Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

[Combs, Richard]

Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
 
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:35:44 -0700, Maxwell Hoffmann
> > <mhoffman at adobe.com> wrote:
> 
> >For instance, pre V9, index markers could only be viewed one
> >at a time in a modal marker dialogue that froze the screen.
> 
> That's just not true.  The marker dialog has always been
> modeless, not modal.  You could only view one at a time,
> and edit it, but I often left it up next to the main doc
> window, along with the modeless Find dialog with which
> you can step through the markers in your doc as you want.

Absolutely correct. And not just the Marker and Find dialogs -- the Conditional Text, Hypertext, and Equations dialogs were also modeless, along with the designers, catalogs, and Tools Palette. All could be left open on a second monitor or to one side of the FM window on a large-enough single monitor. 

The major problem with the stepping-through-markers workflow Jeremy mentions is the tiny text in the (non-resizable) Marker dialog box, which requires excellent vision to distinguish colons from semicolons. Fortunately, excellent indexing tool alternatives like IXGen and Index Tools Pro took care of that problem (and added a great deal of additional functionality as well). 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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