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Ben:

Thanks for your reply. I'm familiar with the behavior that you describe from Flare 7.

But nothing of the sort is happening in my brand new installation of Flare 8. Moreover, my click-through of the Touring the Flare Workspace for version 8 seems to be explicitly saying that certain tools are ...

RESOLVED 2012-03-13: See http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14750

Evidently Flare 8 does not, ala Flare 7, permit users to control which side of the Flare 8 window tools such as Content Explorer or Project Organizer will be docked.

Instead, Flare 8 evidently forces tools to be ...

Flare 6 and 7 user, freshly upgraded to Flare 8.

Is it possible to dock menus such as the Content Explorer to the *right* side of the Flare 8 window / workspace? Please note that I'm truly, truly hoping to avoid sitting through a 30-minutes(!) serial-access video merely to learn how to dock windows ...

Kevin:

I've noticed one thing for sure in Flare 7.2.

I have a small three-pages sub-project that uses six bordlerless tables to place bulleted or numbered lists to the right side of a corresponding graphic. (I fell back to using a positioning table because although CSS could position the two ...

Thanks to all for your ideas.

I tried creating a separate page layout that did not include a page number variable, but when it was included in the PDF target the page numbers did increment.

Although there appears to be no straightforward way to not increment page numbers, at least I know I wasn't ...

For Flare 7.1, Windows 7 64-bit, PDF target.

I want to insert topics into a PDF target so that the inserted pages do NOT increment the document's page numbers.

More specifically, I'm inserting "Notes for Trainers" into a User Guide. Because the trainer will use the User Guide as the framework for ...

"TD":

Thanks. Actually no, the project was created from scratch.

I think I may understand some part of the problem. That is, that in an existing Flare from-scratch (as in nothing imported) project, I created a second TOC and target. The objective is to create a stand-alone Landscape variant of a ...

Laura:

I'm working with Page Layouts as in "LandScapeSS.flpgl". In fact, in Content Explorer, I have no Master Page files. (I went back and added an EDIT to my original mis-stated post.)

Okay, so in Topic Editor If one right-clicks outside the text flow, a shortcut menu includes the choice Edit ...

Laura:

Thanks. I have now tried that and it didn't work.

Evidently the topic editor doesn't know that I'm working on a Landscape page layout even though previews and targets come out correctly. IF I right-click on the page, then select Edit Page Layout Document , Flare displays a Portrait EDIT ...

Flare 7, Windows 7 64-bit.

Short Form: When editing a topic that's printed in Landscape mode, is it possible to also edit the topic in Landscape mode?

I've successfully created a Landscape page layout, in the project's TOC specified it as a topic's print output format: When gen'ed as a PDF target ...

For Flare 7.1, Windows 7 64-bit. PDF, Word, and WebHelp targets.

(I tried to search the forums for this but couldn't find anything — my apologies in advance if this is a duplicate question.)

IF I modify the H1 text that is referenced by another topic, AND I generate a target, THEN Flare 7.1 is ...

Update: As of this morning, ran update to Flare 7.1.0.

No change.

An update.

I filed a bug on the absence of information in the online help system. In response, Madcap suggested I re-install GhostScript and provided a link to the appropriate Sourceforge page. So, I uninstalled my existing installation of Ghostscript 9.00 for 32-bit Windows and installed ...

For Flare 7, W7 64-bit, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03), SVG lion.svg per the attached ZIP container.

I'm trying to put an SVG image in a Flare topic. When I do, Flare displays a "Java is required to process SVG files" message box, then in the topic displays a "Load failed ...

Regarding the comment by "tamisjoy":

The xref appears correct in PDF -- got the page number and link works, but it is referring to the 2nd use of the topic.

Completely off the top of my head, but have you tried using the h1 through h6 cross-reference building blocks?

In the New Cross-Reference ...

Ah, okay — I get it. The idea is to add autonumbering to a style (in my case H1), then use a separate span class to suppress the display of that autonumbering when the style is used in a topic. Flare will then include that "hidden" autonumbering in the generated TOC.

For those who are trying to ...

Thanks.

Okay, I've created a span class with Chapnum autonumbering, then set that span class's Block display equal to none .

But now I can't figure out where to apply that span class. That is to say that with display equal to none , I can't apply it to the H1 itself(?)

Sorry to be so thick, but I ...

For Capture 5, eval version.

Is it possible to Invert the colors in an image, a.k.a. create a so-called Negative Image ?

Other tools I use make it very easy to create negative images. This in turn enables the writing team to quickly differentiate prototype / pre-production screenshot placeholder ...

For Flare 7, PDF output.

I'm going 'round in circles, and hope someone can help me figure out how to prefix p.TOC1 styles with a chapter number.

In the project's TOC, all H1s are the equivalent of chapters. BUT the chapter numbering is displayed in the heading of the page layout's First page, NOT ...

I'm certainly no expert, but in general I've observed that in print TOCs (PDFs, for example), the TOC typically acquires any autonumber information from the heading level itself.

So, if one has an H1 that has no autonumbering, then no autonumbering appears in the corresponding TOC1 entry ...

Thanks you guys! I'm glad at one level to learn that I wasn't overlooking something entirely obvious…

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

My apologies in advance if I've missed this in the Flare online help or an existing Forum topic. (Dare I say both need better Search tools?)

IF I create a WebHelp system, THEN how can I configure either the help system as a whole OR topics in that help system so that the Browser used to view the ...

Well, if mistakes and stumbles are how one learns, then stumbling over the formatting of xrefs in online help has enabled me (and I suspect others) to have learned quite a bit about CSS configuration for print and non-print mediums…

Thanks to all who have contributed with answers and information!

W:

Doh! That's the control I've been trying to find for the past two days…

I'm not normally this clumsy with tools, but…well, there you have it…

Cheers & thanks much,
Riley
SFO

For Flare 6/7.

I've been using Flare for a bit more than year to generate mostly PDF outputs. Everything's been great.

But now I need to generate the content as a WebHelp system. And I'm having trouble formatting x-refs for online output.

In print, I have a cross-reference of the form {i ...