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I have also reported this bug - the text in my callouts vanishes when pdfs are built under 2018, fine with 2017r3.
(There appears to be no problem in the xml editor or preview, only on build.)


2017 r3
2018

I've done that for many years without any problems.

I'm sure I have done this in the distant past, but cannot work out how!

When you select a header item, in my top nav help, the dropdown menu is aligned with the right hand edge of the menu item it is associated with:

I want the left hand edge of the dropdown to align with the left hand edge of the ...

In your switch to divs, do put the colour on the div, not on the paragraph.

One other suggestion, a work around rather than a cure, is to increase the z-index value (under Positioning) on the img element.

I have some h1s containing images which I want to hold their position, without interference ...

You seem to be having a bad Friday.
Not much to go on, but here are some guesses and some questions:

1. H4 in TOC text looks different in pdf -
- could your p.TOC4 style have different definitions for default and print mediums? You can bring the styles up alongside one another in like this to see ...

I was having similar issues:
https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29705

It led me to change the way that I do notes (and other blocks of material that could interact in strange ways with the sidebar in html5 help).

I used to have


<p class="Note_CAUTION_WARNING">Note: Do not ...

I was having similar issues:
https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29705

It led me to change the way that I do notes (and other blocks of material that could interact in strange ways with the sidebar in html5 help).

I used to have


<p class="Note_CAUTION_WARNING">Note: Do not ...

In discussion with MadCap support we have established that this is a bug (now on the list as #139108).

"The bug occurs when the topic is inside of a folder and has an Email hyperlink "Mail:to" and the review package has conditions applied to it.
...
A workaround would be to move the topic outside ...

Just a suggestion:

If I ever see an image displaced like that I would suspect that it is proving too big (maybe only by 1mm) for the page layout frame it is supposed to be in and popping up in the next one it can fit. That is something easily done if the paper size default was done in inches then ...

Anyone else experienced this?

I have one topic in many hundreds which opens OK in Flare and builds fine in my outputs, but when that topic is included in a review package it fails to load in contributor, like this:

[img] Error_opening_EC_Preface_Manager%20from%20Review%20Package.png [/img]

I see ...

Thank you - the magic has done the trick for my displaced divs too.

Woo-hoo! It works now.

Thank you Dave.
So pleased I asked here - I never would have spotted that in a month of Sundays.

I can't see a problem in the stylesheet

Here are the styles side by side for topnav and pdf I made the topnav version just a simple font colour and background, to see whether defining a border was causing an issue, but it seems that even that makes the span.button float left...

I have been successfully including a span class around text to make buttons appear in the flow of user instructions in a pdf
pdf_button_right.png

However, in topnav my button moves over to the left edge and overlays other text:
topnav_button_wrong.png

I am not aware of anything that should ...

Have you checked your Target?
Under the Advanced Tab (near the bottom of the page)
Tick the box labelled Use TOC depth for heading levels

Did you make your zip folder from inside Flare, by choosing Project > Zip Project?
If you did then I would expect you to recover everything needed for the project.
I have been doing it with every version of Flare from 6 onwards and when I unzip I get back:
Analyzer (if any), Content, Output and ...

I have always found you need to take great care in Flare with images in the page layout.
When something is called up as a background image in the page layout it only ever comes in at screen rather than print resolution, regardless of settings.

To get around this I use a header in the page layout ...

Personally, I'm not having any particular problems (touch wood) since the first patch came out. I'm on 13.2.6355.27565 from 26 May.

I know it works, because my docs do it (albeit just for my appendices, which I give page numbers A-n, B-n etc) , the question is can I remember how I set it up 7 years ago ...

Within the TOC for your target, in the Project folder, on the Printed Output tab you define Page Number as {chapnum}-{n ...

You have two ways of proceeding

(1) Keep everything in the one project.
Tip: Use folders in the content area to group like things. You might be able to have your conditions at the folder level, eg only use the topics in this folder for product A user manuals or only use the topics in this folder in ...

This thread didn't quite answer the question, but was enough of a memory jogger for me to bring to mind what I've had to do in the past, so I will add it here for anyone searching in the future.

In the target, turn off "downsample images above:" AND set compression to "Automatic" (not "JPEG ...

I have a lot of sympathy with the points being made about the downside of agile methodology, but I'd just like to add one point to the list of specific niggles cropping up to date.

The niggle which has been affecting my work since 2017 r2 arrived is to do with pdf preview. After previewing any ...

You get an editable view of the XML behind your TOC if you right click on your TOC in the Project Organizer and choose Open with > Internal Text Editor.

Was this all you were missing?

My table style which happily allows tables to break across pages as needed has the following elements set:

page-break-after: avoid;
page-break-before: avoid;
page-break-inside: auto;

which ensures the tables is with text that introduces it and with the figure caption that follows it.

Where my ...

I recognise your frustration, but I guarantee that time spent getting a solid page layout is well worth it, compared with the 'faff every time' that you will experience each time you rebuild a target if you are forced to stop when it is still not quite right.

Suggestions for some of the issues you ...