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Dave:

Thanks for that excellent summary. If only Flare's documentation was as concise and informative...

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

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Flare 11 and/or Flare 2017 (trial instance) if it makes a difference.

Has anyone discovered an efficient way to get Flare to add links to supplementary CSS stylesheets or JavaScript files to a topic file's XHTML?

I'm working with some third-party JavaScript libraries that use their own ...

Nita:

And it has long been my observation that the PDF engine does not interpret CSS the same as browsers do...
That was clearly stated in my original question.

So what I asked was whether anyone had found a way to control the behavior. Reformatting H/Fs isn't controlling it, merely ...

Nita:

Thanks but my question wasn't meant to be about how I can redesign my document's headers and footers to deal with (this particular illustration of ) unwanted text wrapping. The question is and remains, is there a way to control, which is to say block, the wrapping behavior in Print / PDF ...

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For Flare 11, although the problem evidently still exists in (a trial instance of) Flare 2017, PDF Target.

Has anybody figured out how to control, which is to say block, the wrapping of long text in Print / PDF Headers and Footers? My repeated attempts to control the wrapping seem to ...

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A bit of additional information for others who encounter problems with Flare 2017's Preview feature.

I filed a support request, Case 110021, that essentially said, "add my name to those who had problems with Flare 2017's Preview feature" and cited this Forum thread.

As part of that support ...

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Just tried out Flare 2017's new Clean XHTML Target -- seems to be the answer to our needs...

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley
SFO

There's a Refresh button on the TOC Editor's toolbar. I think that'll update the TOC entries.
It does indeed. Also, given that the Refresh icon is on the rightmost end of Flare's TOC Editor toolbar, and so may not be visible in TOC Editor panels that have been re-sized from their maximum width ...

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FOUND IT.

1. Select ALL the entries in the existing TOC, right-click, then choose Properties .

2. In Properties -> General -> Label , in the right side of the text entry area click Select Variable .

3. In the list of System variables, click LinkedHeader , then click OK .

Voila! Your ...

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For Flare 2017 (trial instance for now). I've read the Flare 2017 Online Help (OLH) and 2017's What's New PDF but haven't found anything about the following.

One of Flare 2017's new features is "Synchronizing TOC Entries with Variables". That is, IF one creates a TOC in Flare 2017, AND ...

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OK, updating Adobe Reader DC 2015 enabled Flare 2017's preview feature to work as one might expect. (Not elated that Flare's operation is so apparently dependent on the state of a third-party product, though...)

-> The question I now have is , has a particular type and version of Adobe ...

"Apparently in our case this was more of an issue with Adobe Reader than with Flare. My coworker's version of Adobe Reader recently was automatically updated, and now her topic preview as PDF works properly. (Except for the delay in opening)."

Did you see that bit?

Yes. In response I ran the ...

Nita Beck wrote:This has been reported and discussed here:

Thanks Nita -- glad it's not just me. I tried a quick search but nothing popped up that seemed pertinent.

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley

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For a trial instance of Flare 13 / 2017 alongside existing V11 licensed version, Windows 7 64-bit.

The new Flare 2017 Preview feature is behaving badly. I suspect there's something simple I can do to teach it some manners. My hope is someone can tell me what that something is.

1. With a ...

This topic is of course quite old. So it may not be all that useful for me to update it.

That said, it turned out that the "trick" was that IF one was running an instance of 32-bit Flare on a 64-bit computer, THEN one needed to install a 32-bit JRE.

In most cases, those running a 64-bit computer ...

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I've finally gotten Flare (11) to do as much as it can.

Part of the problem I was having is that evidently some difference exists between the CSS rules that will work in online versus PDF Targets.

For those who haven't found Flare's online help particularly lucid on this issue, here are ...

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I've figured out a couple of things. But I still can't apply formatting to PDF output.

First, to style links in an online Target, or at least HTML5 / TopNav Targets, one needs to add :link to the GenListOfTextListOf pseudo class ala:

a.GenListOfTextListOf:link
{
color: limegreen;
border ...

Riley, I'm sorry, but I'm kinda confused about what you're doing...
Nita:

The problem is whether / how one can format the individual items produced by the list-os proxy in PDF output .

As shown in the screenshot in the my original post, I can format the individual items in an online output, in ...

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For Flare 11 -- I'd be very interested to know if the behavior described below still exists in later versions of Flare (especially 2017).

IF in my default CSS medium, I specify formatting for individual items generated by a list-of proxy, THEN the formatting:

■ IS visible in a TopNav ...

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For Flare 11 although could update if necessary.

How might I dynamically resize artwork so that it never overflows beyond one page of my print/PDF output?

I have pages with anywhere from one to three lines of P text followed by an IMG (usually contained within a DIV). In online outputs it ...

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When you specify tbody , thead , and so on, are you doing that in your project CSS? If so, are you also using a table style defined in a Flare Table CSS file? (Content Explorer -> Resources -> TableStyles -> SomeTableName.css)

If yes, you may want to try the following:

In Flare's XML ...

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Ah yes, almost never fails: Post a question, find the answer on your own.

The "trick" seems to be to define the left and right margins as 50% rather than auto.

Now working in the print medium...

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

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For Flare 11, although I *suspect* this isn't a version-specific problem(?) If it is, then I may finally get 'round to upgrading...

Q: I can use CSS to horizontally center an image in a DIV in online outputs, but can't make the same CSS work in my print CSS medium.

As described ...

Dave Lee wrote:I noticed this before - it seems to store the the maximum ever number of indented blocks in that topic, i.e. how wide the left margin needs to be to show all the blocks.

Thanks Dave. That makes sense...

Cheers & have a SUPER weekend,
Riley
SFO

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I'm curious what information is being preserved by the MadCap:lastBlockDepth tag found at the top of a Flare topic's XHTML ala:

<html ... MadCap:lastBlockDepth="3" MadCap:lastHeight="312" MadCap:lastWidth="770" ...>

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</html>

As shown, the tag adjoins the tags MadCap:lastHeight and ...