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don't see how it could be - tho setting resolution on win 10 + parallels is painful, it seems to be fine when I set a resolution right (which is a bit of a mystery). But setting the resolution exits coherence, and soon as I go back in I'm back to this.

doh, solved
google search, not flare help, showed this topic in the forum:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16166

which is why it would be great if Flare help was more comprehensive on this, but this forum is great (better)!

I want to change the background color on what I believe is the header. The logo I added uses black/gray text so it's not very visible.
I've spent a lot of time in the skin changing things around to see the effect, but do not see where to change the header color. If anyone can help and save me some ...

I sent to support as well - the hover text, menus, menu bars display distorted text, hard to read.

Seems display issues are a little trickier with Parallels (12?) + Windows 10 than previously, but settings are good for everything else, after a LOT of fiddling.

Hello all,

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I recently found a new on-line collaborative tool called Annotate from http://www.annotate.co. It allows for online and real-time content collaboration from a variety of document sources (my choice is PDF) and integrates with both Google Docs and Dropbox. What I ...

But a recent Mac can run Windows quite well... the only real annoyance is the Windows license requirement.

But I don't want to run windoze, I want to use Mac. It's not about how it runs, at all...

Round-tripping with Word is very messy! I am disappointed that MadCap recommended this. You are ...

Lack of internal review + windoze requirement are the main reasons I've just researched and tried every single other option. I'm likely returning to Flare, which I like a lot apart from these two things, because the alternatives are frankly much worse.
That said, the Mac feature has been in front of ...

Sorry, yes I switched that on in the Flare target, and there's no folder with the images.

It opens fine on windoze side, even from a different location than the output folder.

Other Word docs passed around the network seem to be fine, but most users are on Macs. Bit tough to test properly, but ...

Haven't tested extensively, and don't think this was broken before, but any Word docs created by Flare on Parallels do not have the images when opened in Word on Mac.

Any word docs I create need to be used on Mac, so this is a showstopper for Word output - which I rarely use but now won't work at ...

few have admitted to this!
Yes, sometimes I have to make a change multiple times before it sticks as well, to both stylesheets and skins.

Not sure if this has lessened in flare 12, more will be revealed

even tho the code looks exactly the same, there are no image tags in a snippet with an image.

only para block shows up on the left, and the image style (thumbnail) is not applied in the output.

anybody else notice this?

Still an issue, years later, even with the 'new, improved' snippet features.

bummer. I can leave the snippet as a paragraph, but don't really want the <p> tag in the table. I could also make a <p> style that matches the table, use that in the snippets - but extra steps, and still don't want the <p ...

I looked into integrating Flare and SalesForce extensively, and found nobody was doing it (imnsho, because it's not a good idea).

However, the developer site is created using Flare, but then setting up a regular web site/server in force.com to host it.

Or so I understood. I'm getting ready to do ...

I have two skins, one working correctly and one not. I see no difference in the settings.

I want a border around the panel. This was working, and now isn't (I also have a script error each time I open a skin, or so I think).

What's happening is that it appears in the preview (within the skin) and ...

Sorry, not understanding - it has to get them from somewhere, skin is just xml right?

I know I can use skin editor to add them but would like to also know _where_ in the project they are, but can live with it, since I've found where to change them all.

Where are these? I only see them in the output, where does the build get them from? I know how to add them into the skin but would rather find the source if possible.

I'd like to see the pot of icons so I can pick which ones to replace first.

Also, I don't see offhand where to change them in the ...

I see others seem to just live with the cleanup required when importing word docs, but wonder if you all have filed bugs?

There is allegedly a 'fix' in Flare 12, 92912, that 'fixes' an issue where 'Do not preserve Word styles' works. allegedly.

I see absolutely no difference, as I've never seen a ...

Plus, theres a longstanding request to allow user to select the font for the text editor. This one is definitely worse, wonder why they changed it...

doh!
it's only for html output - it's in the skin
"Automatically Synchronize TOC" means the topic should display as selected in the toc/nav on the left

so much for that...

hmm - no there is, or was, a setting in Flare. o well...

I can never find this setting, nor the answer here or in the help.

There's a setting to ensure that when navigating a PDF from Flare output, the appropriate topic is selected in the nav/toc on the left.

Where the heck is that?? This is PDF, so should be in the Target, but have looked through all ...

It's showing up as black - transparent in snagit and other image editors, but whether I copy and paste it or put it in the project and drag it, it's black in the editor.

Haven't tried publishing as i got one that works but am I missing something?

I was using VMWare for the first time - have always used parallels.

I started waiting 15+ seconds for my typing to appear, so I imagine I wasn't seeing this change because of this.

Going to try parallels again, will switch if it eliminates.

Doh! Thank you!!

I tried all those different fields, think it didn't visually update so I didn't know it changed. Some computer issues today, slowed down....

Thanks again. If the Flare help is ever more task-oriented maybe finding 'where to do stuff' will be easier.

Is this possible? I've played with the skin for ages and looked at the unhelpful help (it would be great if it mapped different things you can change, with screenshots - instead there's a screenshot of the skin editor, which reproduces the same problem of not knowing what to change where!).

I can ...