Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

Karen,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We do take your needs very seriously, and have marked this issue for resolution in either a patch or the next release of FrameMaker.

Although the values on line 95 of your maker.ini file will not currently display in the zoom pop-up menu (only the first 4 values will show), you may sequentially go through all of the listed zoom values by holding down control while you move your mouse wheel forward or backward.

Summary of tools you can use:

EDITS TO MAKER.INI FILE:
You can set the available zoom levels by editing line 95 of the maker.ini file:
Zoom=25, 50, 80, 100, 120, 140, 150, 160, 200, 400

Summary of useful keyboard shortcuts:
Esc z i     =             In one zoom setting
Esc z o   =             Out one zoom setting
Esc z p   =             Fit Page in window
Esc z w =              Fit window to page
Esc z f    =             Fit window to text frame
Esc zz     =             Zoom to 100 percent

Please note that you can also manually enter any percentage you wish over the value that is displayed in the zoom menu. That zoom value will be saved with the document.

We hope that these workarounds help you in short term while we look at fixing this issue. This bug has been brought to the attention of Adobe product marketing and engineering.

________________________________

Maxwell Hoffmann |  Product  Evangelist  |  Adobe  |  p. 503.336.5952  |  c. 503.805.3719  |  mhoffman at adobe.com<mailto:mhoffman at adobe.com>
http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann -  http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann  blogs.adobe.com/techcomm
Upcoming webinars http://adobe.ly/Pbz6xI    Recorded webinars: http://adobe.ly/Pbdp0J


On 21-Feb-13 10:08 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I just noticed that I cannot set custom zoom levels in FM 11. Why was the functionality of the old dialog box (or whatever it was called) removed? And no, I don't mean typing into the percentage/drop-down box--you know, the one that doesn't even look like an entry field until it is rolled over or clicked in. If I had to type the size every time I needed to change zoom level, I'd have the slowest workflow on the planet.

Seriously, are users expected to modify an .ini file just to set zoom-level settings? (I understand from Shmuel's tip on Rocky Mountain Training's blog that it's maker.ini line 95.) Most technical writers/editors are not programmers and are neither comfortable nor familiar with modifying application files this way. Seems dangerous for workgroups. Isn't that what user interfaces are for?

--Karen

_______________________________________________





Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>.



To unsubscribe send a blank email to

framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com>

or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shmuelw1%40gmail.com



Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com<mailto:listadmin at frameusers.com>. Visit

http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers-frameusers.com/attachments/20130403/3666c74b/attachment.htm>