Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen

[Diane Gaskill]

That's strange, Mike.  I happen to like the book file about 2 inches wide
and just high enough to display the list of files, and placed in the upper
right corner of my screen.  Out of the way, but available. FM8 and previous
version have always opened the book file exactly where I save it. But as
Kelly says, it's Windows, not FM that is doing it.

Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wickham [mailto:info at mikewickham.com]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:42 AM
To: Diane Gaskill; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen


> I also do not like the fact that FM9 opens a book file on the left side of
> the FM window and its huge and docked.  The last thing I need is to have a
> book file take up 1/3 of the screen.  It's also VERY annoying to have to
> shrink it and move it every time I open it.

Clicking on the double arrow above the book file tab shrinks the file to a
button that's pretty small.

> This is a total waste of my
> time. The book file needs to return to the screen in whatever size and
> position it is saved in, just like FM8 and previous versions. They have
> made
> FM considerably less productive by forcing somebody's idea of "pretty" on
> everyone.

Interesting. No version of FrameMaker ever remembered the size of the book
file window for me. I always had to resize it larger. In FM9, the default
window is tall enough that I can see the whole tree in the book file without
resizing. I like it-- though I find the window to be wider than necessary.
It extends about an inch to the right of the rightmost icon in the header
bar.

Mike Wickham