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The option is Show Markers.

Unfortunately, turning this off turns off span style markers, which are very useful to have turned on.

The other thing is, turning this on and off does seem to affect the page layout when looking at it for print as this little icon can move content onto another page if ...

Hi all,
In my topics, there is this small piece of code xml:lang="en-gb" that is at the top of every page. This lovely code puts a small flag at the top of my topics, I wouldnt care so much, except it throws out my page layout etc as it accounts for spac ein my page.

Can this be turned off ...

and to add one more thing to this, when I generate to Word, borders around my images aren't created. Am I missing something?

Hi all,
Few issues at the moment with Print layouts and generation.

1. When previewing a topic in the Print layout the images that I have are shown in their fullsize, breaking well over the margin. I have these all set as an <img> style, and in WebHelp I have set the thumbnail etc for them, is ...

Hi all,
Is it possible?
I have a hundreds table with plenty of rows and a couple columns in each. Because we are wanting to produce WebHelp and Printed material, its important that I can set the width of this first column in the tables. Doing that means that the table will auto-size if its in a ...

haha, oh well....good luck with the support call. Let us know what they find out.

Well at least AIR works....sort of....perhaps something 'special' in your project thats causing a headache? Embedded PDFs? Custom Scripts?

Hard to know if its down to a topic or a project setting.

You could try...

Create a new target, set it to generate the AIR for just one simple topic, the ...

That'll do it.

Thanks.

Hi all,

Is there a fast way to query an image and see where it is being used? I was imagining some easy right-click option showing all links, but I cant find anything. Just want to see where an iamge is being used before I decide to change it, or delete it.

Thanks,
Nick

How many of you actually make your own style guide?

I've worked in 3 different s/w companies now and all have had their own style guides. Maybe some stuff was taken from guides like MS etc, but generally the styles are always custom and have been created internally.

Interesting....

If you want to be really sneaky, take the file home, install AIR runtime on a home PC that you know you have the rights for, then try and install the help......if it gives you the same error even then it may be something else.....you could test it further by downloading some other help files or AIR ...

Almost guarantee that it is related to installation rights.
.air is basically a .exe and windows sees it as such, after isntalling for a little while, but not actually doing anything, it hits that error.

I had it myself for a long while before I figured it out. It was saying my project was corrupt ...

that will do nicely. Thank you!!

Does it?
A square select tool, circle....anything? I just want to give some white space on each side of my captures to add a few text boxes in white space, I thought I could just increase the page width and drag the image into the middle to give me space on each side so I can put boxes in the white ...

Please forgive my total stupidity, but how are you applying the torn edge effect in MadCap Capture?

Hi all.
Quick question, when building webhelp, can Flare be set to only generate files that have been amended or changed. I've noticed its taking a long time to generate our help, and I think its because the whole thing is being built each time. Would be a lot faster if only changed files are ...

Interesting about the conditional indicators, I haven't even got any conditionals setup yet, so I'm not sure if thats affecting, though perhaps the option is turned on and thats enough to cause a problem....will have to check it out. thanks for the tip.
Nick

Hi all,
We are still to implement our WebHelp system on our servers and I'm wondering something.

Currently, we are looking at 3 different version of our help file for each of the 3 client types we have. 90% of content will be the same for everyone, but there are some sections which any one of those ...

In my project, the <img> tag is applied to different kinds of images, depending on how I want the click or hover to activate the thumbnail. I have <img_1> and <img_2> sub-classes. Each of those has the property set, and there is no property set on the parent <img> class. Have you checked that the ...

Currently, I have a lot of thumbnails, it simply makes the pages a lot clearer, but when trying to print these, the thumbnail prints, I would prefer to set the full sized version of the image to show up instead? Is this possible?

Thanks,
Nick

Hi all,
I'm interested to know what people are doing to display large screen capture images in their webhelp.

Our help has a lot of images, based on our webapp, so they are generally 1024*768 captures, these were resized in Word, then the Word doc sent to PDF. When printed they come out very ...

thanks for the info, I will have to look into it further down the track I think.

While we're talking about lists, do you know if there is a way to change the decimal to a different symbol, I'm wanting to use a bracket ) to seperate numbers from text in some of my lists, rather than decimal points.

Yeah the forum didnt display it right at all....should've checked it before posting. duh.

but removing the Inside spacing just puts the numbering into 'default' format, whereby the numbers and text have the same space between them, instead, I want the numbering to be left aligned, with a floating ...

I can use the list-style-position to Inside.

This aligns the numbers to the left, however text that goes over the line will fall below the number and the space between the number and text doesnt float to line the text up smoothly.

What im looking for is this:

1. text text text text text text text ...

I've already done the standard turn on/off stuff, and the spikes dont happen when I open the project. Right now, I've got the project open, its using about 160K and zero CPU. But as soon as I start jumping around between topics and opening stuff up, RAM usage starts to climb, and it never comes back ...