Paragraph Designer Sticks in FM9

[Corcoran, Susan]

Hi Jen,

Yes, I've downloaded both FM9 updates.  The second one successfully
fixed the missing Building Blocks, but this paragraph designer bug
persists.

 
Susan Corcoran
 
Technical Writer III
Honeywell Scanning & Mobility

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jenny Greenleaf [mailto:jgreenleaf at mac.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:16 PM
> To: Corcoran, Susan
> Subject: Re: Paragraph Designer Sticks in FM9
> 
> I see this bug sometimes. I'm not sure what causes it. It 
> seems that there are several places where FM gets itself in 
> the wrong state.
> 
> I am also working with a template with variables, and when I 
> select them in the "pod," it doesn't always show the proper 
> information in the Add/Edit property sheet. It seems to be 
> one off (i.e., showing the information for the variable 
> following the one selected.) Clicking around seems to solve 
> the problem eventually.
> 
> I downloaded an update, but it wouldn't run on my system, and 
> I haven't gotten around to trying again. Has anyone 
> successfully updated FM9? It seems fairly buggy and has 
> crashed on me several times.
> 
> Jenny Greenleaf
> Greenleaf Agency, LLC
> 
> 
> On May 6, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Corcoran, Susan wrote:
> 
> > Hello fellow Framers,
> >
> > I've upgraded to FM9 recently and I've found an odd quirk.  
> I wonder 
> > if anyone else has seen the paragraph designer get stuck on 
> a single 
> > panel?
> > I can be working along just fine, and suddenly the 
> paragraph designer 
> > refuses to switch views between Basic, Default Font, 
> Pagination, etc.  
> > I can get the dropdown list of tags, but cannot change the 
> tag name.  
> > I can get rid of the panel or pod, but each time I bring up 
> paragraph 
> > designer, it's still stuck.  Occasionally I can fix this by closing 
> > and reopening the doc, but more often I have to restart 
> Framemaker.  I 
> > work with it in both structured and unstructured and it has 
> happened 
> > with both.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this or know what could cause it?
> > I'm running FM9 through Tech Comm Suite on Windows XP.
> >
> >
> > Susan Corcoran
> >
> > Technical Writer III
> > Honeywell Scanning & Mobility
> >
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