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Robert, can you import a document with styles and then use those styles for
a new template?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> Flare templates are CSS with proprietary extensions. Nothing but Flare
> can use them.
>
> He needs a copy of Flare to do what he wants to do. Flare's integrated
> stylesheet editor will properly display the inheritance and stop him
> from screwing things up. Any web designer should have no trouble using
> that editor. The only other thing you'd have to show him is how to
> generate output for the relevant targets to check the results.
>
> help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/Styles/Editing_Styles.htm
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am researching inexpensive alternatives to MadCap Flare.
> >
> > I have a new collaborator in the office: our web designer. He wants to
> be able to able to edit the stylesheet/template and then hand it back to me.
> >
> > He wants a potential authoring system to run on Mac. He doesn't bother
> with Windows. He doesn't want to bother with MadCap Contributor. He doesn't
> understand Flare, and I can't explain it to him as I learned how to use it
> on the forums.
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