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Okay, so with some help from Andrew, I've found out how to clean up a variety of detritus Flare 6/7 stuffs into the Windows Registry.

But the more I think about Flare's use of the Registry in this way, the unhappier I become.

First, and per my preceding post to this thread, there needs to be some ...

I've read this thread and understand the "nowrap" circumvention. But as best I can tell, it is only a circumvention, not a true fix(?)

With that in mind, I have a question / thought.

WHY is it, insofar as Flare is more or less XHTML based, that it does not permit cross-references AND variables to ...

Andrew:

Thanks. I'm a registry editor from way back…

I think I'll also file an Enhancement Request to provide some user-friendlier way to maintain this list. (My current list has projects I haven't opened in more than one year…)

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

For Flare 7 (and 6, for that matter).

IF one has worked on a variety of Flare projects over time, how does one remove very old lists of path names retained by the "helpful" drop-down lists stored by the program?

For example:

1. In a Flare project, double-click a project Target to display its ...

Ramon:

What would be non-standard XHTML in Flare output? I cannot see anything non-standard. Do you have an example?

Flare's XHTML target isn't exactly XHTML. Instead, it's meant to be read by the Madcap-provided reader as an XHTML book.

As such, the .htm files output as part of a Flare XHTML ...

Lisa:

What I'm thinking of is NOT an online help system of any sort.

Instead, it's "plain vanilla" HTML or XHTML content of the sort displayed as part of an ordinary Web page. For example, the prose on this page, but NOT the stuff necessary to create the entire page layout:

http://www.pwc.com/us ...

I have a customer who wants three types of single-sourced outputs:


PDF and HTML-based online help
Web pages that are part of a larger corporate Web site


I have experience using Flare to produce the first two targets. I have no experience using Flare to produce the third.

My first thought ...

…a graphic, which was inserted by reference in the topic, is replaced in the WORD output with a box with that little X graphics icon in the corner. …is there a fix?

Bernie:

I'm no expert, but I believe your instance of Word is configured to show graphics placeholders rather than the graphics ...

lacastle wrote:Yeah, this is a Word problem, not a Flare/CSS problem.

Word problems I can live with. How about PDF output, which seems to be working?

Cheers & thanks,
RBV

Lisa. Thanks! Or more accurately, thanks but RATS! I want it for print but was hoping CSS would be the way to go.

Okay, I*'ll work around the problem for now.

By the by, does Madcap consider the apparent inability to use CSS to style print output to be a bug? If yes, might if have been fixed in V7 ...

I want to create a single-line heading that has some left-aligned text AND some right-aligned text. The longer I try to find my way through this, the worse the results get…

The effect is as follows:

HEADING2 Text left-aligned ......[periods used only in this example to force spacing ...

Genunine thanks to all who responded.

So far, so good!

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley

I'm going 'round in circles but just can't figure out how to set up the CSS styles required to put a graphic on the left-side of a one-column page, and some explanatory text to the right of that graphic.

For a start, I definitely do NOT want a two-column layout.

What I have is a tall, relatively ...

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How I fixed my own problem.

After deleting the files reported as the source of the error from the TOC did not change the error, I went to the project's directory of files and moved those two files out of the project entirely.

I then re-gen'ed the project. This time Flare reported not ...

Having cleaned up MANY "Unresolved link to file" errors, I have two errors I can't fix.

In Flare 6.1, I'm generating a Word target of a project I'm cleaning up. Where I've had "unresolved link to file" errors, I've used Find in Files to find the referenced files (they were removed from the project ...

I added this PNG screenshot of the error message Flare 6.1 is giving me when I try to generate a FrameMaker 9 target.

Flare0601FrameMakerERRORMessage.png

Windows 7 64-bit fully patched, Flare 6.1, FrameMaker 9 fully patched.

As I said, I did uninstall-reinstall Flare but the error remains ...

Lisa:

Nope, I did an un-install then re-installed and it still doesn't work. Behavior is exactly the same: "Can't contact FrameMaker. Perhaps it's busy. Do you want to try again?"

Oh well, it's not a show stopper right now, merely an annoyance.

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley

For Windows 7 64-bit, Flare 6.1, FrameMaker 9 fully patched.

When generating a FrameMaker target, Flare 6.1 "hangs" and displays a message box that states that Flare "can't contact FrameMaker" ("would you like to try again).

My circumvention is to manually start FM 9 before creating the FM target ...

Is anyone using Flare to write content that is eventually delivered in one or more of the common eBook formats?

I'm especially interested in how to use Flare 6 to author content that can be submitted to the tool or process used to create ePub and Mobi compliant files.

I realize that Flare doesn't ...

As the original poster, I thought I'd add some things my customer and I learned from our first localized Flare project.

First, expedience of a sort led my customer to go forward with the use of Word files as an exchange medium. Not surprisingly, the results were sub-optimal with regard to the ...

Did anyone try using "Syntax Highlighter"?

I haven't tried it yet (and am enjoying a bit of downtime at the moment), but intend to experiment with it on my next Flare project…

Have you opened a pdf created on your colleague's machine on your's? And vice versa? I'm wondering about display settings here...

Yes: I began by viewing a pretty and not-pretty PDF on my computer to ensure that it wasn't just a screen settings or display rendering problem: The not-pretty PDF ...

For Flare 6.1, two separate users, two separate computers (ASUS laptop W7 64-bit, IBM Lenovo XP 32-bit), two separate copies of Flare 6.1, two separate copies of full-feature Adobe Acrobat 9.

Does anyone happen to have any idea why Flare builds pretty PDFs on my W7 64-bit laptop, but not on another ...

For Flare 6.1 -- Is anyone else running Windows 7 (64-bit in my case, although I'm not sure that matters), installed this month's sets of Window Updates, and then noticed some behavioral changes in Flare 6.1?

Flare behaves in ways it did not do before, including:

- Intermittent operation of Spell ...

I'll add that having experimented with a few different techniques, I found that editing the XML was fastest.

The assumptions are that I have two (or more) tables that use the same table CSS, and that each of those identical table types has the same number of columns.

I first use the WYSIWYG topic ...