Document window has no buttons (FM version ≤ 8)

On the top right side of the document windows some buttons provide palettes of catalogues :

Unstructured interface		Structured interface
	Paragraph catalogue Character catalogue Graphic tools Equation tools Undo History (present only since FM 7.2 )		Element catalogue Entity catalogue Structure view Paragraph catalogue Character catalogue Graphic tools Equation tools Undo History (present only since FM 7.2 )

Some or all buttons not available

If you are missing the Paragraph and Character catalogue (or all) buttons this may be caused by the following reasons:

• The document is locked for View only:
  ➔ unlock/lock the document with ESC, F, l ,k (Escape, Capital F, lowercase L, lowercase K)
• FrameMaker 6 is in Structured Mode:
  ➔ Start FM 6 in unstructured mode
• Your document window is larger than the main window and hence cropped:
  ➔ use the outer scrolling bars to get access to the top right corner of the document window; maximise it to fit into the main window.
• Your monitor settings have changed and now not all of the main window (and the document window) is visible on the screen:
  ➔ use the outer scrolling bars to get access to the top right corner of the document window; maximise it to fit into the main window.

Source of information: FrameMaker mailing list US 2006-08.

Can not move/resize the FM application window

After switching the screen resolution the application window may be placed on the screen with inaccessible title bar. This may happen after a Safe Start of Windows which always uses the archaic 640 x 480 resolution.

To resolve the issue, remove the lines in maker.ini file in the ini-section [DialogLayout]. FM will then use default positions for the windows at the start, for example:
MakerWin=3, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 640, 400
Tools=600, 20
ConsoleWin=2, -32000, -32000, -1, -1, 0, 0, 640, 408

The relevant maker.ini file depends on the FrameMaker version

FrameMaker 6	FrameMaker 7.x
fm-installation-directory\maker.ini	userprofile\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\version\maker.ini

The location of the userprofile depends on the Windows version:

Windows version	Location of the user profile
Windows 2000, Windows XP	C:\Documents and Settings\username
Windows NT 4.0	C:\WinNT\Profiles\username
Windows 98 and Me if users; save individual preferences	C:\Windows\Profiles\username
Windows 98 and Me if all users share the same preferences	C:\Windows