When you are writing content in Flare, you may decide that you want to re-use some content that you previously added to another topic.
We’ve discussed before how the best way to do this is to use a snippet, which essentially is a really long, formatted variable.
To do this in Flare, you create a new snippet, [...]
When I worked for a company that had localization requirements for the help system, one of my tasks was to go through the project and remove all the images. The reasoning behind this was that images are hard to localize, so we should just remove them from the project. This is especially difficult if you [...]
Here is a quick hint for proofreading your WebHelp output from Flare:
I find that when I create an an output, I find an error, then I go back into Flare and fix the error I found, then I rebuild my project, and then start the process over.
You don’t have to do it that way. Instead, [...]
Today Sarah asked a question in the Flare forums about reducing the file size of the PDF that Flare creates. I’ve also noticed that Flare’s output PDF file is quite large, around 10 MB for a 200-page document with images.
Sarah was wondering if there was a pre-build solution for this problem, and I don’t think [...]
When you first open a topic in your Flare project, you may notice that the layout appears funny. Specifically, I see this when the topic opens to the Web layout (because that is the last mode I was using when I edited the document), but Flare opens the topic displaying the Print media type.
The media [...]
I upgraded my laptop. Actually I bought a new one, and Flare is SCREAMING!
I set up some tests. I built a 200-page PDF directly from Flare 4 on three different machines. The first box is a WinXP box with 1GB RAM. The PDF took 28 minutes to build.
The second machine is my primary work laptop. [...]
There are several buttons in the Flare tool bar that I’ve ignored until now. Two I learned about yesterday in the MadCap forums, and another I discovered on my own. (I decided it was time to figure out what all the buttons do.)
Here are the buttons and their descriptions:
Locate in TOC. This button is [...]
