You can access all commonly used commands from the following toolbars for use in structured or unstructured documents. You can display a toolbar from the View > Toolbars menu.
Graphics Toolbar
Provides shortcuts for graphics creation and edits.
Quick Access Bar
Provides commands for opening and saving documents, editing text, graphics, and tables.
Structured Access Bar
Provides commands for working with the structured document, such as add an XML document, open element catalog, edit attributes, and more.
Text Formatting
Provides text formatting commands, such as font styles.
Table Formatting
Provides table editing commands, such as add rows, columns, merge cells, and text alignment options for table cells.
Paragraph Formatting
Provides commands for formatting paragraphs, such as tab stops, text alignment, spacing, as well as the paragraph tag list.
Quick Element
Provides commands inserting and wrapping common structured document elements.
Object Alignment
Provides commands to change sequence, alignment, and orientation of objects.
Object Properties
Provides commands to group objects, change layer order, reshape, scale, and snap objects.
Track Text Edits
Provides commands for tracking, accepting, and rejecting text edits.
Direction Toolbar
Provides commands for working with bi-directional documents.
You also have keyboard shortcuts for all commands accessible through the toolbars and menus. For a list of all the keyboard shortcuts see Keyboard shortcuts.
FrameMaker gives you a predefined set of greyscale icons. These icons resize according to the resolution of your display device.
You can also add your own custom icons in FrameMaker. You need to update the toolbar’s .xml file which is available at two location - in FrameMaker install location, and in %appdata% folder. If you want to permanently save your custom toolbar, you must update the toolbar file located within the FrameMaker’s install location. Otherwise, you can also update the toolbar files available within the %appdata% folder. For example, if you want to update the Quick Element toolbar in WYSIWYG View, then you can update the quick_element.xml file located within the FrameMaker install location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2017\fminit\WorkSpaces\Structured\WYSIWYGView\toolbars
or, within the %appdata% folder:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\<version>\WorkSpaces\Structured\WYSIWYGView\toolbars
Similarly, you have to specify the base path of your icon image directory in the maker.ini file. Within the maker.ini file, use the ToolbarCustomImageDir property to specify the base path of your icon directory. Again, the maker.ini file is available within the FrameMaker install location and your %appdata% folder. If you specify the base path at both locations, then FrameMaker gives precedence to the location specified in the %appdata% maker.ini file.
Perform the following steps to customize toolbar icons in FrameMaker:
1)Create and store all the icon files on your system. You can store icons at any location including the %appdata% folder.
2)Specify the base path of the icon directory in the ToolbarCustomImageDir property in the maker.ini file. For example, if your icons are stored in the following folder structure:
Then, you need to specify the base path as C:\custom\icons\structured\toolbar.
3)Locate the .xml file of the toolbar relevant to your view and mode and open it for editing.
4)Locate the Action element relevant to the icon you want to customize. The Action element code looks like the following:
<ACTION command="CenterPara">
<images base="Feature-B/P_TextAlignCenter_Md"/>
5)Add the base name of the icon in the base attribute of images element.
note: In our example the icons are located within the sub-directories, therefore we have to specify the relative path.
6)Create at least 6 icon images for different monitor zoom levels. The supported zoom levels are 100%, 150%, and 200%. For each zoom level, you need to have 2 images - one for enabled mode and other for disabled mode.
For example, if your icon’s base name is xyz, then you can have 6 image files for the following possible combinations of zoom levels:
Zoom level |
Icon names |
Recommended icons size in pixels |
|
---|---|---|---|
Enabled |
Disabled |
||
100% |
xyz.png |
xyz_D.png |
18x18 |
150% |
xyz_3TO2X.png |
xyz_D_3TO2X.png |
27x27 |
200% |
xyz_2X.png |
xyz_D_2X.png |
36x36 |
Note that for disabled icons, _D must be specified in the filename as shown the above table. Similarly, for 150% zoom level, _3TO2X is specified in the filename and _2X is specified for icons to be used at 200% zoom level.