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I have just downgraded back to Flare 2024 as this was the effect I found on svgs used in page layouts!

Haven't yet figured out how to fix it in Flare 2025 - but will need to if I'm to keep using Flare for printed docs.

Here is the top of my datasheet in Flare 2024 (image size limits wouldn't let ...

Yes it can be done

Just insert a hyperlink to the "File in Project", pointing to the folder where that pdf lives

In my example it looks like this, with all my pdfs in a folder called pdfs:
<a href="../pdfs/VTAP_Commands_Reference_Guide.pdf">VTAP&#160;Settings and Commands Reference</a>

pdf ...

One suggestion for an "easy" option that I have gone with in the past.

Set up sidenav only, but don't display the sidenav menu on the home page by setting the relevant area to display:none; in a home page specific stylesheet. Then include your own top level menu "buttons" across the top of the home ...

I am struggling with the way that Flare messes with scripts as side nav help is compiled.

I see I have several options to insert scripts - in the topic head/body, in the master page head, or in the target Advanced tab for Add content to head.
These all seem to lead to different results in the ...

I have a big project, with some code snippets included in topics, running on Windows 10.

Once upon a time (I couldn't say which Flare version, a couple of years ago) I could select "Code Snippet" on the Insert ribbon and have a window launch to help me organise my code snippet.

Now, in MadCap ...

These are not pretty, but they might just help. I used two approaches in one project several years ago, which needed rendering as html5 help and pdfs. I'm not sure which type is most relevant to you, so I include both.

1.Some headings required large images - they needed a div and I kept the image ...

In that sort of situation I would use a target for each customer.

So, customer Joe gets the target 'Product X User Guide - Joe' initially at version v1.0 (set in the target). Joe's manual contains an extra topic about some special beta-test features that are only in his version of 'Product X User ...

Nothing like posting a query to help you solve your own problem. It eventually came down to character count on this path. This one finally worked after moving the project, taking page layouts and targets out of subfolders, abbreviating the target title and page layout title....

C:\Users\abcdef ...

Perhaps the wise people in my computer can help with this?

Generating Glossary...
Processing Page Layouts...
Build failed: A generic error occurred in GDI+.

This is a pdf target which compiled many times before just fine. It is the 'internal' version of a pdf target which continues to compile just ...

Think of a div as a container for a whole paragraph or more. Doing pdf documents I often put a div around a combination of figure and figure label, or preamble plus table. I then apply PrintSupport settings to the div style to avoid column, frame or page breaks within the div. From a css point of ...

Never brave enough to be an early adopter, so I have no first-hand experience of Flare 2022 yet - I am waiting to see what others think of it!

The system requirements haven't changed over the last year, but if your old hardware was running close to the 8GB RAM limit then this update could be one ...

Absolutely - I just closed every other application and found it sat on my desktop at the lowest level. Though it might be affected by the way your virus checker interacts with Word warnings. I'm on Windows 10 with AVG Business.

This must have been a very recent change - I rarely do MSWord targets ...

Maybe connected with this - I had a Word target seemingly stuck embedding images.
When I eventually decided to close everything on my desktop, delete output folders and so on, to try again I found an innocuous pop up (underneath Flare) asking if Word should allow a document free rein to change ...

Ooh - that's exciting. I fudged it for a short datasheet with a div after each heading, but this should allow me to set up my user guides differently. Thanks.

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Sadly it doesn't work in pdf targets - they don't seem to respect the pseudo element - although it does work for html5 ...

I am having a moment trying to implement this, and thought the good people on the Internet might be able to tell me where I'm going wrong.
I want headings to have a 60px line underneath, beginning at the left margin.
I knew underlining wouldn't work, so I've been trying to do something with the ...

You don't say whether you've set up a file filter for importing Word documents - this ought to be the way to deal with it.

I've used Flare for years and occasionally had to translate things into one other language through Flare.
Now I'm trying a project with 8 languages where some targets are published single language and some multilingual.
I am creating a web of Flare and Lingo projects which seem to do the trick, but ...

Hello Belynda

If I have a table with a distinct autonumbered caption style, I generate this sort of thing, which I think is what you are looking for -
This display uses the same set of colours for door events as the floor plan, see Table 14-1 Key to door colours and events.

The code behind the ...

I concur with chocciemuffin - report it as a bug - I get it too.

It depends a bit how 'live' your data is...
I have used the free Kaizen Plugin with Flare to import database content into topics, in a way that can automatically rebuild on a daily basis. Not technically 'live', but 'live enough' for my needs.

My figure numbering works fine and it relies on p.Figure which looks like this
mc-auto-number-format: 'CF:Figure {chapnum}-{n+} ';
This gives me 'chapter number - incrementing number (stored under F) within each chapter (C)'. My TOC ensures that the chapter number increments and the counter resets ...

The default images are with your installation files, in my case in C:\Program Files\MadCapSoftware\Madcap Flare 15\Flare.app\Resources\Images\WebHelp
but you can point to any other image you want to use by altering your stylesheet.

Madcap offers Madcap Contributor https://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/contributor/ (which the title of your post made me think you were asking about...)
That's a cut down Flare interface, and designed for SMEs to add their contributions in an 'easy to integrate' format without learning much about ...

Perhaps I'm a luddite, but I'd concur with Dave Lee and recommend you should mistrust the auto-import option.

When I use GPL I prefer to get in the habit of doing a manual update before building the target. This means I get to doublecheck what is being updated (or not) before it happens. (Most of ...

I would say the answer's not out there because "it depends" on which of the madcap features you plan to use and which type of targets you are creating.

The topics themselves are just xml files and will be read by an older version of Flare just as much as a new one, but you might find yourself using ...