Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9 Welcome Screen)

[Diane Gaskill]

Hi Scott,

That makes sense.  But oddly, even when I saved a book in FM9, it opened
again in the default place.  Unfortunately, I cannot try it again because by
trial version just expired.  I have ordered a trial version of TCS2.  We'll
be upgrading at work eventually, especailly if they ahve fixed the graphics
bug (the one that prevents anchored graphics in tables from being converted
to RH) and I'll have to wait until it arrives.

What I'd really like to see is that FM9 would read the properties of the
files when it opens an FM8 file and use them, instead of requiring users to
reset and save them in FM9 to store the properties.

Thanks,
Diane
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp at leximation.com]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:33 AM
To: Diane Gaskill
Cc: Mike Wickham; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Book window position (was .. Re: Thumbs down: FrameMaker 9
Welcome Screen)


Actually it *is* FM that saves the book window position and size. This
info is stored in the book file itself, but isn't saved unless you
actually make a change to the book file which requires that it be
updated. Just moving and resizing the book won't require a save, but if
you move and/or resize, and also add/delete a file or change the
property of a book component .. then you can save the book and the next
time you open it it will appear that the new location.

...scott


Diane Gaskill wrote:
> 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
>
>
>