So, this blog page is basically a place where I keep handy shortcuts and tips for MadCap Flare. These are mostly one-liner, handy things to know and use as I develop my projects. Sorry for the current lack of organization, but I promise to add appropriate headers once I have enough here to make it worthwhile. Hope you find it useful, and if you have any special tips yourself, please feel free to submit them!
Continuing a Numbered List
I often have a nested description under a numbered list. In WORD and FRAMEMAKER, I simply apply a special style to the next paragraph to continue my numbered list after the nested description. How to do this in Flare?
- Place your cursor in the paragraph from which you want to continue numbering.
- Navigate to the Formatting Toolbar and click the List Actions Button.
- Select Continue Sequence.
Bullet Icons are huge in Flare 10 - Why?
All of a sudden, all my bullet icons (.png) format became huge when displayed in Flare. After a bit of searching in the Software Forums, I found the solution. Flare 10 automatically checks “Automatically resize low DPI Images“. URGH.
The fix is:
File > Options > General Tab > Uncheck Automatically Resize Low DPI Images
Create Character Styles in Flare?
I wanted to be able to map my Character Styles (bold, italicize, highlight, color, footnote) from Framemaker and Word with matching Character Styles in Flare. To do this:
- Open the CSS file that you are using.
- Select the span tag in the Stylesheet Editor.
- Click Add Class.
- Type a name for the Character Style (bold, italicize, highlight, color, footnote, etc ) and click OK.
- Format the Character Style with the features that you want.
- Save your changes.
- Test by applying these styles to sample content – select content, select the span class from the style drop-down list.
I found this tip in Scott DeLoach’s page, along with some other great tips you may find useful. See http://www.clickstart.net/presentations/flaretips_writersua10.pdf .