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Started by Klaus_Daube
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:51
FM9 show stoppers
Author: Klaus_Daube
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:51
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:51
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Various lists (๏ฟฝ format by F9, variable names by CTRL+0, ...) do no more behave as usual: Having the formats ln-list-narrow and lc-list-check and want to get ln, i must type l, then arrow-down. Typing ln applies the format n1-numbered-1st. Up to FM-8 we entered l, n, enter. The enter must now be avoided like hell, if the item is the only one in the list starting with that character. This was not a special feature of FM-8 and below, but is common behaviour in Windows. In an Open dialog, entering abc opens the list of files: first all beginning with a, then beginning with ab, then with abc - which is _very_ vonvenient. Backspace has become a nightmare on my 3MHz machine with 4GB of RAM. I can not correct input in the usual manner, because i have typed to many times until the program reacts! Do I need to switch off UNDO (which is not possible)? I have already switched off "show warnings while cleaning history", "Checkout HTTP...", "Upload HTTP..." in preferences. Klaus Daube, Z๏ฟฝrich, Switzerland
Re: FM9 show stoppers
Author: Klaus_Daube
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:05
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:05
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The underlying issue is this: FrameMaker users are keyboard-people, while CS (creative) users in the graphic area are mouse oriented. For graphic work this is also the case with me. But authoring text is typing and applying formats by short cuts. With the large screens FM9 now supports it is slowing down my work significantly to take the mouse for such operations, even with a tablet which gives more instant access to remote locations on a screen. BTW, backspacing in this text here on the very same machine is as fast as usual - so the issue is with FM9 only. The arrow keys have the same constraint: extending a selection by SHIFT+arrow right i-s-v-e-r-y-s-l-o-w!
Re: FM9 show stoppers
Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:48
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:48
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Klaus, This was heavily discussed during the beta. It is due to the fact that the new Adobe-standard OWL interface did not allow the development team to duplicate this FM functionality and they couldn't resolve (i.e. create a workaround) the issue in time. Please (everyone) keep complaining about this in as many places as possible, so hopefully it can get resolved in a point release.
Re: FM9 show stoppers
Author: Klaus_Daube
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:22
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:22
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Dear all - especially Adobe At first I must apologise for my harsh reaction on this issue. I seem to have a really crazy installation: While this was a real pain in the back when I was testing on Friday (2009-01-23) and again on Saturday on my laptop, the problem seems to have gone! Today (2009-01-29) display of typed characters is as fast as I type (but it feels not as smooth as in other applications, including FM8). Even the backspacing behaves and also the selection with the arrow keys. I have no idea, what the reason was. But I know that it happened only in FM-9 because at the same time I had FM-8 also open and there the effect did not appear. It also did not appear in the browser where I entered my forum text. On Friday/Saturday I did my tests with a document with many missing files (pictures). Today I repeated the tests: Document with missing files * standard open with prompt for the missing files => OK * opening silently => OK * opening heroically => OK Today I also tested with a new file (3 pages of text, some anchored frames) => OK
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