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Haven't seen that error message, but I have tried to use Mimic's on-screen video recording. My suggestion is, don't. I've never been happy with the results.

It's a lot more work on your part, but you can use keyframes to build your own animation. Start with an image of the background and an image ...

GDI+ is a Windows utility, not Madcap's. Could be something in Capture going wrong to trigger it, but I'd look at the computer first. Can you put a trial version on another machine (Windows 10 perhaps) and try the image there?

I'm just finishing my first Mimic project. I plan to build a lot more.

Do you like Mimic?
Yes and no. More in the summary...

How do you find producing MP4 output?
After installing the required codec (grr!) I had a few errors. But those went away "by themselves". Now, it's easy. Could be faster ...

Was about to ask for help, but it seems this is a "feature". Flare can shift annotations around if it thinks it should

I was experimenting with annotations in Capture. (Not sure that I like the look anyway, but...)
My first attempt in Capture is as follows. The image looks the same if I open it ...

Without actually venturing to build a tri-pane project, I'd say "yes". The basics are the same.

Apologies for missing the detail of target choice. That's certainly relevant.

I still hold that the problem is coming from an as-yet unidentified variable in the mix. I tried to recreate the situation using the MadCap sample project. My steps and results are as follows:
1) I imported your p.Title ...

When I build my HTML5 movie, I have the single output file option checked. What does that mean? My output folder is full of images, css, htm, ...

If I wanted to pack this up to send somewhere, does everything need to go along, or only parts of it?

There's nothing that you can define for the h3 to turn it into a drop-down. You'll need to replace them all, where the h3 text becomes the drop-down title and everything following to the next heading gets wrapped into the drop-down body. Could get messy. Not sure if even pluqin's style replacer ...

Sounds similar to a mistake I once made with position tags. See this post:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27958

Taking it one piece at at time, title border first.

Time to open your browser's style inspector and see what else is going on with that title. I created a .css file with your sample and used it in a simple .htm file. What I got looks like the following:
TitlePadding.png
Seems to me that something ...

Lord knows I'm not CSS expert, but I think the first trouble may be related to how the font fits within its defining box. At the least, I'd specify the margins in terms of em rather than px. There are a couple of useful links that I refer to when I'm having trouble with this stuff...
http ...

The only answer I can think of for that is this link to the MadCap feature request page...
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback ... quest.aspx

Lot of questions for one post. I'll see what I can do...

a) Cross-references and formatting: Depends on the output, but in general it's a matter of setting your CSS to produce what you want.

b) That's what it does. Really, it's a good thing. There are other threads on the topic.

c) Reports. You ...

If I use Ctrl-Shift-A to capture the active window, I always get a border on three sides of the window, which is a view of whatever is behind the window. The Windows Alt-PrtScr combination doesn't do that. (Compare left and right images, attached.)

I suspect that this has something to do with how ...

IIRC, in version 12 Flare went from an implied "or" to an implied "and" between words in a search.

You might try enabling partial word searches. I can't find any notes for how to change back to an implied "or".
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2016r2/Content/Search/Searching_Outputs/Search ...

Two answers that I can think of. Pretty sure that you could write (or find) a JScript program to pull the date using any locale. Or, you could go the easy route and switch to the ISO format: YYYY mm dd.

Glad that you don't have to use leading numeric values for the month and day. I never know ...

<shrug> Post-processing of the file, maybe? I dunno, I gave up trying to create the things.

Responding to a very old topic, but I needed to do exactly this today and couldn't see any more recent discussion of it. After working out how to capture the tooltip, it didn't seem right to leave this discussion thread hanging; Someone might get the idea that it's hard to do.

The "trick" is to use ...

Keyframes. Read here...

http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/mimic8/Content/Objects/Keyframes/Adding_Keyframes.htm?Highlight=keyframe

The example is exactly what I wanted to do. Took me two hours of experimenting before I stumbled across that feature. I'm discovering that 4 times out of 5, the ...

Very good input, and I greatly appreciate both responses. The single project route is the one that I'm leaning toward, but I was questioning my choice.

As Nita suggests, it's a matter of percentage. If 90% of the information for an output is unique to that output, and 10% matches the main project ...

Here's a philosophical question for you: Given...
a) a large set of documentation files,
b) a need to create several course workbooks,
c) and also how-to documents for various product features,
d) where those workbooks and how-to documents will contain some content that's in the documentation ...

Good question. Made me interrupt my day until I figured out the answer. I can see lots of uses for special characters in variables.

I haven't had success trying to add one with the user interface, but you can add anything you want to the flvar file. You'll find that in your project folder ...

Sheesh! The things that hide in plain sight. Thank-you for pointing out that unbind feature to me - I've completely ignored it until now!

You could try editing the xml file, SideMenu.flskn. At about line 57 you could copy the style class for the 4th level and name the copy 5th level. Just tried that in a sample project and the fifth level is available for formatting.

Not sure how well that will work out in your project. There may be ...

You can force word breaks with in the style for an element. Note that there may be browser support issues with that. There's also If I may, I also suggest looking into using div tags to display columns rather than using tables.