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Flare V4.1 Release Notes

 Article #: GEN1021F  Product: Flare   Version: 4.1

Summary:

A list of issues addressed in Flare 4.

Full Description:

The following is a list of customer-reported issues that addressed in Flare V4. Some issues are project specific. Other issues logged by the MadCap QA team are not listed in the table below.

Flare 4.1 SP1

Issue Resolution
Text turns invisible when in a span, variable, or conditional text element starts on a new line Fixed
Hyperlinks not being imported correctly from Word File. Fixed
Topic will not compile to Word (Object Reference Error) Fixed
Importing FrameMaker files with tables with out table styles causes "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error Fixed
Images used in Headers/Footers in PageLayouts with Chapter Breaks in the TOC "on" can grow to be huge in Word Outputs Fixed
Out of memory errors when building to PFDF Fixed

Flare 4.1

Issue Resolution
Performance improvements in WYSIWYG editor Fixed
Link directly to the X-Edit download page rather than just to madcapsoftware.com in X-Edit review email Fixed
No Email Account set in Active Directory will cause Sending a topic for Review to Fail Fixed
The review process breaks links to snippets, images and stylesheets if either the topic or the linked file is not saved to its respective root folder. Fixed
Failed to run command 'Delete'. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Fixed
Renaming a topic if the parent folder has an apostrophe in it, will cause Flare to crash Fixed
All files are lost when a user copy/pastes a target in Project Organizer Fixed
Footnote is oddly indented. The footnote in a standard P tag is being affected by the mc-auto-number-position property of the previous paragraph, p.ChaperTitle. Fixed
Snippet doesn't appear in footnote for MS Word output, but does appear in PDF Fixed
WebHelp Context Sensitive Help calls don't work with certain server configurations Fixed
Topics opened from Index Explorer don't work with the "Find in Content Explorer" button Fixed
Inserting a bookmark at the beginning of a topic causes autonumbering of chapters and sections to be underlined Fixed
Xrefs to headings with variables aren't being populated correctly in Word output Fixed
Out of Memory exception when building PDF Fixed
Double-Byte characters are not being imported from Frame. Fixed if importing from FrameMaker 8
Error generating Word output. Given key was not present in the dictionary Fixed
Hyphenation is always on in our Frame Output even when we have it set to never in Flare. Fixed
Renaming an open topic and Previewing it causes error. Fixed
Generated resized images do not appear in .CHMs when stylesheet links are patched for .CHM Printing Fixed
In a stylesheet, changing the display property to inherit from any style causes an Unhandled Exception. After clicking continue it's impossible to change back to the previous choice. Fixed
Tables in the Word ouput do not keep the same indentation when the ouput is generated by Flare 4. Fixed
Concept Link controls pulls from heading inside of the topic if the topic is a book in table of contents, but pulls from the ToC Label if it is a regular topic in ToC Fixed
Table borders not correctly drawn in Word output when table cells are merged Fixed
Throws System.OutOfMemory error during import from Word Fixed
Error opening DotNet Help Viewer from WPF application Fixed
We are removing empty lines in Word Import Fixed
Images in snippets do not show up when topic is sent for review Fixed
No-Repeat style for background image in a style is not showing up in PDF output Fixed
Error: "Index was outside the bounds of the array"during Frame import Fixed
FrameMaker Conditions aren't importing correctly Fixed
Background image for a div gets cut off when generating PDF Output Fixed
Embedded Flash files inside of a table have a default height and width setting of 0, causing them to not be rendered Fixed
Unhandled exception error when excluding condition in the target editor. The project was imported from FM Fixed
Compiler error when generating PDF output. Item with the same key already exists Fixed
FrameMaker conditions are not applied if it‟s the last line of text in a FM document and there isnt a carriage return. Fixed
Tables are going off the right of the page Fixed
Some hyperlinks do not work in a generated Word output Fixed
Renaming prompt for Undefined Styles is titled "Rename Index Keyword(s)" in Analyzer Fixed
Styles are not rendered in WYSIWYG correctly when: Image assigned to a BG and there is a top Margin Assigned to the H1 (or other element). Fixed
List of Figures proxy produces different margins for odd and even pages. Fixed
Skin is not appearing Correctly In IE 6.0 and IE 7.0 Does appear correct in FF 3.0 Fixed
The XML editor in V4 shows table columns misaligned Fixed
WebHelp AIR build fails with a non-XHTML (regular HTML) file - does not in fail regular WebHelp build. Fixed
Glossary term links do not open up to bookmarks Fixed
Object reference error when building Word output Fixed
Conditionalized columns in tables are affecting the color of fonts in Frame output Fixed
Support unstructured FrameMaker files in simplified Chinese Fixed if importing from FrameMaker 8
Page Layout is causing Pagination error on PDF output and a crash when opening a topic in WYSIWYG in print layout mode Fixed
Analyzer will not scan projects if there is an apostrophe in the file path Fixed
Auto-fit tables with long words do not respect margins in Word as it did in Flare v3.1 Fixed
Settings in Capture's "Flare Print" options dialog page are being ignored by Flare. Fixed
XHTML, PDF and XPS output index entries appear differently than Word/Frame output index entries. Page numbers are aligned correctly in XHTML, PDF and XPS. Fixed
soft returns are ignored during import from Frame Fixed
"key not present in dictionary" error when building Word output Fixed
footnotes are occasionally spilling over into the body Fixed
A chapter and sublinks do not show up in the PDF bookmarks section Fixed
A book with the sublinks does not show up in a PDF output as a book with sublinks Fixed
When re-sizing a Gif image, the output (or preview) shows a dotted line at the left side of the image Fixed
Dutch (Netherlands) with US number separators causes MS Word output to have a broken TOC Fixed
CHS calls using javascript do not work with IE (it works fine with any other web browser) Fixed
Bookmarks in front of paragraphs with autonumbers are turning into blue hyperlinks in Word output Fixed
Spell check and hyphenation does not work at all on Vista x64 Fixed
MS Word output XE Index fields are not constructed correctly Fixed
Re-Importing Frame files with Table styles overwrites the table style sheets even when elect NOT to have them over written. Fixed
Can't log off the computer when an application using the MadCap EmbeddedClient is running Fixed
Pagebreak controls for PDF output do not work consistently Fixed
Copying an HTML target corrupts relative paths in newly copied target Fixed
The links in the generated TOC in PDF output do not work for topics with question marks in the heading. Fixed
Error : "Can't find Adobe Distiller" when importing an FM file if Acrobat 9 is installed Fixed
Characters in header/footer do not keep the correct font in a Word & Frame output (using page layouts) Fixed
Pagebreakbefore = avoid doesn‟t work. Fixed
X-Ref to a H1 ending in a space causes sub-topics not to show up in PDF bookmarks-table of contents Fixed
Euro symbol appears in the PDF Bookmarks TOC when there is more than one space in the auto-number format Fixed

 

Attribution:

Last updated:

December 3, 2008

Author:

Neal Pozner

Contributions by:

Frank Novak, Rob Hollinger

 


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