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Riley, I don't mean to appear impolite, but can't you just make one of your print targets the primary target?
Hey Nita! That's not impolite — thanks for the idea.

I'll think about it. Doing that does feel like a circumvention rather than a true fix insofar as PDF output is a secondary output ...

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For Flare 11, IF a project has a separate print-only CSS stylesheet file, AND one is editing Page Layouts, THEN is there some way to get the Page Layout editor to use the print-only CSS file?

The project's primary Target is Flare 11's new TopNav skinless HTML5. Because TopNav's CSS includes ...

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I'm not a Lingo user. I did take a look at the product's Web page on madcapsoftware.com and didn't find an answer.

So -- does Lingo provide any assistance for the translation of cross-reference text such as the "page" text string in an xref of the form '{i}{paratext}{/i} on page {page ...

I have read many threads concerning the use of HTML5 Slides in an instructional setting and this thread is the closest to a similar question I also have. If you would like, I could post my question to the larger audience for more input.

Respectfully,
Ryan M
@Ryan:

As the OP I have no problem ...

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A quick update: Madcap support suggested that my use of a DIV to manage page breaks in lists could be supplanted by creating a LI class that included the page-break-inside: avoid attribute.

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

Rather, because Word does not support divs, I am fairly certain that when Flare generates a Word doc, it unbinds whatever is in a div from the div, that it, it strips the div tag outright.
That's perfectly acceptable.

But it does then affirm the problem I saw wherein LIs that were the first item ...

Hey Nita:

I figured out early on that Word doesn't "understand" DIVs from a positioning standpoint. I didn't realize that DIVs in general confounded Word in non-positioning ways.

If that's the case it gets in the way of using DIVs to, for example, manage page breaks in PDF Targets. I can accept ...

dorcutt wrote:Incidentally, I found some of those newline "li"s in my word output also the other day. Good times.

See if this helps: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21015

Cheers,
Riley
SFO

For Flares 10 or 11, Word (2007) Target.

If you have time to perform an experiment, try this:

Create a topic with an OL or UL.

Wrap one or more LI s in a DIV so that the LI is the first element in the DIV.

Gen the topic as a Word Target.
What happened to me is that in the Word Target, all ...

I ended up creating hyperlinks simply to get the Word output usable for the deadline. Not a fix, merely a circumvention.

@Dorcutt:

EDIT: I believe I found in Word the tools you referred to. But even though I have the style selected in the Word document, and the style is listed in the long Style window / list, if I then right-click that style the Select All option is disabled (greyed out) and has "Not currently used ...

@dorcutt:

Thanks for the ideas.

I only have Word 2007 to work with.

The Flare option had no apparent effect.

The XREFs work fine in PDF and HTML5.

I'm normally good with tools, but am having SEVERAL problems with Flare 10 & 11 Word output. I also have LIs that are followed immediately by a ...

As mentioned, only the page number tends to be clickable. Maybe that can help with the troubleshooting.

Additionally, I would add that sometimes Word x-refs can be a bit wonky. I'd try a number of them in different places, and make sure that the heading that you're referencing does not contain a ...

For Flare 10 or 11, both exhibit the same behavior / defect.

Are cross-references supposed to be working in Word (2007) Targets? If yes, what limitations do or do not currently apply to the format of those XREFs?

There have been some earlier discussions about the non-operation of XREFs in Word ...

I'm having problems with xrefs in Word (2007), too.

Flares 10 or 11, the XREF format is "{i}{paratext}{/i}". Dead on arrival in Word. Other XREFs to seem to work.

No idea what to do.

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

Thanks all. This post is a lifesaver. I changed the first decoration frame to an image frame and voila--the text in the second decoration frame appeared! :D
What version of Flare are you using? I ask because this thread started in March 2011 (Flare 7?) and your comment has been made in March 2015 ...

Thanks to all who've posted information on this topic!

I attempted to generate some PDF output yesterday whose content references several SVG resources, only to receive a rather unspecific Error Processing SVG File message during the build. Gee... What could that mean?
I strongly suggest sending ...

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For Flare 10 today, probably Flare 11 soon.

What are the issues surrounding Flare's HTML5 Target, that Target's use of Frames or iFrames, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

I work as a contractor who today has a customer that is being told by their marketing department that FrameMaker ...

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For Flare 10 fully updated, HTML5 Target, Windows 7 64-bit fully patched.

How if at all does one add a border to a Glossary popup of type hyperlink ?

I found my way to the following CSS which mostly works:

span.MCTextPopupBody
{
color: #009933;
background-color: white;
border: solid ...

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For Flare 10, HTML5 Target.

I've managed to solve a problem that arose when I was asked to include a Glossary as a topic page in an HTML5 Target.

More specifically, when I generated a Glossary that worked perfectly well in a PDF, generating that same page in an HTML5 Target added bullets ...

I'm not that familiar with XHTML, but I'm currently doing something like this with the DITA output…
Thanks for that thought — I'd forgotten about Flare's DITA Target. Perhaps because as an output parts of it are so un-DITA like.

I wish Flare had a better DITA story. But that's a conversation ...

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For Flare 10 (and presumably beyond), XHTML Target type.

Has anyone made use of Flare's XHTML Target to produce output that was then readily converted into / assimilated into / exchanged with a standards-compliant XHTML Web site or the like?

Flare's authoring capabilities include features ...

Riley - I'm assuming you've tried this option and know that it works (well, apart from using a colon in the autonumber), so what is the problem in your output?
At this point the inability to use colons in the headings is a show-stopper -- Flare 10 generates the TOC entries but clicking those ...

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I've read this thread and am wondering how many hoops I'd need to jump through to get autonumbering into an HTML5 Target's TOC panel.

Per the Flare OLH topic About Autonumbers , and as noted in this thread, This feature is supported in EPUB and in all print outputs (Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe ...

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Update after filing a bug with Madcap per bug 73982 :

it looks like the behavior has to do with the colon at the end of the autonumber format, if that is removed or changed to anything else the TOC links function normally.

Okay, removing the colon (":") after the word Task provides a ...