One issue that came up during beta testing was the paragraph sort order. Some of you may have noticed that it changed in one of the FM8 patches. Many of us created templates that had style names in a particular order so that we could make easy use of keyboard shortcuts.
Prior to FM8p277, these two styles would sort in this order: 1_Heading1 1k_HeadingKit In FM8p277 and on, they sorted in this order (the underscore came at the *end* of the sort list, instead of at the beginning): 1k_HeadingKit 1_Heading1 In FM9, the catalog sort order can be controlled in two ways through a flag in maker.ini. The default behavior continues to what was introduced with 8.0 p277 onwards but the old behavior can be achieved by toggling this flag. This can be done by switching the setting using "SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On" in the maker.ini file. =================== You will notice that the F8 and F9 shortcuts DO NOT work the same as previous versions. If you press F8 or F9, and then a letter or number, you will go to the first style that starts with that character. In the following example, pressing "b" would take you to the b1_body style. However, previously I could press "b3" to select the b3_bullet1 style. Now you either have to press "b" three times, or press "b" and then the down arrow twice to get to the b3 style. b1_body1 b2_body2 b3_bullet1 b4_bullet2 c1_cellbody1 You may or may not find this inconvenient. In our case, this reduced functionality has basically rendered the keyboard shortcuts useless for many styles. To get to the c7 style, I'd have to press c seven times, or c once and the down arrow six times. I might as well use the mouse at that point. (If you find this intolerable, please let Adobe know. Now that the release is out, perhaps they can go back and address this problem and fix it in a patch release.) OTHERWISE, I find most of the improvements to be quite nice, and most Framers will be quite comfortable with the new features in a short time. -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@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.