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I don't want the news and connection, for either flare or capture, when running this from home. I'm on a vm and when I turn on my work vpn on the windoze side, it blocks internet connection. Need the vpn to use/capture/doc the software.

Most programs allow this to be turned off, but I don't see ...

I don't want the news and connection, for either flare or capture, when running this from home. I'm on a vm and when I turn on my work vpn on the windoze side, it blocks internet connection. Need the vpn to use/capture/doc the software.

Most programs allow this to be turned off, but I don't see ...

Every time I build for some targets, errors are reported about missing images.

These are not there, and I don't know why the build is trying to find them.

Any suggestions how to find bogus links? Obviously I can't click on them to find what links to them, since they're not there!

tia

I've just seen where in the Target to rename a pdf file on publish, so that I can have a more formal name for the doc and consistent intuitive naming of the Targets.

However, I can't see how to do this for webhelp. I want to name the output folder differently from the Target name, is there a way to ...

I've tested it - only other thing was About, and turning it on or off is the same. Not sure you understand what I'm saying here, this is what appears:

Table of Contents >

that's it

apple's iphone help shows a list of topics, which is clearly a lot better
have submitted a support issue & will ...

this can't be changed? nobody else's help looks like this, it's highly undesirable to have to open the thing right at the start.

So not sure what you mean by 'normal' unless it means terrible!

Thanks for the reply, I hope there's a way 'round this.

Thanks for this!
This is my experience, many things that should just work require troubleshooting, replies from madcap, and explanation of how to make it work.

And yes, the docs - which I'd read were really good, pre-purchase - are sorely lacking. I've tried to use the comment feature to let them ...

this worked, think I got the same advice from madcap, thanks kindly

I don't understand why this should be the case, why pdf output would be different from word, and why I keep having to do special steps to achieve the 'default' and desired results.

I do appreciate all the suggestions and quick ...

that's what I said in the first place, that I could do that - but it _should_ be based on the <a> class/style, instead of me just modifying the look.

I thought this worked at one point, but using both the default and my skins for mobile help, the first page displays two entries only - TOC and About

This is obviously not what you want - the TOC should be expanded so that the Level 1 topics display when you open the thing.

The webhelp that uses ...

hi all, thanks

I did finally resolve this, the mc-header level was wrong as suggested
However, I did not modify this

additionally, there is only one way to change it - from Advanced view in the stylesheet, change that property
You can make the change using the simple view, but get an error each ...

it doesn't, that's the trouble - it displays as bold black text, no blue, no underline

many of these 'default' things don't work as expected and it's a bit difficult to track down why.

I haven't modified either of these, but they do not display as links, as both of you suggest they should.

thanks ...

images resize beautifully in word without me having to do anything

However, in the pdf they are cut off on the right. Very inelegant way to handle!! Anybody having success with PDF output?

Nothing that seems obvious to fix this works - there are a lot of options that either aren't explained or don ...

o duh, thought I'd tried that but you're absolutely right

Thanks kindly

But what if you want the actual thumbnail to display bigger?
the mc-thumbnail stuff allows you to set maximum height, but I want them to be bigger, so you can actually see what it is a bit more.

tx

hi

In case nobody's answered, this is a bug. if you look at flare's help without the window expanded it happens there too.

sigh

Use TOC depth for heading levels doesn't work in word/pdf output either. It is exactly reversing level 1 and 2, which is a pain and renders it useless.

This may be in office 2010 but will check another time.

Do I have to set it up with blue, underline, etc, instead of just having it display as a link?? Suppose I can do that, but it's kinda odd

btw, this is now a registered bug and Flare is aware of it. Unfortunately we can't see our bugs, unless I'm missing something, but only that ^&*()form. It's case 20485

They said to use click or popup styles but it happens with these styles as well

best

I set some conditions, and they are definitely not working. Any tips what I could be doing wrong, if that's the cause, would be greatly appreciated.

I select text in a topic - paragraphs, lists - using the formatting bars so I'm sure I have the whole thing.
I select Format > Conditions and set to ...

Thanks folks!
There are quite a lot of these 'tips and tricks' Glad you all are here! Would be great to have it in the docs, but maybe it is...

That list does come up - sometimes. I have to click a couple of times to get it, and sometimes by then the formatting's fubar.

Also, this is happening ...

Thank you!

why is blockquote not available in the Styles dropdown, and is there any way to make it so?

Ideally it would be in the List styles, since there doesn't seem to be any list continue style (to indent something without bulleting or numbering it)

thx

I dug around and found this once, clearly, as one file is named correctly, but now can't find it.

How does the html help get the 'webhelp' name, and where can I change this?

thx

btw, how to do this is by setting the medium to print - this is at the top of the topic in editor