With Apologies to RJ - just can't quite feel the love or embrace this FM9 interface

[RJ Jacquez]

Hi Tammy, love the email subject, and no apologies needed :)

Not really sure why you are seeing inconsistencies, but one thing to remember is that regardless of whether the designers are shown/hidded or docked/undocked, the keyboard shortcuts always work and this is something I continue to use in FM9, namely:

Paragraph Designer = Ctrl+M
Character Designer = Ctrl+D
Table Designer = Ctrl + T

Also, sometimes when I need a bit more real estate, I'll even hide the entire UI (click the UI Visibility icon at top) and then use the keyboard shortcuts above to just bring up these pods.

Having said that, I'm happy to see that many people continue to feel more comfortable with the new FM9 UI as it is our goal at Adobe to standardize all of our apps on this same UI model as we move forward.

This includes the upcoming Captivate for Mac, for which I recently posted a sneak peek here in case you are interested in seeing: http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/11/a_sneak_peek_of_adobe_captivat.html 

Sincerely,

RJ Jácquez
Senior Product Evangelist
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 
Adobe eLearning Suite
http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez
Twitter: @rjacquez


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Spectrum Writing
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:39 AM
To: 'Spectrum Writing'; 'Free Framers'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: With Apologies to RJ - just can't quite feel the love or embrace this FM9 interface

Thanks to all of the onlist and offlist replies. What I found pretty
consistently is the inconsistency with which users out there have had
success. An approach that one user mentioned offlist did not work for
another offlist responder.  The common thread seems to be "I am supposed to
be able to get it to work this way and I can" or "I am supposed to get it to
work this way and I can't."

What Bernard mentioned in his onlist post: " Note that at times you will
apply one (like your own) and then still have to go and reset it as well. If
I figure out the logic behind when and why I'll let people know."

is the major issue for me. I have the catalogs open for paragraph and
character and the panels docked in the order that I want them docked, and
the catalogs just don't want to seem to stay open. I constantly have to
reset my workspace and why this is an issue, I don't know. Two users offlist
indicated that they had no problems with this and two indicated that they
did.

That is why I was referring to the all or nothing issue.  I can keep my
panels docked and iconized and open them when I need to get to the catalogs
or I can keep hoping that my workspace with the open catalogs eventually
decide to hang around.

I DO have dual monitors and they are both widescreen (to deal with all the
"caca" as Kelly stated - LOL!) but it's just more overhead than I like to
deal with, but I know that I don't have a choice.

Thanks all -  these lists are invaluable and they really provide insight and
support.

TGIF!

Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
info at spectrumwritingllc.com



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