SOS_Help with generating word output!

[AnjanaDevarakonda]

Hi,

This is a desperate call for help as i have to deliver a set of word docs in two days . All was well till now cos i was sharing PDF output with my clients. But now they want word outputs and Flare, honestly is a pain when it comes to generating word outputs.

I have a list of issues here.

1) My heading style (h1,h2,h3) use autonumbering. example, 1 Introduction, 1.1 overview, 2 Getting started, 2.2 bla bla and so on. It appears perfectly the way i want in the PDF, but the numbering completely disappears in the Word output. Attaching a screenshot for reference.

HeadingStyles_Nonumbering.png

2) Numbered and bulleted lists are not intended properly in the word output. Please see the screenshot

NumberedandBulletedList.png

Can you please help me or direct me to a blog or link that can help me?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Lydia]

Hi, do you use the same medium for both the PDF and the Word target?

[AnjanaDevarakonda]

Hi Lydia,

Yes, I do. I use print medium for both word and PDF outputs.

while i was working on generating word output with the right layout and styles, I made a copy of the existing stylesheet and pagelayout and made some tweaks to have finer a word output. What inturn Flare does is generate blank PDFs for me!

First, it shows up the error " Missing linked stylesheet file:///C:/Users/ad185219/workspace/project4/projects4.2/Content/Stylesheets/NCRStyles.css"

Then generates a completely blank PDF. Do you the possible reason for flare to generate blank PDFs?? I've read that flare messes up projects sometimes when you rename or move things around. Can i raise a support ticket for such a bug?

Also the heading 1 Style for some strange reason gets out of the page margin.

Heading1GoesoutoftheMargin.png

Please help me out!

[SteveS]

If you check the file path for the missing stylesheet can you see NCRStyles.css?

[Lydia]

Hi, I haven't experienced the missing linked stylesheet error myself. I sometimes make copies of stylesheets to try out changes. It never went wrong in this way.
As for your bug reporting question - if you have a maintenance contranct, I would contact support, so they can guide you through some troubleshooting and find out whether this is a bug.
Would it make sense to put the original stylesheet and page layout back to see if that still works, so at least you don't get blank output?

[AnjanaDevarakonda]

Hi Steve and Lydia,

Yes i agree, i've copied pagelayouts and stylesheets and moved things around myself sometime back. Never had any trouble. Wonder why now!
I've raised a support ticket and will be sharing my source files with the support team to fingure out the issue.
Thank you so much for your time.

Cheers,
Anjana