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1106design
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December 10, 2021
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InDesign Window too large

  • December 10, 2021
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When I open an InDesign document, the window fills my monitor from corner to corner so it's difficult to grab any edge to resize it, and it covers everything on my desktop so I'm resizing constantly. I seem to remember a feature in earlier versions, something like "remember window size." Has this been eliminated or is there a new preference for this useful feature? I'm running InDesign CC on an iMac with OS 10.15.7 Catalina. TIA.  

Correct answer rob day

Also, on OSX InDesign has Window>Application Frame. If you turn Application Frame on documents will open inside of the frame—ID will remember the position of the frame:

 

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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December 10, 2021

Also, on OSX InDesign has Window>Application Frame. If you turn Application Frame on documents will open inside of the frame—ID will remember the position of the frame:

 

    1106design
    1106designAuthor
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    December 10, 2021

    That did the trick, THANK YOU! 

      rob day
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      rob dayCommunity Expert
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      December 11, 2021

      Hi @1106design , if you don’t want to use the Application Frame, the window bounds can also be set via a script. This sets the window in the upper left corner with the width as 75% of the available screen width, and the height as 90% of the available screen height—you could assign this to a key command:

       

      var hScale = .75
var vScale = .9

var x = 50;
var y = 0;

var sw = $.screens[0].right;
var sh = $.screens[0].bottom;
var w = Math.round ((sw*hScale)-x);
var h = Math.round ((sh*vScale)-y);

app.activeWindow.bounds = [sh-(y+h), x, sh-y, x+w]

       

       

        Conrad_C
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        Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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        December 10, 2021

        If it’s so bad that you can’t see the title bar and the three buttons in the top left corner, then try this:

         

        Hold down the Option key as you drag any visible corner toward the center of the window, so that you bring the other three sides of the window inward. (Holding down Option resizes the window from the center.) You may have to do this in multiple passes. As you bring any of the other sides in, you will gain more control over the window size. When you can bring in the top left corner, you will once again have access to the three window control buttons.

         

        This is a standard macOS technique that should work with resizable windows in any app on your Mac, even Finder desktop windows.

         

         

          1106design
          1106designAuthor
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          December 10, 2021
          Thank you, I’ll give it a try.
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