Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

Thu Apr 4 12:09:06 PDT 2013

To all who have posted to my response on "RE: Zoom Level Settings in FM 11":

First of all, thank you for your honest responses. Strong emotions show a strong relationship with FrameMaker. I may have typed too hastily when I included "... or in the next release." Please don't read too much into that. Product Management and engineering are well aware of this bug (they have received every posting), and I am sure that work is afoot to bring about resolution.

This thread has given Adobe exactly what we always seek: specific, constructive criticism or suggestions.

Just to clear the air on a couple of issues:

== When I worked for Frame Technology years ago, in the same building as the engineers, it took several hours longer for them to get back to me (the product manager) than our current developers do, who are in a distant time zone.

== FrameMaker did win the prestigious CODiE award this year as "Best Solution for Integrating Content into the Workflow".  (http://bit.ly/10zExMR) You may read highlights in the following blog: http://adobe.ly/WIdUWb  --- this is quite an honor because authoring tools are not given this honor each year.  Clearly, SIIA did not think that FrameMaker 11 was just a bug fix.

== Adobe has actually increased user feedback before products are released. Before I became an Adobe employee, I had early beta-tester hands-on with the current product, 11 months before release. (Under Frame Technology, pre-Adobe, beta-testing began 4-6 months before release, after all engineering decisions were final.) We beta-testers for FM11 were presented with several possible UIs for new features to choose from.

... So, not only does Adobe listen, the team is very proactive in attempting to get real world feedback on additional features before they are implemented. I periodically get unsolicited internal emails from members of the developer team asking me "what are the top complaints or feature requests this month." - That was seldom the case during my last year with Frame Technology.

FrameMaker is a very powerful, feature-rich product that addresses the needs of very diverse users in many different vertical markets. As a result, it is impossible to please all of us, regarding UI, and other issues.

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of VLM TechSubs
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:05 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

Maxwell,

First, I wish to express appreciation for your sharing this information on how to get by, given the partial demolition of a feature which, to my knowledge, has worked just fine since the release of FrameMaker version 1 ... that's version ONE ... OH ... EN ... EEEEE ... ONE.

Second, and particularly given much of the discussion here lately, that you would even THINK of putting this in a "next release" fills me with a sense of utter contempt and disgust. Have you not absorbed the many, MANY comments from many, MANY people, both here and elsewhere, complaining that releases 10 and 11 look much more like bug fix releases then true version upgrades, and that the UI "improvements" dumped upon us all in version 9 are not improvements at all, in many ways, and break down constantly? Or are those comments just not part of "we take your needs very seriously"?

[snip]

So ...

in the words of Capt. Picard, "Make it so." Evangelize INSIDE the company, do whatever it takes, just get it done.

Kind regards,

Elchanan
FrameMaker user since a VERY long time ago in a galaxy apparently far, far removed from anything going on at Adobe today
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Hoffmann
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:01 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: RE: Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

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.

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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

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