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Curlyshell

UPDATE: We bought Camtasia and I've created dozens of videos, mostly tutorials under 8 minutes but also some short-short videos demonstrating very quick actions - what you'd expect of an animated GIF a few seconds long, except these are regular MP4s. I embed them using the <Object> tags and they are...

Curlyshell

I just had an issue with a private Vimeo file embedded in a Flare topic. Though the old videos are still playing, a video I just uploaded wouldn't display or play. Vimeo Support explained that they've stepped up their security (which I'll explain below), and new videos are required to comply. But so...

Curlyshell

Thank you! Here's the revised process for anyone who wants to copy it: Topic 1 is the one you keep. Topic 2 is the one that goes away. • In the TOC, remove Topic 2 and SAVE. • Make sure all the <head> info in Topic 2 is also present in Topic 1. For example, table stylesheets. Copy anything needed in...

Curlyshell

I'm doing some cleanup in my project, including merging topics that were automatically split apart when I imported from Word. Can someone please vet my process? I'm not sure that all steps are necessary—or sufficient. Perhaps this will be helpful to others as well. Page 1 is the one you keep. Page 2...

Curlyshell

Thanks, @Chocciemuffin, you rock!

It must have been reset during the upgrade.

Curlyshell

Has something changed in 2020 r2? Suddenly, if I hit Enter and click the Bullets button, I get tags inside the new bullet. It looks like this: <ul> <li> </li> </ul> Instead of like this: <ul> <li> </li> </ul> This is a HUGE pain! Now I can't open the style drop-down and choose the lis...

Curlyshell

You were probably just looking at a single keyframe.

On the far left, at the top of the timeline, there are three selections: Movie View, Frame View, and Action View. It seems to default to Frame View.

Best of luck!

Curlyshell

I'm considering using Mimic for video tutorials, but I'm finding it hard to learn how to do the absolute most basic editing. By editing I mean slice out the stuff that doesn't belong (where I say "um, um, um," click the wrong button, or endure a long wait time because WFH VPN). MadCap is a...

Curlyshell

Uhm...who are "they"? With a bit more context it might be easier to give advice.

"They" are MadCap's UI.

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Curlyshell

Thanks! Using the block works for the entire list (<ul>) but not for a subset of bullets (<li>). That sounds picky, but sometimes I don't want the entire list to be part of my micro content. But when I tried to move the tags around in the HTML so only the text I wanted was part of the micro content,...

Curlyshell

When I select text in a topic, the Micro Content button isn't always available.

It seems that paragraph () text lights up the Micro Content button, but list text keeps it grayed out. H3 is good; H7 not so much.

I submitted the bug, but does anyone have a workaround?

Curlyshell

FOLLOW-UP: MadCap says they use a third-party engine to produce the PDF, and the bug lives in the engine. So it's not getting fixed as far as I can tell.

Curlyshell

If you take a look in the Output>Temporary folder, you should be able to find a folder with the name of your PDF target, with htm files in it. Take a look at the source of one of those htm files (one that has the glossary footnotes), and look at what class the footnotes are using. That should give ...

Curlyshell

The link to the image is broken. I see your reference to the image starts with ../../../ I don't know what it should be, but my image reference is ../../ when it should be only ../ —I reported this.

But thanks for the tip. Who needs that stupid icon?

Curlyshell

Thanks—I was hoping to hear honest opinions.

I'm fixing the border issues by putting my own borders on the darned images. The rest of the problems I can get around. I look forward to someday when some of these bugs are fixed.

Appreciate all the input!

Curlyshell

Flare's PDF target seems so full of bugs, I'm considering creating a Word target instead and then exporting from PDF to Word. (I'm lucky to have Adobe Acrobat). Flare has trouble rendering styled text (see https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32013 ), and the TOC is funky (see ...

Curlyshell

This has been entered as Bug #154537.

Curlyshell

I put in a bug report for this. I also mentioned your snippets.

And I found something else: some of my buttons have a little drop-down arrow, so I added a transparent graphic to the text. But it's white in the PDF.

Curlyshell

I have a style to mimic the look of a button in our software by adding a background color and a rounded border. Some buttons contain MadCap variables. Normally, styling works fine with variables - such as in headers, or when bolding. Click Add/Edit <MadCap:variable n...

Curlyshell

Is there a way to create multiple indexes? In my case, I just want to pull a list of reports into its own index. But what if I wanted, say, an index for dishes and an index for ingredients? If this exists in the documentation—by all means, point me to it! The term "multiple indexes" in the...

Curlyshell

O the embarrassment! I discovered that my topics were connected to the wrong style sheet. A global search-and-replace inserted the style sheet I've been adjusting, in place of the former master style sheet that I copied last month in case these changes went bad. Even though I set the new styles.css ...

Curlyshell

I created a folder inside Resources called "Docs"—name as you please. To save steps, when the PDF opens after building, "Save As" to your version of "Docs." Otherwise the PDF lives in your Output folder, in the subfolder for that target, which is separate from the subfo...

Curlyshell

Thanks, @ajturnersurrey, for your response! It hasn't helped so far, but let me be clearer in explaining what I have. 1: Here's a sample of the code. You'll see there are no classes: <MadCap:dropDown> <MadCap:dropDownHead> <MadCap:dropDownHotspot>Current Open Windows</MadCap:dropDownHotspot> </MadCa...

Curlyshell

I'm using MadCap DropDowns in my online help. In the PDF version, there's a gray, 1-pixel bottom-border after each drop-down section. Meaning you see the header, the body, and then a gray horizontal line before the next section begins. How do I get rid of the horizontal line? I understand how to ope...

Curlyshell

The customer will not be able to change these variables/terms themselves in the built output - you can only change the variables BEFORE you build the target output. Thanks @DavidLee, in this stage of the development, I will produce just a few different targets using these variables to change key te...

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Re: Basic Editing

Alert: If You Embed "Private" Vimeo Videos...

Re: Confirm process for merging topics

Confirm process for merging topics

Re: Click Bullets, <p> remains

Click Bullets, <p> remains

Re: Mimic recorded just a few seconds

Basic Editing

Re: PDF output??

Re: Micro Content button grayed out

Micro Content button grayed out

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Re: Glossary terms as footnotes need to change the font size

Re: Glossary terms in online output have extra space

Re: Should I create a Word target INSTEAD of PDF?

Should I create a Word target INSTEAD of PDF?

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Re: Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Formatting Variables: Only Works Sometimes

Multiple Indexes?

Re: MadCap DropDowns Print Gray Bottom Border Despite Styles

Re: Saving and linking PDF

Re: MadCap DropDowns Print Gray Bottom Border Despite Styles

MadCap DropDowns Print Gray Bottom Border Despite Stylesheet

Re: Best practices using javascript & local help pages