How do I hide Framemaker 12 welcome screen?

[FrameMaker-dk]

I would like to hide the welcome/splash screen in Framemaker 12. In FrameMaker 11 there was an option for that in the maker.ini, but I can not find that option in maker.ini 12. Can anybody enlighten me on this?

regards

Bjørn

[Arnis Gubins]

Have you tried adding SplashScreen=Off in the [Preferences] section of the maker.ini?

[FrameMaker-dk]

Hi Arnis Gubins

Thanks for your reply. I do not seem to have such an entry in my maker.ini.

The preferences section looks like this for FrameMaker 12:

[Preferences]

ToolBarIconsColor=Colored

ToolBarIconsSize=Large

SessionRestoreInfoSerializedOnCrash=Off

LastUsedWorkSpaceInUnStructuredMode=Blank

AutoCollapseIconicPods=Off

AutoShowHiddenPods=On

HidePodsOnClose=Off

OpenDocsAsTabs=On

HideSingleTabsInDocs=On

PreventDocTabbingWhenDragging=Off

OpenCompDocsAsTabs=On

ToolTipMode=Normal

UIBrightness=1

UseGrayScaleAppIcon=Off

UnresolvedCrossReferencesDialog=On

OpeningOldReleaseDocDialog=Off

UnsupportedHotspotShapesDialog=On

UnavailableFontsDialog=On

DictionaryProviderMismatchDialog=On

UnsupportedFileFormatForModeDialog=On

UnsupportedFileFormatForViewDialog=On

ShowAlertsOnSessionRestore=Off

MenuSet=Complete

LastActiveView=WYSIWYG View

CrossPlatformFileNaming=Windows

Snap=Off

Gravity=Off

CheckoutOnOpen=On

UploadOnSave=On

best regards

Bjørn

[Bob_Niland]

> I do not seem to have such an entry in my maker.ini.

What Arnis is suggesting is that you add one, and see what happens.

It wouldn't be the first time that FM has had an inadequately documented ini setting that isn't present by default.

[yves.barbion · Accepted solution]

Hi Bjorn

You need to *add* the entry to your maker.ini. This works for me:

[Preferences]

;--------------------------- Misc preferences ------------------------------

; The period MUST be used for specifying the decimal point.

DontShowWelcomeScreen=on

AskExit=Off

[FrameMaker-dk]

Hi Yves

That worked! Thanks a lot!

regards

Bjørn