Fixing Search in Flare HTML Help
July 25th, 2008
If you import an HTML Help project from RoboHelp into Flare you might find that when you compile the .chm file the Search doesn't work. Every time you do a search you get "No topic found".
The fix to the problem is described here. It involves running a batch file that registers a file called itcc.dll. This is Microsoft HTML Help Workshop and, for some reason, you're going to need it to compile the .chm file successfully. Fortunately your end users won't need this DLL, you just need it for creating the .chm file.
Madcap supply the DLL and a batch file to register it. It might seem odd to supply a batch file to register a DLL when it's such an easy thing to do using regsvr32. The reason is that, on Vista with UAC, you won't be able to register it. You can, of course, turn off UAC - but you don't want to do that. What you need to do is right-click the batch file, which will be somewhere such as:
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare\Flare.app\Resources\Bin\RegisterItcc.bat
then choose Run As Administrator.

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