Resize detached panels in framemaker_9 (beyond default limit)...

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May 30, 2013
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Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone knew how to increase the size of detached panels beyond what seems to be a default limit. Is there a .ini or .inf file somewhere that controls this? Or perhaps a hidden setting somewhere in Framemaker 9?

I have noticed that after a reinstall and transition to a new PC (same OS and versions of FM, same monitor sizes and resolution, different PC), the panel resizing is smaller than what was, by about 1/2. The panel used to be able to be resized to about 1/3 the size of the monitor... now it's about 1/4. This happens with all detached panels, but the main focus is for the "Structure View" panel.

Thanks in advance!

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Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

You would be venturing into hacking territory and have to use a Resource editor to modify the .DLLs. There is some information about this for other dialogues/panels (Table column width resizing) available on Klaus Daube's site. See: http://daube.ch/docu/fmaker54.html

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kmbaronAuthor

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FOUND IT!

I found out where the panel settings are held (in Windows 7):

%SYSTEMDRIVE%\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\9\WorkSpaces\Structured\Structured Authoring.cfws

if you open up that file, there is a line in there that handles the size of the detached panel:

data=#quot;5 10 #quot; minimum-size=#quot;400 80#quot; pref-unc-size=#quot;960 712#quot; pref-c-size=#quot;480 580#quot; maximum-size=#quot;1920 1160#quot;/>" host-cached-sizes="false"/>

the bolded part will set the maximum size of the detached panel in pixels. I noticed that the more panels/things you open in FM the more lines get populated in Structured Authoring.cfws.

I also assume that the first part of the line: "data=#quot;5 10" is the identifier for the panel. That part seems to not be replicated in any other part of the file. I'm not sure if these are univeral identifiers or are specific to my system upon creation.

How I found the specific line: I used this (http://www.cthing.com/Meazure.asp) tool to measure the panel maximum detached size in pixels and then looked in the file for corresponding numbers.

How I found the file: had the old OS drive that had FM installed that had a larger maximum size detached panel. Copied over the user specific files from the above directory to figure out if I was right. Then tried the files one by one until I hit the right one.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Excellent snooping! Thanks for providing feedback on this.

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