Interface view options

Display pages more quickly

Do the following:

Open the document by bypassing the update of imported graphics, cross-references, and text insets. (Opening a document without updating references makes a document open faster but can slow down the display of individual pages.)
Turn off the display of graphics by choosing View > Options, deselecting the Graphics option, and clicking Set.

Important: If you deselect the Graphics option and generate a PDF, the graphics do not appear in the PDF.
Display small text as gray bars by choosing File > Preferences > General, entering a point size in the Greek Screen Text Smaller box, and clicking Set. Whenever text in your document is in a point size smaller than the size you specified, it appears on the screen as a gray bar.

Change the preset display units

Some text boxes in dialog boxes require a unit of measurement (such as points or inches) for the value you enter. You can specify the default units for font size and line spacing (font size units) and for other measurements (display units). The default units of measurement appear after the values in the text boxes. If you enter a value without a unit of measurement, FrameMaker uses the default unit.

To change the preset units, make the appropriate window is active. Select View > Options. Select the values for Display Units and Font Units, and then click Set.
To enter different units in a box, make the appropriate window active. Enter an abbreviation for the unit along with the numeric value. Use cm for centimeters, mm for millimeters, " or in for inches, pc, pi, or pica for picas, pt or point for points, dd for didots, cc or cicero for ciceros, Q for Q units (refers to font size and line spacing for the Japanese language only).

FrameMaker converts the entry to the preset display units when you click a command button in the dialog box. For example, if your document display units are picas and you want to set a paragraph indent of 1 inch, enter 1" in the First Indent box. When you click Apply, the measurement changes to the number of picas that corresponds to 1 inch.

Change the spacing of ruler or grid intervals

Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select the documents you want to affect.
Select View > Options. Select a new setting from the Rulers menu or the Grid menu, and click Set.

Show or hide visual guides

You can show several of these visual guides in a document window:

Borders around text frames, graphic frames, and imported objects
Markers, paragraph returns, and other symbols in running text
Rulers along the top and left side of the window

You can also show a grid of horizontal and vertical lines for drawing, resizing, and aligning graphics. All visual guides are nonprinting, so you do not need to hide them when you print.

Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select the documents you want to affect.
Do the following:
- To show or hide borders, select View > Borders.
- To show or hide the text symbols, select View > Text Symbols.
- To show or hide the rulers, select View > Rulers.
- To show or hide grid lines, select View > Grid Lines.
- To show the element boundaries, select View > Element Boundaries or Element Boundaries (As Tags) in Structured FrameMaker. FrameMaker automatically toggles these two options.

Text symbols

Text symbol	Meaning
	End of paragraph
	End of flow and end of table cell
	Tab
	Anchored frame and table anchor
	Marker
	Forced return
	Manual equation alignment point
	Nonbreaking space
	Discretionary hyphen
	Suppress hyphenation

Display a subset of menu commands

You can display a subset of menu commands called quick menus. The quick menus do not have commands for formatting text, editing some aspects of graphics, and inserting some objects such as markers and variables.

If you do not see the full set of menu commands, the quick menus is probably displayed.

Note: If you’re using a structured document, your application developer can change the commands available in the complete menus.

To display quick menus, select View > Menus > Quick.
To restore the complete menu, select View > Menus > Complete.
To customize menus, add, move, or remove menus and commands as described in the online manual Customizing FrameMaker on the Adobe website www.adobe.com/go/lr_FrameMaker_support_en.

Display a high-contrast workspace

FrameMaker uses system colors to draw window backgrounds, text, and other graphics. Users who have trouble discerning colors or variations in contrast, or who have low visual acuity, can set high-contrast color schemes and custom text and background colors. This setting makes the information in the user interface easier to view.

Open the Windows Control Panel, double-click Accessibility Options, and select the Display tab.
Change contrast globally or change the color theme, as follows:
- To change the appearance of all editable interface elements at once, select the Use High Contrast option.
- To change the color theme, click Settings and select one of the High Contrast Appearance Scheme options.
Click Apply.

FrameMaker adjusts colors of such interface items as tool bars, title bars, menus, scroll bars, dialog boxes, panels, rulers, grids, and icons in window borders.

Note: FrameMaker does not adjust colors of all items. Some of these include the background color, the fill color of graphic object, and the fonts used in the title bar in some panels, such as Equations.

Use custom system cursors

You can use custom system cursors instead of the built-in FrameMaker cursors. For example, you can use your preferred system cursors for operations, such as text select or precision select, instead of the default FrameMaker cursors.

After you install FrameMaker, locate the maker.ini file in the FrameMaker9 folder.
Open the maker.ini file in a text editor.
Change the value of UseSystemCursor to On.
Save the maker.ini file and restart FrameMaker.

Customize the display of filenames

FrameMaker contains an option for displaying the filename before the pathname in the frame titles of document windows. The position at the end of a long pathname often obscures the filename in titles.

In the initialization file, maker.ini, set the value of the flag DisplayFileLeafFirstto On. This setting displays the filename in the title of the document or book window.

This setting also displays the filename in the dialog box listing all open files. By default the flag is set to Off, the line is marked as a comment, and the filename is displayed in the format pathname filename, as previously.

The flag does not affect how the root name of the folder or directory tree appears in individual filenames in the book window.