RE: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
Yves' suggestion is more useful to my needs that Wim's, since it can be done with a quick keypress rather than having to touch that obscene rodent thingie, although both will take you to the page where the cursor currently resides... if it is in text. I'm not really referring to moving from somewhere else in the document to the page where the cursor is though. It's more of an issue of being able to spot a thin sliver of a black cursor in black text, that is blinking very slowly, within a huge amount of screen real estate. The issue I have with both of the above solutions is that they require an action on my part. I want to be able to configure the color, size, and blink rate of the cursor, so I can tell at a glance where it is, not fumble around to find where it is or have to put the cursor somewhere just to know where it is. Dan Harding Technical Editorial Specialist University of Illinois Tax School 339 Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-0935 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Daube Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:23 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions On 12 Jul 2011 at 20:15, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Did you know that FrameMaker 10 has a command (button) to go to the cursor location: it's right next to the zoom buttons, bottom of the screen. On 13 Jul 2011 at 8:10, Yves Barbion wrote: C'mon now, Adobe, I'm wondering what the use of this Go to Insertion Point button is. Just press your left or right arrow key and hold down the SHIFT key while you're doing this, and you'll see your insertion point very clearly. Friends, the pont is: can I instantly spot the cursor location on a large screen to assure that my paste operation hits the right target? visual feedback is the basic requirement in a user interface (and not the design satisying only black-clothed people). Nowadays so much more mousing is required than in the good old FM 9 days, because many Windows features (e.g. title area of app window) are just ignored by the new interface. Focus is lost every now and then (e.g. after zooming), need to click into the doc window... Some very basic things hamper the otherwise not so bad new interface. Let's stop the rant now - it does not solve a single issue. ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dhard...@illinois.edu. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dharding%40illinois.edu Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
C'mon now, Adobe, I'm wondering what the use of this Go to Insertion Point button is. Just press your left or right arrow key and hold down the SHIFT key while you're doing this, and you'll see your insertion point very clearly. -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
On 12 Jul 2011 at 20:15, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Did you know that FrameMaker 10 has a command (button) to go to the cursor location: it's right next to the zoom buttons, bottom of the screen. On 13 Jul 2011 at 8:10, Yves Barbion wrote: C'mon now, Adobe, I'm wondering what the use of this Go to Insertion Point button is. Just press your left or right arrow key and hold down the SHIFT key while you're doing this, and you'll see your insertion point very clearly. Friends, the pont is: can I instantly spot the cursor location on a large screen to assure that my paste operation hits the right target? visual feedback is the basic requirement in a user interface (and not the design satisying only black-clothed people). Nowadays so much more mousing is required than in the good old FM 9 days, because many Windows features (e.g. title area of app window) are just ignored by the new interface. Focus is lost every now and then (e.g. after zooming), need to click into the doc window... Some very basic things hamper the otherwise not so bad new interface. Let's stop the rant now - it does not solve a single issue. ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
Did you know that FrameMaker 10 has a command (button) to go to the cursor location: it's right next to the zoom buttons, bottom of the screen. Kind regards, vriendelijke groet, Wim Hooghwinkel iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant, Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker NLDITA 2011 - june 1 2011 in Utrecht - DITA and topic based information development NLDITA Tools 2011 - April 1 2011 in Utrecht - Tools and best practices for Authoring, Managing and Publishing tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu www.nldita.nl FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
You probably should post this on the Wishlist page: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harding, Daniel B Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 9:16 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions I suspect I'm out of luck on these, but it doesn't hurt to ask: FrameMaker 10.0.1.1402 Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 1. When I am reconciling index entries, I keep all the individual book files open in separate undocked windows, which keeps them from opening in the primary workspace as I edit a zillion index markers. With 10-20 windows open, it becomes difficult to know which window is the currently active chapter (sometimes I need to open that window a bit larger to check context of a marker) because there is ZERO color difference between active and inactive windows. I have not found any way to make the active file window stand out from all the others. This appears to be a Framemaker issue rather than Windows, as all Aero effects are disabled on windows generated within FrameMaker 2. I need the i-frame text position indicator (cursor) within the document (not the hovering cursor that moves as you move your mouse) to be more prominent on the screen. I frequently lose track of where I am, and have to either hit up and down arrows to see where the text indicator is moving. Ideally there would be a way to set the color, thickness, and blink frequency for it, for no other reason than aiding accessibility. Thanks in advance. Dan Harding Technical Editorial Specialist University of Illinois Tax School 339 Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-0935 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
At 13:16 + 8/7/11, Harding, Daniel B wrote: 2. I need the i-frame text position indicator (cursor) within the document (not the hovering cursor that moves as you move your mouse) to be more prominent on the screen. I frequently lose track of where I am, and have to either hit up and down arrows to see where the text indicator is moving. Ideally there would be a way to set the color, thickness, and blink frequency for it, for no other reason than aiding accessibility. Taking a flier at this, for Mac OS there are built-ins to improve all sorts of bits of the interface to deal with various impairments (not that I'm suggesting you have an impairment: the I-beam has always been a bit hard to spot). However, I am sure, from memory, that before these were added to the OS, there were third-party hac... bolt-ones to achieve the same thing. Have you checked to see if there are any third-party tools to increase cursor size OS-wide for Windows? -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions
I suspect I’m out of luck on these, but it doesn’t hurt to ask: FrameMaker 10.0.1.1402 Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 1. When I am reconciling index entries, I keep all the individual snip / 2. I need the i-frame text position indicator (cursor) within the document (not the hovering cursor that moves as you move your mouse) to be more prominent on the screen. I frequently lose track of where I am, and have to either hit up and down arrows to see where the text indicator is moving. Ideally there would be a way to set the color, thickness, and blink frequency for it, for no other reason than aiding accessibility. Thanks in advance. Dan Harding Technical Editorial Specialist University of Illinois Tax School 339 Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-0935 I can't help you with your first question, but for the second, there is a maker.ini setting to tell FrameMaker to use the system cursor. In the Preferences section of your maker.ini file, make sure you have this line: UseSystemCursor=On Then you can set one of the large Windows cursor schemes and FrameMaker will use it. Oddly, it works for the mouse cursor, but not for the insertion point cursor. In Windows, it's possible to modify that cursor so it's wider I've done it on my system, although for the life of me I can't remember how it's done, but googling produced several hits, including this one: http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/wintips/92062104.asp Word picks up the setting just fine but not all other applications respect it. For example, FrameMaker ignores it as well as Lotus Notes, which I'm using to write this. Personally, I'd rate that as a bug and maybe you should raise the issue with Adobe. Regards Keith -- Keith Soltys Senior Technical Writer Architecture TMX Group (416) 947-4397 http://www.tmx.com/ -- NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALIT� Le pr�sent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destin�s uniquement � l'usage interne du destinataire pr�vu. Si vous avez re�u le pr�sent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser imm�diatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprim� de fa�on permanente de vos syst�mes; veuillez �galement vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu.___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
