Framemaker 8 Undo

[Fred Ridder]

Mulholland asked:

> I have recently moved from XP to Vista. When I save my frame files I
> always get a message stating "Cannot be undone. Undo history will be lost.
> OK to continue?" Apart from being annoying, especially when I save all files
> in a book at once. Is there any way of turning this off? I never got this
> message when I was using XP, is it a Vista feature?
> Thanks


It's not a Vista feature, it's an annoyance of FrameMaker 8.0/9.0 that came along with multiple undo. By default, FrameMaker warns you each and every time you perform an action that will clear the undo history buffer. Saving a file is such an action, and the message is warning you that the undo function will not be useful after you sav ethe file. It's a case of FrameMaker warnign you about something that other applications (like MS Word) simply do witout telling you. And perhaps Adobe has also over-compensated a bit because it does represent changed behavior from earlier versions.

But in any event, you can turn down the frequency of the warnigns or turn them off entirely via the "Show warnings while clearing history" item in in the File>Preferences>General dialog.

-Fred Ridder