RANT: FM 9.0 -

[Steve Johnson]

You should post this where it has a chance of doing some good, on the
Adobe forum. My understanding is that Frame 9 was developed entirely
overseas, safely away from anyone who might give them adverse but
useful feedback.

It's a big company thing to do: play up the window dressing without
fussing too much with anything else.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Venkat <venkat.partha at gmail.com> wrote:
> <This is a long mail>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have just migrated to FM 9.0 yesterday and IMHO, am finding the UI a pain
> to use.  Some of the issues that I am having are:
>
> 1. When using structured interface, using F8 to select a character style
> creates a new element of the same type at the point where the style has to
> be applied.
>
> 2. When using F8 to apply the Default Format in FM8, we just used to select
> F8 and then press the <Enter> key. This is not possible in FM9 as there is
> an entry "Not Applicable" as the first entry in all the lists.
>
> 3. Dialogs persist and do not behave as required. For example, take the
> "Anchored Frame" dialog. When I want to insert an image in my document, I
> use an element "Image". This by default inserts an anchored frame and the
> "Anchored Frame" dialog box is displayed. However, when I click the <New
> Frame> button in the dialog, the frame is inserted but the dialog box
> changes to the edit mode and retains the focus.
>
> My definition of the "Image" element inserts the "Image Title" element below
> the image when I press the <Enter> button again. This action is now gone for
> a toss as I have to close this persistent dialog to get focus back to the
> document. This has slowed me down considerably as I work mostly with the
> keyboard.
>
> My question is
>
> Can these behavior be changed. I do not want dialogs to be persistent. I do
> not want the "Not Applicable" element as the first in any selectable list.
>
> IMHO, the changes made in FM9 are just eye-candy and do not add anything to
> the whole experience of working with Frame Maker. In fact, I find it a bit
> of a chore to use it.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh Parthasarathy,
> Senior Technical Writer.
>
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