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I think the XML editor can only pick up general items from the skin - not tried colours, the project I'm currently working on has a white backdrop!
If you preview a topic as the target, once it has a default skin set, it is mostly there (eg the component skins required by master page come into ...

In your Target, under the Skin tab, you set the default for general and component skins.
If you make that Target your primary, then that is how you will see things you are working on in the XML Editor.

To start you in the right direction: you will want to identify the page layout to use in the properties of items in your TOC.
On the printed output tab you choose a chapter or page layout break type and which page layout and page type within that layout to use from that point onwards. Do that again ...

Have you tried switching your "Connection Mode" from Passive (default) to Active. I experienced Flare timing out and failing because our IT had tweaked something that changed the mode. In an ftp program it will try one mode then try the other if the first didn't work but Flare won't wait that long ...

Have you gone to File menu > Options, picked Interface tab, selected Tool Strip and pressed OK?
Not sure if there is another way to change global application options.

It thinks you need the resources folder for any images if you have not chosen to embed images in the Word target file.

Maybe post a picture to show us where the bullets are aligning.

In the case I mentioned, where the list item text gets spread around the tags the bullet aligns with the bottom of the list item text, and it generally happens just for a few bullets.

Are your bullets image files that you have chosen ...

There are lots of things that could be doing this.
I suggest you first look in the Text Editor view at how your list tags are nested.
<ul>
<li>
<p>List item words here
</p>
</li>
<li>
.....
</ul>

I have sometimes found bullets out of line with text where something here has got out of line ...

The only three times I have experienced pdf file size issues in the past 8 years using Flare have been:
1. down to overly high resolution images included - the solution to which involved altering some of my preferred image rules;
2. to fit within ZenDesk file limits routinely required me to zip ...

I have a top nav target which is close to release, so I have been making just one or two tiny tweaks before rebuilding the target.
Doing this I have noticed that Flare is happy for you to alter a topic name in a tiny way, such as change capitalisation, remove a hyphen or a stray space from the topic ...

I couldn't actually see your images in the linked document but this issue comes up over and over again.
The thread below is pretty comprehensive about things that might go wrong:
https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=19404

My top tip is only let a graphics application (Madcap ...

Does it 'not work' on building the target, in a preview or xml viewer?
I do wonder if you are including the necessary path, or if you are just looking at the default text before the link has been checked.

I have made my own tiles based on that template, editing the Home.htm topic as you describe ...

Very interesting - thanks for posting.

Does anyone else get this?

There is a graphical element in my page layout bluedot.png. If I preview a topic as pdf output Flare takes hold of this image and doesn't let go.
I can't build my target, because I get "Build failed: The process cannot access the file 'P:\........\bluedot.png' because it ...

I can't offer a good fix, but have been exploring similar things myself.

Flare doesn't seem to be able to recognise an auto-number as a distinct item, even though it will display in situ, if it occurs within a dropdown. You will find the same issue if you try to cross-reference to the item.

The ...

Weird but true!

I searched for "near" in my output and got 0 matches.
Searched for "NEAR" and got 8 matches (none of them uppercase - so I guess that is sort of case-insensitive!)

Up to now I had only tested output for keywords relevant to our products - with satisfactory results.
I do have a ...

I am happy to go with company style (to a point).

I try to make online outputs look very close to website look-and-feel - same colours, fonts etc... ~100% on home page and >90% after that. (They did choose free to embed fonts, so I put these in a Fonts folder to call up with @font-face, and link ...

I use a pargraph style with autonumbers to do this. Interested to hear if there are any other ways to do it.

If you look at the list through the Analysis tab More Reports > Unused Items (Flare 2018) you can select as many items as you like and press the big red X. (Before 2018 you had to do it from Analyzer.)
If I were you I'd be very wary about doing this though - my projects always have some 'unused ...

In a similar small company set up, if I am looking for things to offer up to sales/marketing people as suggestions I make lots of use of images from pixabay.com and thenounproject.com

I have made the page return by removing the item from the TOC and adding it again, then rebuilding the target ...
but no idea why it was not properly connected last time, so unsure whether or when the glitch might return.

There is one page in my topnav output which is "not found" in my most recent build.

I have checked that it does really exist - the topic has been published to the right place rather than accidentally deleted.

I do have "Synchronize navigation elements with TOC entries" switched on, so it is ...

Two possibilities come to mind:
(a) are these very complex images? When I have used complex 600dpi visio images (more than 1MB each) Flare has occasionally opted out of rendering them, sometimes when building the pdf target, sometimes in xml editor too. Saving them as a 300dpi version in Capture and ...

You get a word count and a snippet count in Analyzer Statistics. I haven't played with Flare 2018 yet as it messes up my Capture images, but if the Analyzer functionality has indeed moved inside Flare you should be able to see that.

Do you have Lingo?
When you open your project in Lingo you get stats about the translation effort required under File > Compute Statistics. You get a word/segment/character count which not only tells you how many are in each of the files you are looking to translate, but also the adjusted number ...