket, which MadCap promptly resolved. I'll pass on my lessons for other users:

I wanted a blank page (no headers or footers) for my copyright/legal text. So on my "Default" page layouts, I created an Empty page with a body frame. I also used this empty page to ...

Andrew,
It only seems to be happening with one project.
At least, this is the first time I've seen it.
I happens every time I compile this project.

I received the following error message when building a print (PDF) document.
Any ideas on what might be causing it? The full text reads:

"Internal error: Index was out of range. Must be non-native and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index."

Not sure what this means. The ...

OK, wouldn't you know it, withing seconds of posting, the answer came to me.
For those who care:

1. Export from Flare as PDF.
2. In Acrobat, saved Flare's PDF output as a Postscript (.ps) file.
3. In Distiller, process the .ps file to the desired settings.

Not so hard. Now to get three hours of ...

I'd like to use Flare as a single-source tool for creating books that are to be printed by a print-on-demand (POD) service bureau. The service requires that PDFs have a PDF/X-1a:2001 preset that is generated from Distiller as the PDF Producer.

Does anyone know which standard Distiller setting ...

I'm running Flare v.5.01. My target is PDF.
I received the following error: "Internal error: Stack empty."
Since this error doesn't point me to a problem topic, and I can't even save the log file, this error message doesn't help me.

I tried rebooting, thinking it might be memory issues.
While ...

I have a rather large table that uses merged rows (please see attached screen shot).
This was a FrameMaker file that I imported into Flare 5.01. My output is PDF.
A similar table is working fine.

There is ample room on the previous page to accommodate the merged cells, but the table keeps breaking ...