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Well, never mind, sort of. I found the .topicfooter class in the CSS and added this: background-image: url("../Images/Agari_footer_dots.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: bottom left; height: 80px; This worked, as far as giving me what I wanted, a background image in...

Can I use standard HTML/CSS to put a background image in a page footer? I tried this in the master page used for HTML5 output: <MadCap:pageFooter MadCap:conditions="Agari.Online Only"> <p class="topicfooter" style="background-image: url('../Images/Agari_footer_dots.png');&qu...

Have you tried the default fix? 1. Close your project in Flare. 2. Delete the Analyzer folder. 3. Re-open Flare. Flare then re-analyses the project and builds a new database in the Analyzer folder. I don't know why that database gets corrupted, but that's a pretty fool-proof way to regenerate it, a...

Turns out it's also a known bug. (105410)

Since updating to the latest version of Windows, including security patches, and, IIRC, a .NET update, I've been getting a lot of crashes--techically exceptions, because Flare doesn't go away--when I try to generate or publish a target. Not all the time, and a Flare restart seems to usually "fi...

I found a bug. I also found a workaround. This is what I reported to MadCap: A variable that can contain a variable is great. But I found what seems to be a bug. When you change the name of a variables file, if a variable contains a variable that was in that file, that variable's reference is not ch...

So with this a VM running a fresh install of Windows 10 I'm SOL?

Well, it took MadCap "only" a week to reply, but it appears I found not one, but two bugs, officially. #153295 and #153404, if anyone else wants to track these. I was a beta tester for the very first release of Flare so many, many years ago. Guess I still am, but for the latest release. Do...

I have found a bunch of issues with the Confluence import. I am filing a bug, but I wanted to post it here too so we can keep track of MadCap's (hopeful) fixes. This is what I wrote: I found a number of issues with your new Confluence import functionality. The attached is one of the pages I imported...

Ouch. Here's the thing. Software is supposed to be smart. The whole reason for software to exist is to do work for us, to make our work easier, better, more efficient. So when you're going to do something like this, figure out how to make is smart. For example, if the import encounters a word or phr...

This is kind of what I suspected. This feature is not good for, for example, using Confluence to write and get feedback on drafts or any content that is likely to be updated.

2019 R2 introduce importing from Confluence, which seemed exciting/intriguing, especially when I read the paragraph in the docs about it about linking to the Confluence source and getting changes made to that source re-imported into Flare. Confluence is, I think, a decent way to share draft content ...

I have this in my stylesheet (this is the PDF medium, the online medium is different): MadCap|xref { mc-format: '{i}{paratext} {pageref}{/i}'; } MadCap|xref.NoPageNum { mc-format: '{paratext}'; } MadCap|xref.ConceptPageNumber { mc-format: '{i}{paratext}{/i}'; } MadCap|xref.IndexPageNumber { mc-form...

dpcremin wrote:We are having the same problems with GitHub and managing source control via the connector in Flare and the "sequence contains more than one element" issue. I have GitHub Desktop installed. Should we explore using that tool and completely disabling binding in Flare?

I would. I did.

So I ended up doing a reinstall like the FA folks suggested. I installed only the Regular and Solid variants. And I updated my CSS thusly: @font-face { font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro Solid"; src: url(../Fonts/webfonts/Font_Awesome_5_Pro-Solid-900.otf); src: url(../Fonts/webfonts/fa-solid...

I'm doing some debugging of PDF output for a partner and their cross references are not the same as mine. I've not made any changes to the cross reference formats so in my HTML5 output my cross references turn into blue underlined links and in my PDF output my cross references turn into "see 't...

Neither adding weights to my @font-face definitions in my CSS: @font-face { font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro Solid"; src: url(../Fonts/webfonts/fa-solid-900.ttf); font-weight: 900; } @font-face { font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro Regular"; src: url(../Fonts/webfonts/fa-regular-400...

For the most part, I have gotten Font Awesome working correctly, and in both PDF and HTML5 outputs. However, when it comes to selecting the correct style/variant, I'm stuck--and not only in Flare. Here's how I insert an Font Awesome glyph in Flare: 1. In the app, I right-click on the FA glyph being ...

Don’t know what to say, then. I’ve used that technique for creating glossaries that are output to both PDF and HTML5, although I don’t do the popup thing in the latter. I have a different glossary, currently with 21 terms. 19 of those terms use their own topic. 2 of them have definitions in the tex...

Sorry in advance for being brief. I hope this is enough to get you going... Put each term and definition into its own topic. Then, when adding the term to the glossary file, select the Topic option instead of the Text option, as you have done per your screenshot. I started with that. The glossary t...

What I want to get from a glossary I can't figure out how to do, in part because of Flare's limitations. Am I going to have to resort to creating a Glossary topic manually? First, I currently create PD output, but sometime, hopefully in the near future, will also be producing HTML5 output. We also h...

One of the issues here is that Preview (Mac) does not display changes properly in Flare-generated PDFs. So for documents distributed for review with changes marked, reviewers must use Acrobat. And now they can't. Also, it seems that Flare's own Preview function in topics uses Acrobat for rendering, ...

Ah, I think I figured it out. The tab is of fixed width, controlled in the Size section of the Navigation tab. When the text gets too long to fit (I tried this by just adding incrementally more text and doing builds), it doesn't truncate or wrap, it just seems to fail. I can adjust the width of the ...

Following https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2019/Content/Flare/Language-Support/Changing-Text-Strings-HTML5-Skins.htm, I did this: Navigation_Tab.TOC.png in the UI Text tab of the skin editor. (The original content was just "Contents.") Then I generated the HTML5 output, I got this: bla...

To get any font working with Flare's PDFs, you need to have the TTF file locally installed in Windows on your PC. But I do. I have the Font Awesome (5.x) font files installed to Windows like they would normally be installed, and the .ttf files for Solid, Regular, and Light are all in C:\WINDOWS\FON...