Frame 9: Problem zooming with Ctrl key and scroll wheel

Report · Apr 28, 2014

I'm using Frame 9 and a PC running Windows7. When I've got a book with several chapters open with their tabs showing across the Frame window and use the Ctrl key and the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out (a feature I love to use), quite often the chapter I'm viewing will be pulled out of the tabbed list and put over the top of all else in the book.

Does anyone else have this problem and is there a fix. I've searched and searched all the forums but find no one else mentioning this problem.

Thanks.

Report · Apr 28, 2014

It's probably a FM9 thing. FM9 was the first version using the OWL interface and there were a lot of UI "phunnies" happening. The ctrl+scroll zoom seems to work quite smoothly in FM12.

BTW, where did you find out about this functionality in FM? It's not documented in the Help files, AFAIK.

Report · Apr 28, 2014

Thanks for the reply Arnis. I'll have to talk to the powers that be and see if they'll pay for an upgrade for me and my other tech writer.

As far as the zooming, I'm not sure if I just tried it because it works in many instances in Windows. While in Firefox you can zoom in and out on pages and I'm sure I've done it in other programs.

Thanks again.

Jon

Report · Apr 28, 2014

FWIW, there is special promo on for FM12 upgrades from older versions; see: http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/framemaker/promotions.html

You can also consider the subscription option available now. In many organziaions this can be treated as an expense rather than a capital item, which might make it more palatable for some managers.

I've played around a bit more with the ctrl+scroll for the zoom and it steps through the pre-defined zoom settings in FM and works on all versions from FM7.2 on up. I haven't been able to get the tabbed file to be pulled off in my tests though. Is this something that is consistent/repeatable for you? Note, it's easy to inadvertently grab the tab for a document with the cursor and drag it off and on top. In that casee, just drag the window back to the tab bar and when you see the blue line appear, you can drop the document back onto the tab bar.

Report · Apr 29, 2014

I found out about it by accident and I love it to. I also heavily use the Shift+scroll wheel to quickly scroll up and down documents. Both still work fine for me, although Ctrl+scroll on the Structure View pod now makes the document window jump out (FM11). With a normal document focus, it still works OK.

Russ