Status bar

Learn how to use the status bar in Adobe FrameMaker.

In this topic

Introduction
Zoom in and out
Turn pages and set scrolling
Navigate through pages in a document

Introduction

The Adobe FrameMaker status bar provides navigational controls, pagination information, and zoom controls.

Figure 1. Navigational controls on the status bar

A Page flow and element breadcrumb (in Structured FrameMaker) or paragraph style (in unstructured) B First page C Previous D Go to page number E Next F Last page G Go to line number H Go to insertion point I Zoom controls

Zoom in and out

To magnify or decrease magnification, text, and objects, click the + (Increase Zoom) or – (Decrease Zoom) buttons on the status bar. FrameMaker zooms in or out on the area of the page containing the insertion point or selection. If the document doesn’t contain an insertion point or a selection, FrameMaker zooms in on the center of the page.
To display text and objects at a particular magnification, select a percentage from the Zoom drop-down list.
To display the entire page in the current window, select Fit Page In Window from the Zoom drop-down list.
To fit the page or text frame to the window, select Fit Window To Page or Fit Window To Text Frame from the Zoom drop-down list. If the view options are set to display facing pages, the window is resized to accommodate two pages side by side.
To change the available zoom settings, click Set from the Zoom drop-down list, select the percentage you want to change and enter the new percentage. Enter any percentage from 25% to 1600%. Click Set. To return to the default percentages, click Get Defaults.

Note: The default zoom level is set as per the resolution of your display device.

Turn pages and set scrolling

You can define how FrameMaker displays pages when you scroll up and down, left and right, or two pages at a time.

Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select the documents you want to affect.
Choose View > Options.
Choose one of the following options from the Page Scrolling drop-down list:
- To display pages from top to bottom (for example, page 2 below page 1), select Vertical.
- To display pages from left to right (for example, page 2 to the right of page 1), select Horizontal.
- To display pages two at a time, side by side, select Facing Pages.
- To display as many pages as will fit in the window from left to right, select Variable.
Click Set.

Navigate through pages in a document

You can navigate through a document window using controls in the status bar.

Do one of the following:

To go to the next page, click the Next Page button.
To go to the previous page, click the Previous Page button.
To go to the first page in the document, click the First Page button.
To go to the last page in the document, click the Last Page button.
To go to a specific page, click in the Page Number area and type in the page number you want to display.
To go to a specific line number, click in the Line Number area and type in the line number you want to display.
To go to the page containing the insertion point, click the Insertion Point button.
To move quickly through the pages, scroll vertically.

If the document you are paging through is part of an open book, FrameMaker sometimes displays an alert message prompting you to choose to open the next or previous document in the book. For example, if you click Previous Page on the first page of a document, clicking Yes in the alert message box opens the previous document in the book. The last page of that document appears.

Tip: In case of structured documents, select an element in the Structure View to display the corresponding page in the document window.