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Do you mean the 'medium' ? I only have one stylesheet and one medium. Default. I would have expected changes made here should be reflected in my Print output....
or am I doing something wrong here.....

I understand having aPrint version of the stylesheet to change things and make them specific for ...

Hi all,
In my project all images have styles assigned, in that style I set the margin-top and bottom to 10px. Gives a nice spacing between any text before and after without using hard-returns to force it. For webhelp output this works fine.

However, when I publish to Word, no spacing is retained, I ...

Bit tricky as RH just upgraded to v9 and all my gripes are regarding RH8. So many things just seemed un-finished and like they could have gone a few extra steps to make things better.

But from v8 that I was using before moving to Flare...

RH could only add a snippet as a block of text. It could ...

Hi all,
I have a couple tables in my project that are quite wide. A solution to this in Word was having the column headings as vertical text.

Is there any to acheive the same thing in Flare?

Thanks,
Nick

Well this is slowly getting worse and worse......2 hours of work this morning in Flare. A large project, but only about 10 topics or items opened at once. My main TOC always open so I can get my files quickly and in the order I need.

So far, its using 1.2GB of RAM and basically crippling my whole ...

Thanks for the info.

Cross-references in the Word output would use a field for the page number; so you'd need to update fields to reflect any changes.

This is what I was hoping was NOT the case. Some of these docs are a few hundred pages long. Sifting through and updating references will be ...

Hi all,
Quick question.
Can you single source a TOC?

I have 12 'books' that are created for print output. These 12 books make up the Webhelp that we also create.

I'd like to be able to use these 12 TOCs to make up the main TOC. Makes it much easier to maintain the labels, levels and everything ...

Perfect case for HTML5.....shame its hardly supported or defined yet....

I havent started with links ....yet. Hence the post. I wanted to get some feedback before I start and I still have an outstanding support call with MadCap and cant generate any Word content from my project. So I'm looking for details before I spend too much time putting in links without being able ...

kafkascampi wrote:Hi

I have some long FAQ titles in my TOC, and they are causing horizontal scrolling in the TOC pane. I can't find a CSS way to specify a max width for that pane. Is there another way to do this?

thanks!

Chris

Did you manage to get this working? Would love a solution to this.

Hi all,
I have a project made up of 12 different books. For online (webhelp) this is create as a single help system. For print, we split it into the 12 books.
I'm wondering about the best way to deal with bookmarks etc.
I have links within 1 book, from a page or section to another pag eor section in ...

Hi all,
Wondering if anyone here has implemented a custom search solution for WebHelp?
Flares search feature is pretty weak imo, results are never very refined, the small pane and lack of any content from the topic is has returned makes it difficult to see how that topic relates to a search ...

Yeah I saw that thread before I imported my docs, which is why I decided to do them all at once. I dont need to maintain a connection back to Word, and it seemed the better option to have the import template to keep things consistant.
I didnt imagine that there would be zero folder structure built ...

I have now used all 3 of those tools, RH 8, Flare 6.1 and AuthorIT, v4 I think it was....

To be honest, all have their weaknesses, and strengths. RoboHelp and Flare are very similiar, and RH has just released v9 so I'm sure there are a few good improvements in there. You can look at the html behind ...

Surely if I moved the files outside of Flare then all links within it will break as they wont be updated. TOC links, hyperlinks etc?

I dont have my project sitting on a network drive, everything is local.

I was hoping to use something like conditionals so that I could easily see which of the 12 books a particular topics is part of. I was hoping that setting a conditional tag in the TOC might show up in the context explorer. the TOC seems to be the only way I can tie these topics back to where they ...

I was already using that, problem is there are 1,200 topics, and they are shown in alphabetical order. Needless to say, using the CTRL method just means I'm scrolling from one end to the other looking for the files that I need, and the only way to identify them is to check it against the TOC. Its ...

Hi all,
Since I finished importing all content into Flare, around 2500 pages of word docs, everything got dumped into the Content Explorer in one folder. It means all Images are in 1 folder called Images, and all htm files are in one folder called Help.
When I open either of these folders in Content ...

Hi all,
I'm going through our Skin and customising the look and feel of it all.

Is there somewhere to control the color of a TOC entry for a mouse-over (hover), clicked, and not clicked as well as the background colors etc.
I can only seem to change the font and font color, though those same ...

So I was generating some output to Word to test a few different layouts etc.

Now I keep getting this error, and cant generate anything. Not sure if its related to Word, or Flare or both....If I click Yes or No to the 'Continue opening the File' message, I still get the same error from Flare.

The ...

For the custom bullets, I cant get anything to work. These need to be images, I will have to figure out a work around in Word.

As for screen shots, I have tried re-sizing them in Capture, and setting Print sizes etc that other people have suggested. It still causes the same problem. Only way around ...

Hi all,
I'm still battling with this one.

Trying to get a custom image displayed as a bullet in Word. For webhelp it works fine, the issue is Word output.

I have tried a few different styles and neither are giving me any joy.

Initially I had a p style with a custom bullet image. This worked fine ...

Good to know.

I never use special characters in file names. Things like this always happen, even leave out spaces and capital letters these days.

Error messages always end up being written by developers and not normal people.....thems the breaks huh.

Least you got a solution.

Off the top of my head....

Get your photo, write the text (if any is required) over the photo in a image editor, like photoshop.
Now you have an image with text over the top, you cant move the text, but with this you can put image-maps over the top.

Put the photo into the topic, right click and ...

Thanks for that.
I messed around with that width setting, 95% seems to give me the best results and stick within my margins nicely.

Still having issues with borders not being set and custom bullets, probably have to set them as <ul> styles I think to fix that one. Shouldnt be too hard, simply find ...