Disappearing Palette Items

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

I have not had any menus disappear in the past 18 months, but while working with FM9 and FM10 while in the translation industry, I did determine one possible cause of problems. I worked on two screens at home, and had some saved/named workspaces that had catalogs or palette on my laptop screen, with main work areas and common menus on my "Cinerama" external monitor.

When I went on the road and used my laptop, I would usually find all floating palettes and menus would appear over the workspace. If I didn't revise and save the workspace, when I returned home to two screen, occasionally a pallet would be in "outer space" ... not visible.

The best cure that I found was to toggle the FrameMaker window from full screen to smaller, resizable; that always made everything reappear.

For what it's worth, I haven't had any workspace items disappear since I came to work for Adobe 19 months ago, when I was granted a new Lenovo laptop and Windows 7. Personally, (we all experience different things), I had more problems with my older, 2008 laptop running WinXP with all the latest security updates.

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:29 PM
To: 'Karen Robbins'; 'Framer's List'
Subject: RE: Disappearing Palette Items

Reading the manual might help here.

The workspace menu doesn't read "Authoring" unless you have chosen the Authoring workspace environment. That button "name" just shows what you current workspace environment is set to. Mine can be Craig's Custom, Authoring, Design, Review, Structured Authoring, or others.
Your palette items are disappearing because you are closing them. Docking them will retain them, but if you undock them and then close them, they have to reopened to reappear.

Reading the manual will help you understand how they work and what logic drives their functioning.

Craig

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]<mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]> On Behalf Of Karen Robbins
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:45 PM
To: Stuart Rogers; framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: Disappearing Palette Items

Actually, they disappear IN THE MIDDLE OF WORKING on a single document/book or multiple documents, not just on close! What a sad state of user interface affairs FM has fallen into. :-)
I now realize that the "workspace menu" everyone keeps referring to is actually the button that reads "Authoring"!
And while I can restore most of what I want to be in there, for some reason I can't get Object Properties back there, it only wants to exist as a free-standing window/part of the designer (which also won't move into the docked set). Sigh.
Thanks all,
Karen
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