Entries in maker.ini and other configuration files (FM-3 … FM-17)

I started this page 2011, because a project of of Linda Sims did not materialise: an XML application providing information about all the maker.ini entries. Linda passed away on June 18, 2023 - so this page became a memory of her. Linda was a great supporter of FM-users in the Adobe forum.

Adobe provides only information for the current FM version. HTML: FM current version PDF: FM current version

Note: The term flavour in this document means the product interface: FrameMaker, Structured FrameMaker and XML Author. See note 39.

General remarks	Sections in maker.ini file		Other config files
Location of maker.ini Coding of maker.ini Comments Notes on specific entries Information sources	API clients Banner Text Content Management Systems   AEMRecentFavSettings   CMS Favourites   CMSPreferences   CQConnector   DitaExchange   Documentum   DropBox   SharePoint Dash patterns Dialog layout Dictionary providers   Hyphenation   Spelling   Thesaurus Directories DocCompare Export Files	Filters Fonts   Font Angle Aliases   Font Weight Alias   Unknown To Known FontMap   Windows To Frame Font Aliases Favorite Files Format List Frame FrameMaker Markers NetLibPaths Preferences Reginfo Recently Visited Files Spelling Options Structure View Thermometers Variables Preferences View Clients XSLT Clients	Authorview.ini Ditafm.ini Ditafm-output.ini HelpCfg.ini MathChar.cfg MathFlowPlugin.ini ModalDialogPosition.ini RestoreSession.txt PageSize.cfg PdfSize.ini XmlCodeView.ini XMLLangPreferences XMLLangExclusionList

General remarks

Location of maker.ini

Until FM 6 the file maker.ini was only present in the FM installation directory ($HOME).

Starting with FM-7 a copy of the file — only those elements which depend on the user settings — are in the user area. The effective path to this location depends on the OS:

Windows NT4	C:\WinNT\Profiles\Logon name\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\version
Windows 2000, XP	C:\Documents and Settings\Logon name\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\version
Windows Vista, W7	C:\Users\Logon name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\version

The personal maker.ini can specify a personal override value for any parameter that is controlled by the ini file. By default, it included things like default directories, user dictionaries, user preference items like automatic save, and default locations of dialog boxes all the kinds of things that any user is likely to set for their own personal preference.

Coding of maker.ini

Until FM-7 maker.ini was coded in US-ASCII. Special FM characters are escaped, for example to define the typographic quotes for 'smart quotes'.

Starting with FM-8 maker.ini is coded in UTF-8 to contain any Unicode character, although some items are still using the escape method.

Comments

• FM 3.0 was the first version for Windows (3.11). It was issued in the first quarter of 1992. See also FrameMaker history.
• FM 5.5 was the first one issued by Adobe, hence from then on many texts converted from "FrameMaker" to "Adobe FrameMaker". I leave out the Adobe here…
• The oldest ini files I could research are from FM version 6. You are welcome to provide information about older versions.
• The order of the ini file sections given here is the same as in the file.
• Column Value displays the default option as first entry. Normally other options are noted after a / . In some cases the optional entries are in successive lines.
• The column FM-version is split into 2 areas:
• new: With this FM version the entry was introduced. This may also be during an update of this version.
• obs.: With this FM version the entry became obsolete. It is no more present in the ini file. Whether existing entries are not used by the application any more can not be determined.
• Some entries were introduced to establish compatibility with previous versions. Then the default value keeps a newly introduced behaviour (e.g. SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=Off).
• Some entries became obsolete, because a certain OS version is no more more supported by FM (e.g. KeyboardMap)
• Although some file names are written with upper- and lower case characters (e.g. CustomUI.cfg), case is not relevant on Windows ini files.
• Entries marked [user only] are normally not present in the $HOME/maker.ini file, but in the user area. They may be documented in the Adobe file. Entries marked [internal] are not documented in the Adobe file.
• Adobe uses the term Flag for my table column Variable.

[FrameMaker]

This section was established with FM-3. It contained only the variables Version, Language and PCName. With FM-4 this section was replaced by [Frame].

[Frame]

Variable	Sample values	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Version	10p419	version, build	3.0	10
; AUTO_VERS_UPDATE CHANGE_VERSION end		used by installation/update	5.5	10
Language	USEnglish | UKEnglish | French | German | Japanese	UI language, default ¶ language,default spelling dictionary; depends on installation. In the installtion procedure (since about FM-12) the languages are listed differently: Deutsch, English (International), English (North America), Français and 日本語	3.0	---
PCNAME	UnKnown	The name of the PC as used in a network; in FM_5 replaced by User. See note 42	3.0	5.0
ProductInterface [user only]	FrameMaker | Structured FrameMaker	Start up mode; Indroduced with the combined FM + SGML	7	---

[Reginfo]

Since FM-11 this section is not used any more (values left empty).

Variable	Sample values	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
User	Klaus Daube	This user logged on at installation. See note 42	5.0	10
Company	Docu + Design Daube	Taken from the OS information	5.0	10
RegNum	00-5-01-01-3-00000 | 20-0-01-01-7-00BB8-7B12D6	Serial-number, | Registration number	5.0	8
ASN	1030-1418-8666-8813-1846-475	Application serial number. See note 26	7	8

[Preferences]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM version
			new	obs.
AlertOnPDFSave	On | Off	On: Alert before existing pdf is overwritten	12	---
AllowNewFileURL	On | Off (do not change setting)	Provides URL support for files referenced in an xml file (you can specify the file paths in additional formats). E.g. used for the file $HOME\HelpCfg.ini which is displyed in the online help window with Icon "FrameMaker Help Center".	10	---
AlwaysDownloadURL	Off |On	See note 18	8.0	---
API	On | Off	Enabling FDK client programs. These are listed in the [APIClients] section. With Off these programs are not started	4.0	---
ApiCoverage [user only]	API coverage file name	FM uses this file on shut down to store the coverage.	11	---
ApplyAsCondition	On | Off	On: Show/hide the following options in the manage attribute expressions dialog: • Ditaval as condition • Apply condition tag • Remove if previously applied Off: Disable this option	11	---
ApplyCondTillElementBoundaries	Off |On	On: Apply a conditional tag to the whole element, even if only a part of the element is selected (only applicable to structured documents)	11	---
ApplyDestCondOnPastedText [user only]	Off |On	On: to paste conditional content using the destination document's settings.	11	---
AskExit	On | Off	Prompt for quitting FM	4.0	---
AutoCollapseIconicPanels AutoCollapseIconicPods	Off |On	Pod: term used in FM-13, 14, 15 Panel: term used in FM-9 … 12 and ≥ 16 On: when a panel is in iconic mode, clicking the icon of the panels in FM opens the panel. When focus goes away from the panel it collapses to an icon. Preferences > Global > Interface	9	---
AutoExpandStructView [user only]	Off |On	On: Expand structure view to all levels on open of panel	12
AutoMnemoniseMenus	On | Off	Determines if mnemonic command shortcuts are shown on menus (e.g. ALT, v, b for menu View, Borders).	4.0	--
AutoPrettyPrintXML	On | Off	Controls the automatic prettifying prints (indentation) in XML view.	15
AutoSave	On 5/ Off 5	Period of auto saving [min] (how often FM creates a backup file for the active file, whether or not you have saved it). Preferences > Global > General	3.0	---
AutoScaleImageAlongWidth [User only]	Off | On	Controls the auto-scaling behavior of an image - be it in an anchored frame, table cell, or side head. Preferences > Global > Graphics	16	---
AutoScaleImageInTableCell	On | Off	On: When importing an image into a table cell, FM scales down the image, if the width of the image is wider than the table cells width. Off: When importing an image into a table cell, the image is never scaled and imported at 100%, even if it does not fit into the table cell. If the image does not fit, parts of the image become invisible. You can scale down the image manually to the required size.	15.0.4	16.0.2
AutoShowHiddenPanels AutoShowHiddenPods	On | Off	Pod: term used in FM-13, 14, 15 Panel: term used in FM-9 … 12 and ≥ 16 On: in the full screen mode of FM, the panels and toolbars appear in a thin dark-grey strip. Hovering over these panels and toolbars shows the panels and toolbars Preferences > Global > Interface	9	---
AutoSpellCheckCorrectionListSize	5	Number of correction proposals	10	---
BackupOnSave	On | Off	Backup file is automatically created when saving a file	3.0	---
BookZoomPercentage	100	Zoom percentage of the book window	14
ChangeStrings	HISTORY, list of at most 9 items - the last used is first.	History of Change strings is maintained across FM sessions. This is a comma separated list. To clear it you may delete the list	14
CharacterReferencesOnXMLExport	Off |On	Controls the enhancement of XML save for leading or trailing spaces and tab spaces. ON: leading or trailing spaces and tab spaces are preserved when you save a XML file.	12	---
Character Map		Files > Utilities > Character Map:		---
CharPalette_Key	Win+I	Key Combinations can be a combination of Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+{some key code}	9	---
ClipBoardForCharPalette	Off |On		9	---
ClipBoardForHexInput	On | Off		9	---
Encoding	2	0: UTF-8 | 1 = UTF-16 | 2 = UTF-32	9	---
HexInput_Key	Win+H	Key Combinations can be a combination of Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+{some key code}	9	---
RememberPage	0		9	---
RememberFont	Courier		9	---
Width	420		9	---
CheckoutOnOpen	On | Off	Checkout HTTP files on open (WebDav)	10	---
CMSCheckoutWithDepDefault [user only]	On | Off	Controls the checkout behavior of dependent files behavior in SharePoint and Documentum. On: When you checkout a file in SharePoint or Documentum, the dependent files are checked out along with the parent file, this corresponds to On value of the flag Off: Disable checkout of dependent files; only check out the parent file.	16	---
CMSZoomPercentage	100	Zoom percentage of the Repository Manager window.	14
ClearHistoryOnSave	Off |On	On: Undo history cleared on save (multiple undo was introduced with FM-9)	9	---
ClipboardFormatsPriorities	FILE, TEXT, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT, UNICODE TEXT	Inserting items from clipboard taken from other applications Edit > Paste Special bypasses these settings. Default sequence has change very often and settled now for FM-10. See note 01	3.0	---
ConfigurationFilePath	file path	Global file path to read XML attributes	11	---
ConfigWarnKbdOverride	Off |On	Issue warnings when interpreting the customisation files (*.cfg): Whether the same command gets mutltiple short cuts (overrides).	4.0	---
ConfigWarnKbdRedundant	Off |On	On: Issue warnings when interpreting the customisation files (*.cfg): Whether the same shortcut is defined multiple times (redundant)	4.0	---
ConvertGraphicsToEPS	Off |On	On: when saving a FM file as PDF, the TIFF, PSD, and JPEG images in the documents are converted to EPS.	9	---
CopyFileInfoOnImport [user only]	On | Off	Allow/disable import of file Info	11	---
CreateAllNamedDestinations	Off |On	Default value for PDF set up On: FM creates all the possible named destinations (all paragraphs and elements).	9	---
createHighQualityJpeginSVG	0 | 1	1: Flag is used to set SetPDFPortOptions, which decides whether the JPEG existing as graphic in a SVG image should be created in high quality or not.	15	---
CrossPlatformFileNaming	Windows | Windows 9x/2000/NT | MacIntosh | UNIX	Decide whether to alert you that the filenames you are saving may be illegal on one or more platforms. These problems are about prohibited characters or length of the filenames. UNIX is the most restrictive definition. Preferences > Global > General	5.0	---
CtrlAltIsAltGr	Off |On	Support the AltGr key on none-english keyboards. See note 05	7.1	---
DefaultColGapCm	1cm	Default properties of a new text frame.( Later these were integrated into the dialogue to set up text frames).	3.0	4.0
DefaultColGapInch	0.25in	Default properties of a new text frame.( Later these were integrated into the dialogue to set up text frames).	3.0	4.0
DefaultColorSpaceOverrideDistiller	RGB | CMYK	Default colour space for the Distiller - route in generating pdfs via Distiller.	15
DefaultGridCm	1.0cm	Values for spacing of the visible grid lines. See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultGridInch	0.5in	Values for spacing of the visible grid lines. See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultMarginCm	2.5cm, 2.5cm, 2.5cm, 2.5cm	Margins for custom sized document.( Later replaced by the template file custom)	3.0	4.0
DefaultMarginInch	1in, 1in, 1in, 1in	Margins for custom sized document.( Later replaced by the template file custom)	3.0	4.0
DefaultRulerCm	1.0cm	Spacing of tick marks on the vertical and horizontal rulers in new documents. See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultRulerInch	0.125in	Spacing of tick marks on the vertical and horizontal rulers in new documents. See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultSnapCm	0.5cm	Spacing of the snap grid lines (invisible). See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultSnapInch	0.125in	Spacing of the snap grid lines (invisible). See note 04	3.0	---
DefaultVectorFormatForXMLExport	MIF | CGM	Internal storage of Equations and Anchored Frames four round trip XML	11	---
DelayLoadClients	Off |On	ON loads all clients in idle loops after FM launches. Preferences > Global > Launch	12	---
DelayLoadLangProviders	On | Off	At startup time: tune performance Preferences > Global > Launch	12	---
DictionaryProviderMismatchDialog	On | Off	Report on open: document dictionary provider different to what is set for this language Preferences > Spelling	11	---
DirectOLESupportInXml	Off |On	On: xml file preserves OLE objects. Off: OLE objects are converted into a MIF reference. See note 24	11	---
DisableAutofitAfterZoom	Off |On	See note 15	5.5	---
DisplayFileLeafFirst	Off |On	Displays the filename in the title of the document or book window before the path name. See note 17	7.2	---
DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics	Off | On	Off: correct character widths On: correct placement of characters on lines (default since FM-8)	5.5	---
DitaMapShowFileReferences	Off |On	On: FM displays only the file references in the Ditamap view. FM does not display the metadata elements as they are not file reference nodes.	12	---
DitaMapShowNavtitle	Off |On	On: FrameMake displays the nav title element in the Ditamap view	11	---
DitamapZoomPercentage	100	Zoom percentage of the DITA map window	14
DocxImportWarning	On | Off	When importing Word documents of format docx a warning appears that data may be lost.	13	---
DoJustifyOnEOL	Off | On	On: Apply the Justify Alignment on lines ending with soft line break (Shift+Enter) Default changed to On in FM-17	16
DoNotExportInvalidXML	Off |On	Controls whether to save an invalid xml file.	10	---
DontCheckForUpdatedImagesAndMultimedia	Off | On	On: Avoid FM frequently checks whether the Image and Multimedia is updated. Really helpful while working on network files.	15	---
DontLoadStartupScripts	S1000dUtilities, S1000Dmenu	Do not load these from the "AutoLoad" scripts at start up	12	---
DontShowWelcomeScreen [user only]	Off |On	On: to hide the FM welcome screen FM-15: On completely hides the welcome screen	8.0	13
EnableAutoSpellCheck	On | Off	On: Spelling is checked on the fly	10	---
EnableHideChildWithParent	Off |On	On: FM hides child elements along with parent element	9.0.3	---
EnableInternalValidation [internal]	Off |On	During beta-test only	12	---
EnableOldSmartInsert	Off |On	Enable the Smart-insert function as performed in FM-11	12	---
EnableOleOptimization [user only]	On | Off	Optimize handling of OLE objects	10	---
EnablePerformanceChanges [internal]	Off |On	During beta-test only	11	---
EnableUndoInFDK	On | Off	On enables recording "undo" history in FDK APIs. Turn this option Off to improve performance of certain FDK clients.	7.2	---
EnforcePDFXCompliance	On | Off	Enforce compliance for PDF/X standards	15	16
EnhancedToolBar	On | Off	On: toolbar does not show distinct buttons - modern look. Off: toolbar shows distinct buttons - not all of exactly same size.	8.0	9.0
EPSLevelForPlacedPDF [user only]	1 | 2 | 3	By default, FM prints imported PDF (Placed PDF) files by converting them to Level 2 EPS files (with limited colour support). Level 3 includes proper rendering for spot colours, gradients and transparency.	6.0	---
ErrorFileName	consfile.txt	This file is created anew at each start of FM. In case of crash errors may be reported here. Hence save the file for later use.	4.0	---
ExecutablePlugins	EXE	Extension for executable plugins	6.0	---
FindStrings	HISTORY, list of at most 9 items - the last used is first.	History of Find strings is maintained across FM sessions. This is a comma separated list. To clear it you may delete the list	14
FirstRunOpenDoc	file path	First file to be opened in FM during the first launch after installation.	4.0	---
FlipObjectOnDirectionChange	On | Off	RTL-support: To flip and change the orientation of a graphical object (e.g. an image) when text direction changes.	13	---
FMLogMinLogLevel	FV_LogMsgTypeFileT_Info | FV_LogMsgTypeFileT_Trace | FV_LogMsgTypeFileT_Debug	Controls the logging levels for tracing and debugging errors or crashes at users' end.	16
FMImage	Off |On	Controls whether a FrameImage facet is saved with imported graphics by default.	3.0	---
FontCache [user only]	%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\xx\.cache_fonts	Cache of the fonts directory (fminit\fonts).This binary file holds information from the SBX files. On startup, FM reads the info from the cached file instead of opening and reading each file every time.	9	---
ForceAsianLayout	Off | On	Use the Asian Layout engine also for non-asien fonts Danger: If set, paragraphs with Right-To-Left direction are not laid out correctly. See FM Adobe forum.	14
ForceFileTypeChoices	Off |On	On: Force to bring up unknown file type dialog Off: FM displays the message "Cannot open the file."	5.0	---
FormViewEnabled	On | Off	Enable the Form View in the Simplified XML for DITA topics.	13	---
FormViewUsesSmartPaste	On | Off	On: Smart Paste function in Form View for content from external applications (MS Word, Excel, or a browser). Off: Content from external applications is pasted as plain text.	13	---
FrameMakerPDFAssistant	Acrobat Distiller	Present in FM-6, but outcommented; from FM-7.0 on present in the APIClients section, but also outcommented	6.0	> 10
GDIRasterizeKiloPixelLimit	8192	When getting the facet from PDF, limit the number of pixels we use in rasterizing.	5.5	---
GenerateBitmapWithGDI	Off | On	Enables the new GDI based image creation for HTML5. Earlier we were using a different technology for the same which made it slow but with this flag enabled we use the new workflow for HTML5/Save as XML image generation. [Amitoj Singh] Set to On if bit map creation during HTML5 generation stops at certain topics (just white rectangles as result).	15
GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK	Printing | Printing&Screen | Screen | None	Otpions for RGB printing only; the CMYK option always uses CMYK colors. See note 21. See also Adobe blog and Adobe Forum	5.5	---
Gravity	Off |On	Whether a new object is torn towards an existing object in close vicinity.	6.0	---
GreekSize	5	Below this font size just a gray bar is displayed for text	3.0	---
HidePanelsOnClose HidePodsOnClose	Off |On	Pod: term used in FM-13, 14, 15 Panel: term used in FM-9 … 12 and ≥ 16 On: Closing panels they are hidden but are still active in the memory and may affect FM performance Off: FM removes the panels when they are closed. To display them again, choose them from the FM menus. Preferences > Global > Interface	9	---
	Off |On	On: Closing panels they are hidden but are still active in the memory and may affect FM performance Off: FM removes the panels when they are closed. To display them again, choose them from the FM menus. Preferences > Global > Interface	12	15
HideSingleTabsInDocs	On | Off	On: when a floating document is solo, its single tab is not shown Preferences > Global > Interface	9	---
hpWarning [user only]	0 | 1 | 2	FM displays "history will be cleared, can't undo" alert. FM-9 allowed only Off/On. Since FM-10 these values are possible: 0: no dialogs for history clearing commands 1: dialogs appear for every history clearing operation 2: dialogs appear only once for each kind of operation Preferences > Global > Alerts	11	---
HyphenateNonRomanFonts	Off |On	Activates hyphenation for "Global fonts", such as Arial Unicode MS. In rare cases the pertaining document must be re-hyphenated. See note 30	10.0.1	---
ImageDefaultRunaroundStyle [user only]	Contour | BoundingBox | None	Set the initial (default) value for runaround style of an image when the image is inserted in a FM document	14	---
ImageImportAnchorAlign	left | center | right	Image import: default align type Preferences > Global > Graphics	16
ImageImportAnchorPosition	below | bottom | top | inline	Image import: default position of anchored frame (below current line, bottom of column, top of column, at insertion point) Preferences > Global > Graphics	16
ImageImportDPI	72 | 96 | 150 | 300	Image import: default dpi Preferences > Global > Graphics	16
ImportByReference	On | Off	On: all images are imported by reference. Off: all images are imported by copy.	15
InputMethodAutoActivation	On | Off	For typing Asian text with special device. See note 06	6.0	---
InsetFilePathForMissingPoster	MissingPoster.bmp	File to be used as a poster if the actual poster is not valid/readable	11	---
JapaneseImperialEra [user only]	DD MM YY Name | DD MM YY Name | DD MM YY Name	Japanese imperial era date strings. The most recent era should come first followed by older ones. The last item is the era after "Heisei" era.	13	---
LastActiveView	Author | WYSIWYG | XML	See note 22, note 39	11	---
LastActiveViewInXMLAuthorMode	Off |On	Display the last active view in FM XML Author mode. See note 39	12	14
LastUsedWorkSpaceInStructuredMode	Structured Authoring	Name of the Last Used WorkSpace in the structured mode. See also Adobe blog	9	---
LastUsedWorkSpaceInUnStructuredMode	Authoring	Name of the Last Used WorkSpace in the unstructured mode	9	---
LastUsedWorkSpaceInXMLAuthorMode	Authoring	Name of the Last Used WorkSpace in XML-Authoring mode. See note 39	12	14
LoadAdobeFontsOnStartup	On | Off	At startup time: tune performance Preferences > Global > Launch	12	---
LoadStartupScripts	On | Off	At startup time: tune performance Preferences > Global > Launch	12	---
LocDisplayCriteria	On | Off	For bottom Pod:On: FM indicates the location of the object such as (variable, marker, or conditional) . See note 31 Preferences > Pods > Location criteria	9	14
LocElemType1	Element1 | any ∈	If LocDisplayCriteria is On, this flag specifies the first column's title as element name in Pods.	9	14
LocElemType2	Element2 | any ∈	If LocDisplayCriteria is On, this flag specifies the second column's title as element name in Pods.	9	14
LocParaStyle1	Heading1 | any ¶	If LocDisplayCriteria is On, this flag specifies the first column's title as para style's name in Pods.	9	14
LocParaStyle2	Heading2 | any ¶	If LocDisplayCriteria is On, this flag specifies the second column's title as para style's name in Pods.	9	14
MaxMruListSize [user only]	5 | 1 … 20	Limit of recent files list | file history list.	9	---
MenuSet	Complete | Quick | Custom	Quick menus are a subset of complete menus. With the introduction of views (FM-11) there is one menu set per view.	4.0	---
MissingGraphicsDialog	On | Off	Preferences > Global > Alerts (not present in FM-11)	11	---
MonitorSize	Default | 14" | 15" | 17" | 19" | 21" | 22"	Preferences > Global > General Diagonal size of the monitor to adjust display of 100% zoom to actual size of objects	3.0	14
MultiMediaLinkTableRowLimit	100 | 1 … xxx	Maximum numberof entries in the hotspot table. See note 25.	11	---
NetLibTimeout	20	Time to wait when connecting to the webdav server [seconds].	9	---
NetworkLock	On | Off	Preferences > Global > General Causes FM to create a lock file (.lck) when you open a file. The lock file deters others from opening the same file and changing its contents while you have it open. They can, however, open a view-only copy of the file.	3.0	---
No3DInPDF	Off |On	Allow (Off) or disallow (On) U3D objects in PDF	8.0	---
NoFlashInPDF	Off |On	Allow (Off) or disallow (On) Flash in PDF Still there in FM-22 although life of Flash ends 2020-12	8.0	---
NoMultimediaInPDF	Off |On	On: FM does not embed multimedia in the PDF	11	---
NonWriteableIniAlert [user only]	Off |On	On: display an alert when FM cannot write/update the maker.ini file	11 ?	---
OpenCompDocsAsTabs	On | Off	Preferences > Global > Interface: Open composite documents ...	9	--
OpenDocOnDragDrop [user only]	On | Off	On: Open a document that is dragged on to the document window	12	---
OpenDocsAsTabs	On | Off	Preferences > Global > Interface: Display documents in tabbed windows	9	11
OpeningOldReleaseBookDialog	On | Off	On: Alert on Book Open with older version Preferences > Global > Alerts	15
OpeningOldReleaseDocDialog	On | Off	On: Alert on Document Open with older version Preferences > Global > Alerts	10	---
OverwriteFileOnSPSUpload	Off |On	On: Overwrite file when uploading with SPS	10	11
PadSize	6 | any numeric	Padding between an image and the anchored frame in pt.	15	---
PantoneFile [user only]	fminit\pantone.cvc	Path of the Pantone Color Library cvc file	11	---
PenWidths	0.5, 1.0, 3.0, 4.0 | 0.1mm, 0.2mm, 0.35mm, 0.5mm	Pen widths [pt] for graphic lines (valid: .015 … 360 pt) | My favourite settings. Used/set in Graphics Tool bar. see note 43	3.0	14
PluginCache [user only]	directory name	Cache of the plugin directory. This is a binary file.	9	---
PluginExtensions	DLL, DLX, EXE	List of plug-in file-extensions	6.0	8
PostXSLTValidationOnExport	Off |On	Whether or not to validate the file after “post close” XSLT is applied on XML	10	---
PrefBordersView	Off |On	On: iew the border of the text frame in all open documents. See note 37 for all the Pref…settings	14
PrefBreadCrumbsView	On | Off
PrefElementBoundaryAsBracket	Off |On	On: view element boundaries as square brackets around the content in all open documents	14
PrefElementBoundaryAsTag	Off |On	On: view the tag names as element boundaries around the content in all open documents	14
PreferredHTMLPublishingDPI	72 | 96 | 150 | 300	Default dpi for images to be used in HTML publishing	16
PrefGridView	Off |On	On: view the grid lines in all open documents	14
PrefGridViewValue	0	Specify the default grid line spacing	14
PrefHotspotIndicator	Off |On	On: view the hotspot indicators in all open documents	14
PrefLinkBoundary [user only]	Off |On	???	14
PrefRulersView	Off |On	On: view the vertical and horizontal rulers in all open documents	14
PrefRulersViewValue	0	Specify the default scaling value of the ruler	14
PrefSymbolView	Off |On	On: view text symbols like an end of paragraph, anchored frame, table or other formatting information in all open documents	14
PrefShowStructTextValue	On | Off	On: show the topic's content in the Structure View of the document.	14
PreventDocTabbingWhenDragging	Off |On	On: preven document tabbing while dragging Preferences > Global > Interface:	9	--
ProjectZoomPercentage	100	Zoom percentage of the project window	14
ProxyType	Choose Proxy Type | http | https	For the CMS Adobe Exerience Manager	14
QuerySessionRestoreOnLaunch	On | Off	If the last FM session ended in a crash and it can be restored, then on the next FM session launch ask if user wants to restore session.	12	---
RasterImageDPIforHTMLPublish [user only]	72 | 96 | 150 | 300	Preferences > Global > Graphics: Raster image dpi on export to HTML	16
RegularExpressionSyntax	Egrep | Grep | Perl	Flavour of regular expressions in the Find Dialogue	12	---
RememberMissingFontName	On | Off	Preferences > Global > General Determines whether the names of unavailable fonts are preserved so that the original fonts can reappear when the file is reopened on a computer where they are installed.	5.5	---
RemoveExtraWhiteSpacesOnXMLImport	On | Off	On: Remove spaces (for example) after inline images; Off: keeps spaces on xml import in place	10	---
RemoveGeneratedFacetsForTypes	GIF,JPG,PNG,SVG	See note 23	11	---
RepeatEnabled	On | Off	Enable | disable repeat last executed command from the command history.	10	---
RepeatTypingEnabled	On | Off	Enable | disable repeat typing operations from the command history.	10	---
ReplaceCacheSize	200	If you have memory issues when doing replace all/replace in a book, or during similar operations, reduce the replace cache size from the default 200.	8p277	---
RetainTempFileWhenNotExportingInvalidXML [user only]	No | Yes	Whether or not to retain the invalid xml in the temp directory while saving an XML file. The user may want to see the temp file for errors.	11	---
RomanRanges	0000-024F, 0400-052F, 0370-03FF, 2000-206F	The code points between the start and end (inclusive) are treated as roman code range (While rendering text, FM does not apply CJK rules to these ranges ).	8p277	---
SessionRestoreInfoSerializedOnCrash [user only]	Off |On	???	12	---
ShowAlertsOnSessionRestore	Off |On	Alerts while session is being restored Preferences > Global > Alerts	12	---
ShowErrors	On | Off	Log | stop logging errors in the file ErrorFileName (for OFF the console window is not displayed)	3.0	---
ShowFormattingBar	On | Off	Determine whether the Formatting bar appears when FM starts	4.0	9
ShowInAppMessages [user only]	On | Off	Display special "tips of interest" in the lower right corner.	13	---
ShowLearningResourcesOnStarterPage [user only]	On | Off	Display a small browser window with some information below the Welcome screen (which contains the main template options) Preferences > Global > General	11	14
ShowMenuPathInCommandMenu	On | Off	Specifies whether the full menu path should be displayed in the command search menu or not.	15
ShowNewWindowsDialogs	On | Off	Preferences > Global > Interface see note 40 Use Windows file browser for Import, Open, Save As	15
ShowQuickAccessBar	On H | Off | On V	Determine whether the QuickAccess bar appears when FM starts	4.0	9
ShowTabbedWelcomeScreen	On | Off	On: presents the Welcome screen on start and as tab. Off: preseneted only on start; switched On again by using menu item in Workspace drop down .	15
SiteDictionary	dict\site.dct	This was assumed in previous versions and could not be changed. Path relative to $HOME	15
Snap	On | Off	Graphics > Snap new or moved graphics are aligned to the snap grid	6.0	---
SplashScreen	On | Off	Splash screen at start up appears. This is the online-window below the welcome screen providing links to resources such as videos. ≥ FM-12 replaced by Welcome Screen	9	11
StickyPopupThreshold	500	Controls how long [ms] you must hold down the mouse button for pop-up menus, such as the Zoom menu, to open.	4.0	8
SuppressExtensions	fm, book [, Mif] | nothing	Controls which file extensions are suppressed when suppression is enabled. By default, only .fm and .book are suppressed. To disable all file extension suppression, you can either disable extension suppression in the shell or set this entry to nothing. Value mif was there only in FM-5	5.0	---
SuppressFontAlertOnOpen [user only]	Off |On	On: suppress the missing font dialog when you open a document Preferences > Global > General	11	---
SuppressLangAlertOnOpen [user only]	Off |On	On: suppress alerts when opening document about some of the languges used in the document aren't available with FM.	11	---
SuppressXMLParserWarnings	Off |On	On: Suppresses parser messages for duplicate elements specified in a DTD. FM uses the first instances	10	---
SuppressXMLWarnings	Off |On	On: Suppresses parser messages for duplicate elements specified in a DTD. FM uses the first instance found.	10	---
SwitchToAsianLayoutDialog	On | Off	For Asian languages the layout engine may be changed in the paragraph designer.	13	---
SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric	Off | On	Off: l1-para, lb2-bulleted-2nd, lbt-bulleted-tight, lb-bulleted (default in FM-9) On: l1-para, lb-bulleted, lb2-bulleted-2nd, lbt-bulleted-tight (same as until FM-8)	9	---
TabbarStatus	On | Off	Whether document windows are tabbed	8.0	9.0
TextCharacterEncoding	ANSI | OEM	ANSI: use the Windows-1252 Chacracter encoding OEM: use the ASCII character encoding (128 chars only)	3.0	5.5
ThorMessageShown	On | Off	This flag controls the display settings for the dialog box that appears on first launch of FM. After displaying the dialog box, this flag is turned off.	15
TiffTreatFirstUnassocAlphaChannelAsTransparency	On | Off	Controls the transparency channel for masking the TIFF graphics. The transparency channel in TIFF graphics is picked in the following way: ON: the first extra channel is picked as the transparency channel to mask the TIFF graphic. Any other extra channel is ignored. OFF: and the extra channel is the associated alpha, then it is picked as the transparency channel to mask the TIFF graphic. Any other extra channel is ignored.	15
ToolBarIconsColor [user only]	Colored | Monochrome	Specify the color option of toolbar icons. Preferences > Global > Interface (not in v14). See note 38	12, 13 ≥ 15	14
ToolBarIconsSize [user only]	Small | Large | Medium	Specify the size of toolbar icons (large: 26x26 pix; small: 18x18 pix). Starting with FM-14 icon sizes adapt automataically (from the 3 sizes) to the Windows zoom factor (support of high resolution screens). Preferences > Global > Interface	12	14
ToolTipMode	normal | fast | hidden	Appearance of tool tips. hidden switches off only the display of the filepath on the tab.	9	---
TranslateObjectOnDirectionChange	On | Off	RTL support: See note 28	13	---
UIBrightness [user only]	1 | 0	1: light; 0: dark Preferences > Global > Interface	9	---
UnavailableFontsDialog	On | Off	Report on open: document uses unavailable fonts Preferences > Global > Alerts	10	---
UndoHistorySize [user only]	32767 | 1 … 32767	Size of the Undo list. Value 0 has same effect as default.	11	---
UnresolvedCrossReferencesDialog	On | Off	Off: No alert on Document Open about unresolved crossreferences Preferences > Global > Alerts	10	---
UnsupportedFileFormatForModeDialog	On | Off	On: Suppress the alert that is displayed while opening a file format that is not supported in the current mode (modal = dialog, nonmodal = panel) Preferences > Global > Alerts	12	---
UnsupportedFileFormatForViewDialog	On | Off	Report on unsupported file format in view (Wysiwyg, XML, …) Preferences > Global > Alerts	12	---
UnsupportedHotspotShapesDialog	On | Off	On: if there are unsupported hotspot shapes in an fm file, FM displays the Unsupported Hotspot Shapes dialog when generating PDF	11	---
UploadOnSave	On | Off	Upload HTTP files on save (WebDav)	10	---
UseDisplayUnitInTemplate	Off |On	On: default display units are taken from document templates. Otherwise Off:the values are taken from maker.ini. See note 14	5.5	---
UseGrayScaleAppIcon	Off | On	Icon in top left corner of application window: IMHO the most nonsensical option in FM. Preferences > Global > Interface:	9	---
UsePDFResolution [user only]	300 → 1200	Controls the resolution of the PDF output. For PDF output > A4, some content may not fit on the page. To prevent the loss of content, add this flag and set its value to 300. → 300 creates PDF graphics of doubtable quality. when created with the PDF library. [Dieter Gust].	15	---
UsePostscript	On | Off	On: FM uses built-in methods of generating PostScript code, is faster and of higher quality. Off: use standard Windows methods. This makes FM print the preview image of EPS graphics instead of the PostScript image.	3.0	---
UseSystemCursor	Off | On	Off: Cursor images taken from FM (fmres.dll) On: Most cursor images taken from OS	5.5	---
VisualCaretMovement	On | Off	RTL support: see note 29	13	---
WMFPrintOption [user only]	0 | 2	Set this flag to 2 to convert wmf (16-bit version) to emf (32-bit version, device independent) during printing.	13	---
WordImportPresetFilePath	-	Defines the preset file path for Word import.	15
WrappedPlugins	DLX		6.0	8
Zoom	25, 50, 80, 100, 120, 140, 150, 160, 200, 400 | 28, 36, 50, 74, 90, 125, 200, 353, 500, 1000	Zoom factor settings (25 … 1600 are valid) | My favourite settings for A4 paper (353: 1 pix = 0.1mm)	5.5	---
ZoomScale [user only]	100	Structure window zoom value.	11	---

[CMSPreferences]

This section is new with FM-10 and is replaced with FM-11 by sections DctmPreferences and SpPrefrences. In FM-10 the following entries were present:
OverwriteObjectOnUpload=On; OverwriteObjectAsVersion=0; ShowHiddenObjects=Off; ShowPrivateCabinets=Off; DfsSdkPath=

[CQConnector]

With the FrameMaker connector for CQ, you can connect to Adobe CQ and use it as a Web Content Management System and use its Digital Asset Management (DAM) capabilities.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AutoCheckoutFileOnSave	0 | 1		15	---
AutoCheckoutFileOnOpen	0 | 1		15	---
AutoCheckoutShowPrompt	0 | 1		15	---
AutoCheckoutEnable	0 | 1		15	---
EnableDebugLogging	0 | 1		15	---
EnableUUID	0 | 1		16	---
CloseFileOnCheckin	1 | 0		13	---
OpenFileOnCheckout	1 | 0		13	---
ProxyType	Choose Proxy Type		14	---
ProxyServer	-		11	---
ProxyPort	-		11	---

[Directories]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AlwaysOnTopPaletteDir	not set | fminit\plugins\toolbox\palette	See note 07	4.0	---
Clipart	clipart	FM files with clipart made with FM-graphic tools	4.0	15
ColorLib	fminit\Color	Color library files. These files are read in at startup and appear in the Color Libraries pop-up menu in the Color Definitions dialog box.	5.5	---
FilterDllDir	filters	Folder that contains the filters installed on your system	3.0	---
FontDir	fminit\fonts	Adobe font files. Until FM-9 these were only Asian fonts.	5.5	---
FontDirCache	fminit\fonts\.cache	File with information about the fonts in FontDir. For example, the real font name in lieu of the font file name.	5.5	---
HelpDir	help	Files for the local Help system; See note 19	3.0	8
IndexSortDir	fminit\indexsort	Files for Asian index sorting	5.5	---
LanguageDir	dict	Language-specific files, such as hyphenation settings and language dictionaries for spell-checking	3.0	---
OnlineManuals	OnlineManuals | Documents	PDFs and Help files; Starting with FM-9 the name is Documents. Starting with FM-10 it only contains the subdirectory sgmlerrs which contains FM-documents listing SGML errors .	4.0	10
OpenDirOnStart	-	Specifies which folder should initially appear in the Open dialog box. On exit this setting is updated to the folder from which you last opened a document.	3.0	---
PaletteDir	fminit\maker	Location of template browsers. See note 07	4.0	---
PaletteDirStructure		See note 07	5.5	---
ReleaseNotes	relnotes	Release notes	4.0	6
Samples	samples	Document samples	4.0	---
SgmlDir	sgml	Location of SGML applications for Structured FM	7.1	---
StructureDir	structure	Path of the FM Structured directory, which contains SGML application, XML Applications, DITA applications and default read/write rule files.	7.1	---
TemplateDir	template | D:\_doc-std\Frame	Standard templates that come with the product, except the ones for custom documents and text files.	3.0	---
Templates	templates	Sample FM templates	4.0	---
ToolbarCustomImageDir	- | directory relative to $HOME	To be set for custom icon files residing in a subdirectory of $HOME. In this case the tool bar image refs must only use the base name.	14	---
UnicodeDir	fminit\unicode	Unicode files that are used to support Asian text in Acrobat bookmarks and other Acrobat features. Do not change!	5.5	---
XMLCookbook	XMLCookbook	The XML Cookbook highlights many of the important capabilities in Structured FrameMaker	7	8
XmlDir	xml	Location of XML applications for Structured FM	7.1	---

[Files]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AlternateResources	fminit\fmcustom.dll	Define dialog boxes, menus, error messages, and other resources. See note 08	4.0	---
AsciiTemplate	fminit\txttmplt	Template file for text files. There are additional files (txttmplt.chs, …cht and …kor) for Asian languages.	3.0	---
ClientCommandsDescFile	fminit\configui\ClientCmdDesc.cfg	Command description file to add corresponding description of the commands created by client. Used by Command Search (F7).	14
CompareDoc	fminit\compare	Template to generate the compare document	4.0	5.5
ConfigCommandsFile	fminit\configui\cmds.cfg	Commands common to all platforms.	4.0	---
ConfigCustomUIFile	minit\configui\CustomUI.cfg	Menu and command customisation. See note 09	4.0	---
ConfigMathFile	fminit\configui\mathcmds.cfg	Math commands (for the Equation Editor)	4.0	---
ConfigMathFileXMLAuthor	fminit\configui\XMLAuthor\WYSIWYGView\mathcmds.cfg	The Math commands configuration file for FM XML Author (for the Equation Editor). See note 39	12	14
ConfigMenuFile	fminit\maker\menus.cfg	Standard menus for the FM interface. Path has changed with FM-11	4.0	---
ConfigMenuFileStructure	fminit\fmstruct\menus.cfg	\menus.cfg Standard menus for the Structured FM interface. Path has changed with FM-11	5.5	---
ConfigMenuFileXMLAuthor	fminit\workspaces\XMLAuthor\WYSIWYGView\menus\menus.cfg	The standard menu configuration file for FM XML Author. See note 39	12	14
ConfigurationFilePath	-	Global file path to read XML attributes.	10	---
CustomDoc	fminit\custom	Template file for new custom documents.There are additional files (custom.chs, …cht and …kor) for Asian languages.	3.0	---
DialogResources	fminit\fmdlg.dll	Define dialog boxes, menus, error messages, and other resources. See note 08	4.0	---
EPSHeader	fminit\header.ps	PostScript header file. Do not change this setting	3.0	---
EquationDoc	fminit\configui\equation	Equations palette	3.0	---
FirstRunOpenDoc	-	Document to be opened at first run after installation. Entry is cleared after that.	4.0	---
FMFont	fminit\fm5font.ttf	Special text symbols like like ¶, ⟘, ⟙, ⟨, ⟩	3.0	---
FMSmallFont	fminit\fmsmall.fon	Font used in the Tools palette. Do not change this setting	3.0	---
InsetFilePathForMissingPoster	MissingPoster.bmp	Default image for multimedia insets	10	---
KeyboardMap	fminit\kbmap.cfg	Residuum of Windows 3.0	3.0	4.0
LayoutDoc	fminit\layout	With the introduction of masterpages this become obsolete	4.0	5.0
MarshallingDLL	afmfdk.dll	List of DLLs for marshalling	5.5	---
MathCharacterFile	fminit\mathchar.cfg	Defining the mathematical symbols	4.0	---
MSWinConfigCommandsFile	fminit\configui\wincmds.cfg | fminit\configui\Structured\WYSIWYGView\wincmds.cfg	Windows specific commands (path has changed with FM-12)	4.0	---
MSWinConfigCommandsFileXMLAuthor	fminit\configui\XMLAuthor\WYSIWYGView\wincmds.cfg | minit\configui\XMLAuthor\WYSIWYGView\wincmds.cfg	The Windows commands configuration file for FM. See note 39	12	14
PageSizesFile	fminit\pagesize.cfg	Defines the page sizes for the seven standard page sizes listed in the Page Sizes popup menu in the Custom Blank Paper and Page Size dialog boxes. For a new custom document, it also defines the default unit, column gap, and margin settings for each paper size. Have not found a method to add definitions	4.0	---
PDFPSHeader	fminit\headerPDF.ps	???	22 ?
Resources	fminit\fmres.dll	Define dialog boxes, menus, error messages, and other resources. See note 08	3.0	---
RunWrappedPlugin	fmrnclnt.exe	Wrapper for wrapped plugin	6.0	> 10
SiteDictionary	dict\site.dct | D:\_doc-std\Frame\ddd-site.dct	Site wide dictionary. See note 02 | My setting	3.0	10
StructTemplateBrowserDoc	fminit\maker\tmpltbrw_s	Template browser for structured documents, an FM palette	7.1	---
TemplateBrowserDoc	fminit\maker\tmpltbrw	Template browser for unstructured document, a FM palette	4.0	---
ThesaurusDoc	fminit\thesaurus	Thesaurus dialog box, an FM template	4.0	---
ToolBarIniFile	minit\configui\FMToolbr.ini	Defining the layout of the QuickAccess and formatting bars and the tool tips (which may be changed)	4.0	9
ToolBarXMLFile	fminit\toolbars\fmtoolbar.xml | fminit\workspaces\structured\toolbars\fmtoolbar.xml | fminit\workspaces\structured\WYSIWYGView\toolbars\fmtoolbar.xml	List of available tool bars for the current work space. This replaces the old ToolBarIniFile definition (path has changed with FM-11 and again in FM-12).. See note 16	9	---
ToolBarXMLFileXMLAuthor	fminit\workspaces\XMLAuthor\WYSIWYGView\toolbars\fmtoolbar.xml	The toolbar configuration file for FM. See note 39	12	14
TransformationFilePath	-	Default global transformations. Custom transformations can be loaded from XML files. See menu XSLT > Manage Transformations...	11	---
UserDictionary	D:\_DOC-STD\Frame\ddd_e.dct	User's or project related dictionary. See note 02	3.0	10
VerticalQuickAccessBar	fminit\vertqab	Vertical QuickAccess bar, a FM palette	4.0	9
WordImportPresetFilePath	-	???	22 ?
XMLControlHardReturn	Off | On	???

[RecentlyVisitedFiles]

Section	Number of entries	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
[RecentlyVisitedFiles]	5 (Since FM-15 = 2019 the maximum number is 25)	Starting with FM-7 this section is only used in maker.ini of the user area. In late updates of FM-15 additioanl properties were introduced. See note 41	4.0

[FavoriteFiles]

This section may fall out - in 15.0.0.393 (last beta) it is no more active

Section	Number of entries	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Taken from the list in Recently Visited Files - oldest ones do not fall out.	???	This obviously was an experiment, the function was not reliable at all	15.0.0	15.0.8

[Spelling]

All of these settings are the defaults for the spell checking dialogue, which changes the settings in maker.ini..

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AdobeLinguisticsPath	fminit\Linguistics\7.0	Directory path to the FM linguistics folder. Until FM-11 dictionaries (user, doc, site) where kept in %appdata%\Adobe\Linguistics (not mentioned in maker.ini)	12	---
FindExtraSpaces	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
FindRepeatedWords	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
FindSpaceAfter	On $([{\xC7\xD2\xD4\xDC\xE2\xE3	List of symbols. Watch the blank after On/Off Until FM-4 Off (with no list) was default. Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
	On $([{\u00ab\u201c\u2018\u2039\u201a\u201e		15
FindSpaceBefore	On !%),.:;?]}\xC8\xD3\xD5\xDD	List of symbols. Watch the blank after On/Off Until FM-4 Off (with no list) was default. Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	14
	On !%),.:;?]}\u00bb\u201d\u2019\u203a		15
FindStraightQuotes	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
FindTwoInARow	On !,.:;?	List of symbols. Watch the blank after On/Off Until FM-4 Off (with no list) was default. Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
FindUnusualCap	Off |On	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
FindUnusualHyphenation	Off |On	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
IgnoreAllCaps	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
IgnoreRomanNumerals	Off |On	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
IgnoreSingleCharWords	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
IgnoreWordsContaining	On . .	List of symbols. Watch the blank after On/Off Until FM-4 Off (with no list) was default. Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options
IgnoreWordsWithDigits	On | Off	Preferences > Spelling > Spelling Options	3.0	---
SiteDictModifiedTime		Last modified time of site dictionary.	???
SmartQuotes	\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3	left single, right single, left double, right double quote. See note 03	3.0	15
	UK English,‘’“”, German - Swiss (1901 Old rules),‹›«», Français,‘’«», Suomi,’’””, Svenska,’’””, German - Germany (1996 Reform),‚‘„“	As soon as the standard settings in Edit > Preferences > Spelling > Smart Quotes are changed, the changes are listed here in one line	16
UserDictModifiedTime		Last modified time of user dictionary.	???

[VariablesPreferences]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
EnableVariableHighlight	Off | On	Enable the highlighting of variables	17	---
VariableHighlightColor	Light Salmon | any FM system colour	Name of highlight colour	17	---

 

[StructureView]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AlwaysStayOnTop	On	Structure view window	7.1	---
AttrAllSym	- → ▼	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1 → 15	---
AttrErrSym	x	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1	---
AttrFont	Arial	Font property for List of attributes	7.1	---
AttrNoneSym	+→ ►	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1 → 15	---
AttrSepSym	=	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1	---
AttrSize	10	Font property for List of attributes	7.1	---
AttrSomeSym	+→ ►	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1 → 15	---
AttrValFont	Arial	Font property for List of attributes	7.1	---
AttrValidate	On | Off	Validate attribute	7.1	---
AttrValSize	10	Font property for List of attributes	7.1	---
CollapseSym	- → ▼	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1 → 15	---
ElemFont	Arial	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ElemFontJapanese	MS Gothic	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ElemFontKorean	Dotum	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ElemFontSimplifiedChinese	SimHei	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ElemFontTraditionalChinese	MingLiU	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ElemSize	10	Font property for List of elements in structure window	7.1	---
ExpandSym	+ → ►	Symbol in the display of attributes	7.1 → 15	---
KeywordFont	Arial	Structure window keyword font name	7.1	---
KeywordFontSize	10	Structure window keyword font size.	7.1	---
Origin	24, 24	Starting point from where structure tree would be shown in the structure window.	7.1	---
Position	360, 144, 376, 272	Coordinates of the structure window.	7.1	---
SnipFont	Arial	Font family of text snippet dispayed for text nodes in the structure window.	7.1	---
SnipPos	4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24	Starting point coordinates from where text snippet would be displayed in the struct window.	7.1	---
SnipSize	10	Font size of text snippet dispayed for text nodes in the struct window.	7.1	---
TagFont	Arial	Font family of text used in tags of structure window.	7.1	---
TagSize	10	Font size of text used in tags of struct window tags.	7.1	---

[AEMRecentFavSettings]

This section in the ini file contains settings for working with the Repository Manager. When you establish a connection with Adobe Experience Manager server, you can configure the number of entries to show in the Recent (R)/Favourites (F) list.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
MaxRecentlyVisitedFilesValue	5 … ???	Defines the maximum number of recently visited files to show in the recent/favorite list	15	---
MaxFavFoldersValue	5 … ???	Defines the maximum number of favorite folders to show in the recent/favorite list.	15	---

[CMSFavourites]

These settings where used in FM-10 and have been seaparated to [DctmPreferences] and [SpPreferences] with FM-11

[DctmPreferences]

These are related to the Content Management System (CMS) Documentum.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
DctmOverwriteObjectAsVersion	0 | 1 | 2	Only if DctmOverwriteObjectOnUpload is set to Off, this flag is relevant: 0: The file is uploaded as the same version. 1: The file is uploaded as major version. 2: The file is uploaded as minor version	10	---
DctmOverwriteObjectOnUpload	On | Off	On: when you upload a file, Documentum® overwrites the server copy. If this flag is set to Off: Documentum® creates versions and does not overwrite the copy	10	---
DfsSdkPath	file path	Specify a path for the DFS SDK	10	---
ShowHiddenObjects	Off |On	On: FM displays the hidden objects in the tree view	10	---
ShowPrivateCabinets	Off |On	On: FM displays the private cabinets in the tree view	10	---

[SpPreferences]

These are related to the Content Management System (CMS) SharePoint

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
???	list of custom attributes	List of custom attributes, attribute data types, and attribute types for SharePoint.	12	---
SpOverwriteObjectAsVersion	1 | 2	Only if SpOverwriteObjectOnUpload is set to Off, this flag is relevant.: 1: The file is uploaded as major version. 2: The file is uploaded as minor version	10	---
SpOverwriteObjectOnUpload	On | Off	On; when you upload a file, Sharepoint overwrites the server copy. If this flag is set to Off: Sharepoint creates versions and does not overwrite the copy	10	---

[DropBoxPreferences]

See Preferences > Global > DropBox.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
CreateFolderStructureInDropBox	Off |On	Allow user to define a folder structure to push all dependent files into Dropbox folder	12	---
DefaultDropBoxFolder	- | D:\_NET_INF\Dropbox\FM-stuff	Set the default Dropbox folder	12	---
DisableWarningWhileMovingFromDropBox	Off |On	Disable alerts that display when you delete files from disk, while moving to Dropbox folder 2016-01-15: Clarification requested from Adobe	12	---
RemoveFileWhileMovingFromDropBox	Off |On	Delete files from disk after the files are uploaded to Dropbox folder	12	---

[DitaExchangePreferences]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
DitaExchangeOverwriteObjectAsVersion	1	Relevant only if DitaExchangeOverwriteObjectOnUpload is set to Off 1: The file is uploaded as major version. 2: The file is uploaded as minor version.	13	---
DitaExchangeOverwriteObjectOnUpload	On | Off	On: when you upload a file, DITA Exchange overwrites the server copy. Off: Dita Exchange creates versions and does not overwrite the copy.	13	---

[SpellingProviderPreferences]

2016-01-15: Clarification requested from Adobe: Entry WinSoft is not documented.

Variable	Value (example according to the settings in menu Preferences)	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Hunspell	US English, Deutsch, Schweizerdeutsch, Français, Español, Catalá, Italiano, Português, Português do Brasil, Dansk, Norsk, Nynorsk, Svenska, Deutsch (neu), Schweizerdeutsch (neu), Nederlands (nieuw), Ελληνικά, русский, čeština, polski, magyar, Türkçe, slovenčina, Slovenščina, български, Hrvatski, eesti, latviešu, lietuvi, Română,	Languages assigened to this spelling dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
	Canada English		16
Proximity	UK English, Canadien Français, Nederlands, Suomi,	Languages assigened to this spelling dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
WinSoft	None	Languages assigened to this spelling dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	13	---
Duden	German - Germany (2006 Reform),German - Austria (2006 Reform),German - Germany (1996 Reform),German - Swiss (2006 Reform),German - Swiss (1996 Reform),	???	15	---
Duden: Konservativ	None		15	---
Duden: Presse	None		15	---
Duden: Tolerant	None		15	---

[HyphenationProviderPreferences]

2016-01-15: Clarification requested from Adobe: Entry WinSoft is not documented.

Variable	Value (example according to the settings in menu Preferences)	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Hunspell	US English, Deutsch, Schweizerdeutsch, Français, Canadien Français, Español, Catalá, Italiano, Português, Português do Brasil, Dansk, Nederlands, Norsk, Nynorsk, Suomi, Svenska, Deutsch (neu), Schweizerdeutsch (neu), Nederlands (nieuw), Ελληνικά, русский, čeština, polski, magyar, Türkçe, slovenčina, Slovenščina, български, Hrvatski, eesti, latviešu, lietuvi, Română	Languages assigened to this hyphenation dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
	Canada English		16
Proximity	UK English	Languages assigened to this hyphenation dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
WinSoft	עברית (Hebrew)	Languages assigened to this hyphenation dictionary provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	13	---
Duden All	German - Germany (2006 Reform),German - Austria (2006 Reform),German - Germany (1996 Reform),German - Swiss (2006 Reform),German - Swiss (1996 Reform)	???	15	---
Duden All but unaesthetic	None		15	---
Duden Aesthetic	None		15	---
Duden Preferred Aesthetic	None		15	---

[ThesaurusProviderPreferences]

2016-01-15: Clarification requested from Adobe: Entry Hunspell and WinSoft is not documented.

Variable	Value (example according to the settings in menu Preferences)	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Hunspell	None	Languages assigened to this thesaurs provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
Proximity	US English, UK English, Schweizerdeutsch, Français, Canadien Français, Español, Italiano, Dansk, Norsk, Svenska, Deutsch (neu), Schweizerdeutsch (neu), Nederlands (nieuw),	Languages assigened to this thesaurs provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	11	---
	Canada English		16
WinSoft	None	Languages assigened to this thesaurs provider Preferences > Spelling > Providers	13	---

[Dashpatterns]

Variable	Defaults	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
1	Dash, 8, 6	Only 8 patterns may be defined. Their names (Dash, Phantom, …) may be arbitrary using alphanumeric symbols only. The name must not contain blanks. The pattern starts with dash-lenght, followed gap-lenght etc. The length units is 1pt and depends for large line thicknesses also on the pattern. If a dash pattern setting contains an odd number of segment lengths, the last dash value is repeated for the final gap.	4.0	---
2	Hidden, 4		4.0	---
3	Longdash, 16, 10		4.0	---
4	Dot, 2, 4		4.0	---
5	Dash-Dot, 12, 6, 2, 6		4.0	---
6	Dash-Dot-Dot, 12, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6		4.0	---
7	Chain, 12, 6, 6, 6		4.0	---
8	Phantom, 20, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6		4.0	---

[DialogLayout]

• x-value is measured from the left, y-value from top of the screen [pixel]. 0, 20 is the default location for yet unused (unopened) windows.
• Many of these settings become obsolete with the introduction of workspaces (FM-14), which allows to dock certain palettes to the right. For example, the Console Window. If it is undocked, then it appears for example in the file ETB.cfws as this.
  

  <tab-pane mode="expanded" preferred-iconic-length="137" layout-mode="manual">
    <tab-group active-palette="34" is-closed="false">
      <palette id="34" is-closed="false" preferred-unconstrained-size="330 447" preferred-constrained-size="353 80" current-state="1" is-minimized="false" app-data="#lt;palette kit-data=#quot;3 63 #quot; minimum-size=#quot;320 80#quot; pref-unc-size=#quot;330 447#quot; pref-c-size=#quot;353 80#quot; maximum-size=#quot;1868 1176#quot;/>" host-cached-sizes="false"/>
    </tab-group>
  </tab-pane>

  The actual width/heights of the window is 330/447, but the location relativ to the screen (1220, 550) is noted nowhere.
• User defined palettes (Vertical Tool Bar, Equation palette, etc.) are not reflected here. Their location in the session seems to be kept with the information about the document windows.

Variable	Value (examples)	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
BookKit	0, 0		3.0	6.0
CCatalog	500, 220, 130, 180	Character catalogue: x-pos, y-pos, width, height	3.0	14
CFormat	0, 20		3.0	14
CondText	0, 20		3.0	14
ConsoleWin [user only]	2, -32000, -32000, -1, -1, 0, 0, 640, 408	See Note 27 Do not modify	4.0	(14)
ECatalog	500, 50, 130, 350		7.1	14
Equation [user only]	0, 20	Equations palette: x-pos, y-pos	3.0	---
Help	0, 20	Help format changed often: ; See note 19	3.0	8
Hypertext	0, 20		5.5	14
Layout	0 20		4.0	5.0
MakerWin [user only]	1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 5, 10, 1840, 1354	See Note 27	4.0	(14)
Markers	0, 20		3.0	14
Numbering	0, 20	Numbering dialogue (of what?): x-pos, y-pos	6.0	---
PCatalog	500, 40, 130, 180	Paragraph catalogue: x-pos, y-pos, width, height	3.0	14
PFormat	0, 20		3.0	14
RMViewLeftDocked [user only]	197, 1169	Width and height (pix) of the book window to the left of the tabbed document windows. The book window is not visible, if of these is 0.	12.0	---
RMViewUnDocked [user onl<]	183, 1175		12.0	---
Ruling	0, 20	Table Custom Ruling/Shading	3.0	14
Search	0, 20		3.0	14
Spell	0, 20		3.0	14
StructureWindowDoc	fminit\fmstruct\strwin	Template for structure window	7.1	14
Table	0, 20	Table catalogue: x-pos, y-pos	3.0	14
TemplateBrowser [user only]	900, 500	Template browser palette: x-pos, y-pos	4.0	---
Thesaurus [user only]	800, 400	Thesaurus palette: x-pos, y-pos	4.0	---
Tools	0, 20	Graphic tools palette	3.0	14
VQuickAccessBar	0, 20	Vertical tool bar position	4.0	8.0

x-value is measured from the left, y-value from top of the screen [pixel]. 0, 20 is the default location for yet unused (unopened) windows.

[NetLibPaths]

This section concerns the WebDAV connections

Variable	Sample values	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
name0	Examaple WebDAV server	Any name given by the user in File > ... > Browser URL	9
path0	https://www.webdavserver.com/Userce666c2/	path to the WebDAV server	9
name1, path1

[Markers]

Variable	Value (examples)	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
0	Header/Footer $1	Values 0 … 10 and 18 are predefined and can not be renamed. Starting with FM-5.5 values 0 … 25 were integrated into the Marker dialogue..	3.0	5.5
1	Header/Footer $2
2	Index
3	Comment
4	Subject
5	Author
6	Glossary
7	Equation
8	Hypertext
9	Cross-Ref
10	Conditional Text
11 … 25	Type 11 … Type 25	These marker types could be renamed. Starting with FM-5.5 custom markers were integrated into the marker dialogue	3.0	5.5
18	GlossaryTerm	Predefined marker type	12	---

[ViewClients]

Definition syntax: [internal,plugin], [structured,unstructured,all ], description, [dllpath,null], iconName
To disable a view in FM, use a semicolon to comment out the relevant line.

Variable (examples only)	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Author View (See note 39)	internal,structured,author view,null,PL_SwitchToAV	Meaning of parameters: whether the view is an internal one or plug-in based view is relevant to Structured or Unstructured FM (All = both). The third entry specifies the name of the view. The fourth entry specifies the DLL file for the plug-in. If the view is an internal one,this entry is null. The fifth and the last entry is the name of the image file for the icon used for the view in FM.	11	14
WYSIWYG View	internal,all,wysiwyg view,null,PL_SwitchToWYSIWYG		11	---
XML View	plugin,structured,xml view,FMXmlView.dll,PL_SwitchToXmlView		11	16
	plugin,all,xml view,FMXmlView.dll,PL_SwitchToXmlView		16

[XSLTProcessors]

Definition syntax: jar path, TransformerFactory class [, default]
- all dependent jars should be in same dir
- if default is not specified - 1st processor becomes default

For FM-12 the default was changed to XALAN.

Variable (examples only)	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
SAXON	fminit\XSLTProcessors\saxon\saxonhe9-3-0-5j\saxon9he.jar, net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl, Default (SaxonEE9-8-0-7J since FM version 15)	FM uses this path to locate the SAXON processor for XSLT processing. Suffix the path with, Default to make the SAXON processor the default processor.	11	---
XALAN	fminit\XSLTProcessors\xalan\xalan-j_2_7_1-bin\xalan.jar, org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl (xalan-j_2_7_2-bin since FM version 15)	FM uses this path to locate the XALAN processor for XSLT processing. Suffix the path with, Default to make the XALAN processor the default processor.	11	---

[APIClients]

Both plug-ins and filters are listed in tis section. See note 35 and note 20..
The table here lists only few (recently added) API clients.

Plugin / filter name	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Adobe CQ	Standard, Adobe CQ, FMCQ-Client.dll, all	Adobe Web Content Management	12	---
Asian Character Count	DocReport,Count the number of Asian characters in the document., fminit\jwordcnt.dll,all		≤15
BookComponentMIFWash	Standard, MIF Wash, fminit\BookComponentMIFWash.dll, all		16
BookErrorLog	Standard, Report errors during book generation, fminit\bookerrlog.dll,all		≤15
Book Word Count	Standard, Count the number of words in the book, fminit\BookWordCount.dll, all		16
CGM Export IsoDraw CGM Import IsoDraw			≤14	15
ClickPrint	Standard, Print Online Manuals, fminit\clickprt.dll, all		4.0	---
DitamapErrorLog	Standard, Report errors during ditamap generation, fminit\ditamaperrlog.dll, all		≤15
Dita OT	Standard, DITA OT client for DITA, fminit\openToolkit.dll, structured		12	---
DocBook	Standard, DocBook Starter Kit SGML Application, fminit\docbook.dll, structured		≤15
Element Catalog Manager	Standard, Import and export element definitions, fminit\ecm.dll,structured		≤15
Externalize	Standard, Externalize Insets, fminit\Externalize.dll, all		12	---
FasterDITAMapPublishingPOC	Standard,Faster PDF Publishing Client for DITA, FasterDITAMapPublishingPOC.dll, structured		17
FmDctmRestClient	Standard, Adobe Documentum Rest Connector, FmDctmRestClient.dll, all	Adobe Documentum Rest Connector	14	---
FmDispatcher	Standard, Central routing client for SGML import/export, fminit\dispatch.dll,structured		≤15
FileDownload	Standard, Generic File Download Client, fminit\FileDownload.dll, all	Helper appl. for the CMS'	12	---
FMPDFReflow	Standard, Post-process PDF for Reflow, fminit\fmpdfreflow.dll,all		≤15
FMPublisher	Standard, Publish FrameMaker Documents, fminit\Publisher\FMPublisher.dll, all	Publishin multiple formats (ePub, MS, HTMLhelp, Kindle, WebHelp,	12	---
FMReview	Standard, Review FrameMaker Documents, fminit\Publisher\FMReview.dll, all, null, fminit\Publisher		12	---
FmTranslator	Standard, Frame default translation client for SGML import/export, fminit\trnslate.dll, structured		???
FmXSLT	Standard, Central client for XSL transformation, fminit\XSLT.dll,structured		???
InitCharMap	Standard, InitCharMap, fminit\InitCharMap.dll, all		???
Microsoft Word	TextImport, WORD, WORD, ADBI, Microsoft Word, WORD Import, filters\ImportUtility.dll, all, ^.doc		4.0	---
MifHTML	Standard, Publish FrameMaker Documents, fminit\Publisher\MifHTML.dll, all, null, fminit\Publisher		16
NGL-Client	Standard, Client for NGL, fmngl.dll, all		16
Pagemaker n.n.x Document			???	15
PDFSize	Standard, Optimize PDF Size, fminit\pdfsize.dll,all		???
qrcode	Standard, QR code generator for Framemaker, fminit\fmqrcode.dll, all	Generate QR codes	12	---
QuarkXPress Document (3.3-4.1x	TextImport, QXD, QXD, ADBI, QuarkXPress Document (3.3-4.1x), Quark version 3.3-4.1x (QXD) Import, filters\ImportUtility.dll, all, ^.qxd		15
ReviewPanel	Standard, Review Panel, fminit\ReviewPanel.dll, all		16
RoboHelpPublish	Standard, Client for publishing help formats, fminit\RoboHelpPublish.dll, all	Connection to RoboHelp for publishing various forms Since FM-12 the function is built in.	11	12
ScriptingSupport	Standard, ExtendScript client for FrameMaker, fminit\FrameMakerScriptingSupport.dll, all		10 ?
Structure Generator	Standard, Generate structure in unstructured documents, fminit\sgen.dll, structured		≤15
SVG Import	FileToFileGFXImport, SVG, PDF, SVG, ORBL, SVG, SVG, fminit\SVGAGMFilter.dll,all,^.svg		15
SVGAGM	Standard, Client for SVG Import, fminit\SVGAGMFilter.dll,all		≤15
ScriptingSupport	Standard, ExtendScript client for FrameMaker, fminit\FrameMakerScriptingSupport.dll, all	ExtendScript wrapper for FDK	10	---
u3dfilter	Standard, U3D File import filter, filters\u3dfilter.dll,all		11	---
WordCount	DocReport,Count the number of words in a document,fminit\wordcnt.dll		4.0	---
XLIFF-Client	Standard, Client for XLIFF Translation, Translation\XLIFF\adobe.clients.fm.xliff.plugin.2020.x64.dll, all		16
xml-css	Standard, XML CSS generator, fminit\xmlcss.dll, structured		≤15
XmlPubUtils	Standard, Utility client for Xml Publishing, fminit\xmlpubutils.dll, structured		14	---
XmlUtilities	Standard, Utilities for XML, fminit\xmlutils.dll, structured		≤15
XPE-Client	Standard, Client for enhancing Xml Performance, XPE-Client.dll, all		15	---
X2DITA	Standard, Client for Converting to DITA Files, X2DITA.dll, all		16

See also note 20 and note 35.

[Thermometers]

Colours for progress bars, such as while printing or creating PDF. They are rarely noticed.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
ThermoDoneColor	255, 0, 255 0, 157, 245	magenta	4.0 xxx	---
ThermoRemainingColor	192, 192, 192 234, 234, 234	light gray	4.0 xxx	---

[DocCompare]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AddChangeBars	On | Off	Whether change bars are added to the composite document	4.0	---
CompareAttributesForElements	On | Off	For structured documents only: whether to compare element's attributes also.	10	---
CreateSummaryOnly	Off | On	Off: Create summary and composite document On: Create a summary document only	4.0	---
DeleteConditionTag	Deleted | any other condition tag	Delete the marked text | Replacement for deleted text.	4.0	---
DeleteReplacementText	^ | any replacement text	Replacement text to be defined for MarkDeletedText = ReplacementText	4.0	---
InsertConditionTag	Inserted | any other condition tag	Condition tag for MarkInsertedText = ConditionTag	4.0	---
InsertHyperTextLinks	On | Off	Whether hypertext links are added to the summary document	4.0	---
MarkDeletedText	ConditionDeleted | ConditionTag | ReplacementText	Standard delete condition | custom condition | with replacement text	4.0	---
MarkInsertedText	ConditionInserted | ConditionTag | Nothing	Standard inserted condition | custom condition | -	4.0	---
ThresholdFactor	75	Controls when to mark an entire paragraph or table cell as changed. 75: an entire paragraph is marked as changed if 75% or more of the words are changed.	4.0	---

[BannerText]

Banner Text provides a clickable label text in newly inserted elements to help guide the author as to the type of content to place in an element.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
BannerTextBKColor	White	Background colour (value changed from GrayLight to White in FM-14)	11	---
BannerTextFontAngle	Italic		11	---
BannerTextFontFamily		Font family of the banner text in the display. It has no default	11	---
BannerTextFontVariation	Regular		11	---
BannerTextFontWeight	Regular	up to fm-12 default was bold	11	---
BannerTextTextColor	GrayLight		14
RedisplayBannerTextForEmptyElements	On | Off	Determines whether the banner text gets redisplayed after it is deleted once. On: banner text always shows up for empty elements. Off: banner text doesn't show up after deleting it or reopening the file after saving it.	11	---

[Fonts]

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Angles	Regular, Kursiv, Slanted, Oblique, Italic, Obliqued	Definition of the font vocabulary: a list of the words. If any other font angle is specified, FM uses Italic.	3.0	---
AtmFontAutoActivation [internal]	On | Off	See note 11	5.0	---
AtmFontSubstitution [internal]	Off |On	See note 12	5.0	---
BannerFont	Arial	Font used for banner (splash) screen	5.5	9
DefaultAngle	Regular	Default used to map unknown font	3.0	---
DefaultFamily	Times, Times New Roman, Tms Rmn	Default used to map unknown fonts, can be a list	3.0	---
DefaultJapaneseDialogFont	ＭＳ Ｐゴシック, 9	For dialogues on Asian systems with non-Asian resources	5.5	---
DefaultJapaneseFamily	ＭＳ 明朝	Japanese font in JIS X 0212-1990 Shift-JIS	5.5	---
DefaultKoreanDialogFont	System, 10	For dialogues on Asian systems with none-Asian resources	5.5	---
DefaultKoreanFamily	바탕	Korean font in KS C 5601-1987	5.5	---
DefaultSimplifiedChineseDialogFont	System, 10	For dialogues on Asian systems with none-Asian resources	5.5	---
DefaultSimplifiedChineseFamily	宋体	Simplified Chinese font in GB 2312-80	5.5	---
DefaultSize	12	Default used to map unknown font	3.0	---
DefaultTraditionalChineseDialogFont	System, 10	For dialogs on Asian systems with none-Asian resources	5.5	---
DefaultTraditionalChineseFamily	細明體	Traditional Chinese font in Big5	5.5	---
DefaultVariation	Regular	Default used to map unknown font	3.0	---
DefaultWeight	Regular	Default used to map unknown font	3.0	---
DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics	Off |On	See section Preferences. See note 10	5.0	8
MathFamily	Symbol	Font family used for FrameMath (Equation Editor)	3.0	---
NonTextFamilies	ZapfDingbats, Symbol, WingDings, Monotype Sorts, Euro Monospace, Euro Sans, Euro Serif	Font families that will not be spell checked Items on second line came in with FM-5.5	3.0	---
Sizes	7pt, 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 18pt, 24pt, 36pt	Sizes which will appear in the Format dialog boxes (values must be 2pt … 400pt). The list may be extended	3.0	---
UiCalcFont	MS Sans Serif, 8, 600	Font information used for UI calculations (size of pop-up menus)	5.5	---
Variations	UltraCompressed, ExtraCompressed, Compressed, Condensed, Narrow, Regular, Wide, Poster, Expanded	Definition of the font vocabulary: a list of the words.	3.0	---
Weights	Thin 100, ExtraLight 200, SemiLight 250, Light 300, Book 300, Regular 400, SemiBold 600, DemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Heavy 900, Bolded 700	Definition of the font vocabulary: list of words and the associated weight for Windows, if the font comes from another platform. Value Bolded 700 was introduced by FM-5.5	3.0	---

The entries "Mapping for Virtual Fonts" have been removed by FM-9.0.3 (9.0p250)

Japanese font sets have changed with FM-9 again.

FontAngleAliases

Windows fonts use different font angles even when font names are the same as on other platforms. These settings assign angles used on other platforms to Windows angles.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Obliqued	Oblique	Angle aliases used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---

[FontWeightAliases]

Windows fonts use different font weights, even when font names are the same as on other platforms. These settings assign weights used on other platforms to Windows weights.

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
Bolded	Bold	Weight alias used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---
Demi	DemiBold	Weight alias used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---
Medium	Regular	Weight alias used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---
Roman	Regular	Weight alias used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---
Semi	SemiBold	Weight alias used when reading documents from other platforms (basically synonyms used when reading a document). See note 13	3.0	---

[WindowsToFrameFontAliases]

This section exists since FM version 3.0.

See note 32.

[UnknownToKnownFontMap]

See note 33.

This section exists since FM version 3.0.

[FormatList]

This section was introduced by FM-5.
See note 34.

[Export]

This section first appeared in FM-4. After that the function was implemented in the Save As … function.

Syntax definitiOn: n=<UI-name> <clipboard-name> <type> <via: executable in-fmt out-fmt ...>

Variable	Default / Option	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
1	"Rich Text Format (RTF)" "RTF" DOCUMENT W4W42F.DLL MIF MSI W4W19T.DLL MSI RTF		4.0	5.0

[Filters]

This section contains settings for identifying foreign file formats, export filters, and import filters. FM provides these settings when you install filters. Newer installations (FM 9 onwards) do not allow to install selectively. If you want to change any of the settings, install the filters again. Do not edit the settings manually in maker.ini.

The table here containonly few samples. See note 36. With FM-8 and later in FM-15/16 many filters were completely replaced.. See also note 20.

Variable	Definition	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
format	vend src dst type        descr via       extension
"0602"	AW4W MIF WordPerfect ExportFilter "WordPerfect Mac 3.5" aw4w.xxx ^.wp		5.5	---
"CDR "	IMAG CDR FrameVector GFXImport "Corel Draw" IMAGMARK.DLL ^.cdr		5.5	---
"DIB "	FRAM DIB DIB FMGFXImport "DIB" frame.exe ^.dib		5.5	16
	AIDE DIB FrameImage FMGFXImport "DIB" AIDE.dll ^.dib		16
"G4IM"	IMAG CCITTG4 FrameVector GFXImport "CCITTG4" IMAGMARK.DLL ^.g4		16
"ICO "	AIDE ICO FrameImage GFXImport "Icon" AIDE.dll ^.ico		15
"PNG "	AIDE PNG FrameImage GFXImport "Portable Network Graphics" AIDE.dll ^.png		15

Notes

1. With the development of Windows the clipboard formats changed:
   

   FM-3	OLE, META, DIB, BMP, TIFF, FrameTable, RTF, TEXT
   FM-4	OLE, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT
   FM-5 … FM-7	FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT
   FM-8 … FM-9	FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW, MIF, RTF, UNICODE TEXT, TEXT
   FM-10 …	FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF, DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT, TEXT

   The setting in FM-10 is in the right direction to avoid insertion of OLE objects with standard paste (RTF is before OLE), but most time you want the plain text with no formatting. For this change the order in this list to: UNICODE TEXT, TEXT, RTF, MIF, MIFW, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, FILE, OLE 2
2. With FM-9 the dictionaries became shared with other Adobe Applications and are now in User-area\Adobe\Linguistics\Dictionaries. The mechanism to integrate user dictionaries is not that clear dispite the Adobe blog entry.
3. The following quotation marks are defined for the languages given. Only one may be active (not commented out).
   Even with new languages added in FM-9 and later this list has not been amended - and the function not been enhanced (e.g. to automatically switch depending on language attribute).

   ;English       '   '   "   " 
     SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3
   ;German        ‚   '   "   "
   ; SmartQuotes=\xe2\xd4\xe3\xd2
   ;French        ‹   ›   «   »
   ; SmartQuotes=\xdc\xdd\xc7\xc8
   ;Swedish/Finn. '   '   "   "
   ; SmartQuotes=\xd5\xd5\xd3\xd3
   ;Italian       '   '   "   "
   ; SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd

4. There are a pair of settings for each of these items so that both inches and centimetres can be specified. The values that FM uses depend on the measurement system specified in the Number tab of the Regional Settings Control Panel in Windows. The unit of measure (in, cm) must be noted at the value.
5. When using a Language specific keyboard (Windows platform), the Right Alt-key (AltGr) triggers specific accented characters in the selected input language. The CtrlAltIsAltGr setting simply adds this facility to using the ctrl + alt keys together. This is useful in the case of no right-alt key being available on say a notebook keyboard. Without the ON setting some short cuts CTRL+ALT+x do not work properly.
6. Typing text in Asian fonts is accomplished via a special input device. FM can recognize when you are typing an Asian font and invoke this device automatically. By default, this is set to On. If you set this to Off, you must use the appropriate command to invoke the input device.
7. PaletteDir, PaletteDirStructure, and AlwaysOnTopPaletteDir specify palette folders. The values for these settings are a list of folder names, separated by commas. When you store a document in one of these folders, FM treats it as a palette (such as the Tools palette or Equations palette). Palettes in AlwaysOnTopPaletteDir always float in front of documents.
8. See for example Tool bar resources for FM ≤ 8 and Tool bar resources in FrameMaker 10
9. ConfigCustomUIFile specifies the file that contains additional custom menus or changes to existing menus or commands that you have added. The default file for this setting is customui.cfg. You can either add your menu customizations to this file, or create your own file and put its path and filename in this setting.
10. FM always uses printer font metrics to calculate where line breaks and page breaks occur. However, by default (before FM_8), the relative position of each character within a line is displayed on the screen using screen font metrics. This "looks" better on the screen but is misleading in that the positions of characters within a line on a printed page may be different than on a displayed page. In particular, if you are trying to position a graphic relative to a character in a line, you should change this setting to "On" which results in the use of printer font metrics when displaying lines.
11. AtmFontAutoActivation determines whether font sets in Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.x will be automatically activated. This means that if you open a document that uses a font that is installed on your computer but is not in a font set that's currently active, the font set will be activated automatically. The otherwise inactive font is displayed and prints correctly, but it does not appear in font menus.
12. AtmFontSubstitution determines whether ATM Deluxe will create a stand-in font for one that is missing by simulating the shape and spacing of the missing font. The simulated font will not be an exact match but will preserve line breaks and the general look of the uninstalled font. Font substitution may delay displaying a document on slower computers or if there are many fonts that must be substituted.
13. Windows fonts use different font angles and weights, even when font names are the same as on other platforms. The settings under [FontAngleAliases] and [FontWeightAliases] assign angles and weights used on other platforms to Windows angles and weights.
14. With UseDisplayUnitInTemplate to On, the default display units for the ruler, grid, and snap are taken from the document. When set to Off, the values are taken from what in the ini file itself. This makes a difference because you may want your template users to be always working in points, but unless you set this to On, no amount of tweaking the template to only use points will assure that the users will only see points.
15. When you use the Fit Windows® to Text Frame option in the Zoom pop-up menuand then change the zoom level, this flag determines whether the window resizes to fit the changed zoom level or not. When you set this flag to On and then change the zoom level, FM does not resize the document window.
16. See details at blogs.adobe.com. The file fmcustom.dll got many new icons. An additional resource file (owlres.dll) is not mentioned in maker.ini.
17. If the value is On, the file name in the document or book window title is shown in the format filename pathname. This format is also used to display the file name in the dialog that lists all open files. By default the value is set to Off, the line is marked as a comment, and the file name is displayed in the format pathname filename, as previously.
18. FM stores imported images as temporary files. If you import a file for the second time, the file is not downloaded again. After importing an image file into FM, the changes that you make in the file are not reflected in FM until you delete the temporary file and reimport the image file. To avoid having to delete the temporary file, set the AlwaysDownloadURL flag to On.
19. Help formats changed during the development of FM:

    FM-3	FM-3 view only file with (21 files of several pages)
    FM-4	FM-4 view only file with help.api (about 65 files)
    FM-5	FM-5 view only file (about 50 files)
    FM-6	Windows Help file (1 file)
    FM-7	HTML-help (about 1250 html files)
    FM-8	Windows compiled HTML help (1 chm file)
    FM-9 …	NO local help file any more. Menu Help invokes a link to Adobe Online Help However, a local Help file is invoked if no Internet access is available ($HOME\Documents\FrameMaker.chm)

20. Number of APIs and Filters have significantly changed over time:

    Number of…	FM-3	FM-4	FM-5	FM 5.5	FM-6	FM-7	FM-8	FM-9	FM-10	FM-11	FM-12	FM-13
    API's	0	2	6	10	9	44	55	45	69	82	87	76
    Filters	71	39	27	78	78	78	47	48	70	73	73	74
    Lines in maker.ini including. comments	378	448	501	638	660	~ 745	805	842	911	963	992	1020
    Size of maker.exe [MB]		2.9			3.8	4.6	7.6	9.6	9.3	9.7	10.3	12.0
    Size of installation directory [MB] en		18.8			96.5	220…300	769	612	638	746	1620	1738

    FM-11 indtruced Views which moved this enty into AuthorView.ini (section General) and/or XmlCodeView.ini (section General)
    FM-12 introduced ...
    FM-13 introduced bidirectional language support and
21. Most library colours contain a CMYK value and an RGB value. The CMYK value is used for printing and the RGB value is used for screen display. The 4 options are:
    Printing&Screen: This is the FM 5.x behaviour. It will display and print the converted RGB value.
    None: This is the FM 5.5 behaviour. It will display and print the RGB value produced by the colour library.
    Printing: This is the default in FM since version 5.5.6. It will display the RGB value produced by the colour library and print the converted RGB.
    Screen: This displays the converted RGB and prints the RGB values from the library.
22. With FM-11 Views were introduced which moved this enty into AuthorView.ini (section General) and/or XmlCodeView.ini (section General).
23. When FM was first developed, placed graphics needed a screen representation within the document to facilitate placement. However, if your choice of imported formats (like AI and PDF files) doesn't require generating those images then you can trim the size of your files by turning off the flag for producing facets for placed images. You now have the choice of removing graphic facets from imported files, which has the net effect of reducing your FM file size.
24. If you wish to roundtrip to applications such as Visio files and PowerPoint, you set the variable to ON. This lets you see the direct reference to the file in the XML View, and double-clicking on the placed image in FM will open up the graphic in the appropriate application. If other applications should be supported for OLE, add them to the [Filters] section of maker.ini according to these examples: rt 54="pptx" OLE2 OLE2 OLE2 FMGFXImport "pptx" frame.exe ^.pptx 55="VSD" OLE2 OLE2 OLE2 FMGFXImport "VSD" frame.exe ^.vsd
25. Enter a value to limit the number of rows in the multimedia link table. This table is relevant when you create links to a graphic/multimedia in FM 11. It is possible for a graphic/multimedia object to have hundreds of parts. Default value for this flag is 100.
26. Starting with FM-9 the serial numbers are no more stored/visible in maker.ini. and no more displayed in the FM About box. They are only stored in the registration server at Adobe.
27. The values for MakerWin and ConsoleWin specify normal, minimized, and maximized positions. The first value determines which position to use: 1 for normal, 2 for minimized, 3 for maximized. The next six values are pairs of x and y offsets that specify the different window positions; the first pair specify the minimized position, the second pair specify the maximized position, and the third pair specify the normal position. The last two values are the normal window width and height.
28. If you place an anchored frames, graphical frame, or text frame on a document and change the direction of the document, the object is vertically flipped on the document. This implies that if a object is placed 10 px from the left margin, changing the direction will cause the object to be placed 10 px from the right margin. However, the orientation of the object remains the same.
29. Cursor movement can be logical or visual: By default, the cursor in an RTL enabled document moves right to let as your type. FM has system of a strong (primary) caret and a weak (secondary) caret. The strong caret indicates where an inserted character will be displayed when that character's direction is the same as the base direction of the text. The weak caret shows where an inserted character will be displayed when the character's direction is the opposite to the base direction.
30. See a discussion of the issue with this type of fonts - and the solution by Adobe.
31. Preferences > Pods > Location criteria: Example: When LocDisplayCriteria is On, LocParaStyle1=On specifies first column's title as para style's name in Pods. Default value is Heading1. This flag is relevant to Unstructured FM. Example: When LocDisplayCriteria is On, LocParaStyle1=On specifies first column's title as para style's name in Pods. Default value is Heading1. This flag is relevant to Unstructured FM. For more information on Pods, see FrameMaker Help.
32. A font in Windows does not always have the same name as the comparable font on another platform. This often happens because in Windows a variation such as Narrow is part of a font family, whereas on other platforms the variation is an option independent of the font family. Moreover, Windows uses only regular and italic for angles, while some fonts on other platforms have additional angles such as oblique.
    or the interpretation of this section see Common Font Aliases for FrameMaker for Windows and Cross-platform font usage in FrameMaker
    he settings use this syntax (it must be on one line): Windows-font [angle|*], [weight|*] = Frame-font [angle|*], [weight|*], [variation|*]
33. When you open a document that requires fonts not available on your system, an alert box appears telling you the document uses unavailable fonts. If you click OK, FM opens the document and substitutes the unavailable fonts with the fonts specified under [UnknownToKnownFontMap] in maker.ini. Initially, this section has a few lines of comments and some mappings for common Macintosh® fonts. You can change these mappings and add others.
    Note that the settings under [UnknownToKnownFontMap] map one FM font to another. This is different from [WindowsToFrameFontAliases], which assigns a FM font name to an equivalent Windows font.
    For the interpretation of this section see Common Font Aliases for FrameMaker for Windows and Cross-platform font usage in FrameMaker
    The mappings must use this syntax (it must be on one line):
    unavailable_Frame_font [angle|*], [weight|*], [variation|*] = available_Frame_font [angle|*], [weight|*], [variation|*]
    With FM-8 a number of entries were added here due to changes in font sets. For western fonts:
    Zapfdingbats, *,*= Adobe Pi Std,*,* Myriad Roman, *,*=Myriad Pro,*,* Minion, *,*=Minion Pro,*,* Garamond, *,*=Adobe Garamond Pro,*,*
    With FM-5.5 Mapping for Japanese fonts commonly used by Frame Products on non-Windows platforms where added, for example:
    HeiseiMin, *, *, *=ＭＳ 明朝, *, *, * HeiseiMin W3, *, *, *=ＭＳ 明朝, *, *, * HeiseiMincho, *, *, *=ＭＳ 明朝, *, *, *
    Starting with FM-12 provides dialogues to change fonts: View > Pods > Fonts.
34. The following is an excerpt from the FDK Programmer's Guide under the heading Automatic recognition of a file format.
    Some graphic file formats have signature bytes. Signature bytes are a set of bytes that have a unique value and location in a part icular file format. FM can use signature bytes to identify a graphic file's format.
    The documentation for the file format that your graphics filter converts may contain information on the signature bytes for that format. If it does, you can register the signature bytes in the [FormatList] section of the maker.ini file. Each graphic file format description must be on a separate line and must have the following format: n=facet_name start_offset signature_size signature

    Parameter	Explanation (you can enclose any of the arguments in double quotation marks.)
    n	Any number
    facet_name	File format's description (also used in the client registration). This string should match an <source-name> or <destination-name> entry in FilterList – that's how we associate an auto-recognized format with a filter.
    start_offset	How many bytes from the start of the file the signature begins.
    signature_size	Size in bytes of the signature.
    signature	Hexadecimal value of the signature. The hex value must be started with 0x or 0X. The size of the signature must match the size of the size defined in size entry.

    For example, you can register the file format for MIF with the following:
    [FormatList] 100="MIF" 0 8 0x3c4d494646696c65 ; 0 offset ; 8 lenth of signature ; 0x3c4d494646696c65 is the hexadecimal encoding of the characters MIFFile

35. Definition syntax normal: ClientType, description, path, mode
    ClientType may be: Standard, TakeControl, or DocReport
    Definition syntax filter: ClientType, facet, format_id, vendor_id, display_name, description, path, mode, file extension for filter [extension|null], optional dependent dll's path (absolute or relative to $FMHOME)
    Client type may be: FileToFileTextImport, FileToFileGFXImport, or ExportFilter;
    Format_id is dot-extension of the file that identifies its format—for example, .rtf, .bmp, or .cgm;
    vendor_id is a four-character maximum string that identifies the vendor;
    display_neme is the name to display in dialog boxes when the user chooses the filter
    Mode can be: makers, structured, or all. This parameter was introduced with FM 7.1 (combining FM and FM+SGML into one product): maker | structured | all. It determines for which mode(s) to load this client.
    Optional Dependent dll path is required if API Client has dependency on other dlls and during load of FM, these path should be available. [Note: Optional file extension should be set to 'null' if not used.]
    for example, TestClient=TestClient, TestClient, fminit\Publisher\TestClient.dll,all,null,fminit\Publisher --> TestClient has dependency on fminit\Publisher (relative path)
    TestClient=TestClient, TestClient, fminit\Publihser\TestClient.dll,all,^.xml,fminit\Publisher --> TestClient knows file text extension xml (e.g.) and path fminit\Publisher (relative path).
    TestClient=TestClient, TestClient, fminit\Publisher\TestClient.dll,all,null,fminit;fminit\Publisher;C:\TestClient --> TestClient has dependency on fminit, fminit\Publisher (relative path) and C:\TestClient (absolute path)
36. Syntax definition changed over the development of FM:

    FM-3	n=<source-name> <destination-name> <type> <via> <file-extension>
    FM-4	n=<UI-name> <clipboard-name> <type> <via: executable in-fmt out-fmt ...>
    FM-5 …	n=<formatid><vendorid><source-name> <destination-name> <type> <description> <via> <file-extension>

    The concatenation <vendorid><filterid> is used by FM to identify filters uniquely.
    <vendorid> and <filterid> are 4-byte strings (if shorter, blank-pad on the right and enclose in "quotes".
37. Since FM-14 the view settings are global to all open documents. Their values are kept in the PrefXxx entries.
38. I can not understand why Adobe repeatedly killed the coloured tool bar icons and provided only grey stuff. Beta testers had a hard work to convince Adobe about the requirement of coloured icons. For one, marketing has too much influence in this company and second: knowledge disappears with change of head of development … For an application dealing with black-and-white objects (text) it is essential to have a contrasting UI, that is in colour. In addition colour serves as a grouping aid for icons relating to, for example, tables or graphics. FM-9 startes with the new interface in grey, this continued to FM-11, FM-12 used coloured iconss, while FM-13 and FM14 again used grey ones.
39. FM flavour XML-Author was introduced with FM-11 and abandoned after FM-13 and hence all entries ralated to it became useless.
40. This doesn't seem to have any influence on Windows 10: even for FM-12 I get the Windows dialogues, not the old FM dialogues.
41. Replacing the unreliable function of [FavoriteFiles] the entries in [RecentlyVisitedFiles] got an appendix: ,0,0 for ordinary recents and ,1,1 for those which are listed as favourites in the Welcome Screen (with a pin-icon). The function is still not reliable (even in FM-16.0.3): very often the entries >7 in the ini file are not listed under "more".
42. For network locking (Preferences > Lock document on Network) the name of the computer is taken from the OS information since FM10; in my case it is PC-KLAUS.
43. Although present in maker.ini, the defined values are no more used in the graphics tool bar. They are replaced by a slider and an input field - very bad.
    

AuthorView.ini

This exists only in the user area. Product XML Author lived only for FM-11 to FM-13.

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
LastUsedWorkspace	Blank |		11	14

Ditafm.ini

Located in $HOME\fminit\ditafm and copied to the user area. This file was introduced with FM-8. Since then it grew from 43 to 148 lines for FM-13.
This file is not documented by Adobe, but it contains some commonts.

Ditafm-output.ini

Located in $HOME\fminit\ditafm and copied to the user area. This file was introduced with FM-11. The file FM-12-ditafm-output.pdf contains an excerpt from the Adobe issued documentation.

For FM-12 this file received only minor changes:
Added: CompositeDocTemplate_1.3=ditabase1.3.template.fm
Extended: ParaTags=title.0|title.1|title.2|title.3|title-index

FM-13: The list of options comprises about 30 pages which I will not repeat here.

XmlCodeView.ini

This exists only in the user area. These entries define the syntax highlighting in Code View with function Pretty Printing. The settings are available in menu Preferences > XML.

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AttributeColor	255	= Red ???	11	---
AttributeValueColor	16711680 (hex FEFFC2)		11	---
CDataColor	8421504 (hex 808080)		11	---
CommentColor	32768 (hex 8000)		11	---
DelimiterColor	16711680 (hex FEFFC2)		11	---
ElementNameColor	128 (hex 80)		11	---
EntityColor	255		11	---
FontFamily	Consolas		11	---
LastUsedWorkspace	Blank |		11	---
LineNumber	Yes | No		11	---
PIColor	16711935 (hex FEFFD3)		11	---
WordWrap	No | Yes		11	---
XMLDeclarationColor	16711935 (hex FEFFD3)		11	---

XMLLangPreferences

Use this XML Attribute for denoting Language characteristics of a given element
AttributeForXMLLang=xml:lang
Apply Font Family, Pair Kern based on xml:lang attribute

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AttributeColorApplyFontSettingsBasedOnXMLLangAttribute	On		16	---

XMLLangExclusionList

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
AttributeColorDITA_1.3_topic	codeblock	StructAppName= comma-separated list of element tags to be excluded from XML Lang Functionality	16	---

MathFlowPlugin.ini

This exists only in the user area.

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
MathFlowPath	H:\Adobe\framemaker.12en\AdobeFrameMaker12\MathFlow\lib\		12	---
ClassName	framemaker/mathflow/editor/FMEditorApplication		12	---
editor	structure		12	---
licensefile			12	---
ComposerLicense			12	---
EulaStatus	Declined			---
fontsize	14		12	---
dpi	300		12	---
EnableTrialLicenseAlert	Yes | N0		12	---
InlineEquation	No | Yes		12	---
PropertiesAmbient	No | Yes		12	---
ApplyPgfFormat	No | Yes		12	---

ModalDialogPosition.ini

FM-12 introduced a number of resizeable modal dialogs. The last location of them is saved in this ini file. This file exists only in the user area and holds 80 to 100 lines..
It already had disappeared in FM-14 (2017) - have now idea how the positions are kept now (have nothing useful found in the registry)?

PDF Setup=1179,388,1661,826
pgf_opt.dbre=1511,469,1727,708
color_def.dbre=1092,319,1449,673
svgimport.dbre=60,90,344,286
...

inputfile=748,442,1120,717
doc_quit.dbre=1661,539,1868,698      

PdfSize.ini

This file keeps the settings from Format > Document > Optimuze PDF size > Options.

Only in FM-6 this file is located in $HOME\fminit. Afterwards it is located in the user area with maker.ini.

Variable	Example definitions	Remarks	FM-version
			new	obs.
CancelOnError	Yes | No		6	---
ClearOptimizationInfo	No | Yes		6	---
ForceOptimization	No | Yes		6	---
Interactive	Yes | No		6	---
OptimizeAll	Yes | No		6	---
PromptWhenOpening	Yes | No		6	---
PromptWhenSaving	All | Optimized		6	---
SaveDirectory	E:\_DDDprojects\		6	---
TraceMode	Warning		6	---

RestoreSession.txt

Although this file has a txt extension, it is not pure text. For example it may look like this (some characters my not be displayed):

Maker WYSIWYG VieweC:\Users\Klaus\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\12\WorkSpaces\UnStructured\WYSIWYGView\Authoring.cfws*8 6 *E:\FM-specials\FM-12-tests\fm12-details.fm


HelpCfg.ini

This file was introduced with with FM-12 and is located in $HOME. It is actually an xml file defining items for the Help Center button in the offline help ($Home\Documents\FrameMaker.chm):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<HelpProperties>
 <ProductName>Adobe FrameMaker (2015 release)</ProductName>
 <ProductID>ADBEAAAA-1234-9876-EEEE-FAFAADBEEDBA</ProductID>
 <Language>en_US</Language>
 <OnlineUrl>http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2015/using/index.html</OnlineUrl>
 <Links title="FrameMaker Help Center">
  <Link>
   <Name>What's New in FrameMaker</Name>
   <Value>http://www.adobe.com/in/products/framemaker/features.html</Value>
  </Link>
...
  <Link>
   <Name>Feedback Form</Name>
   <Value>https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&amp;product=63</Value>
  </Link>
 </Links>
</HelpProperties>

PageSize.cfg

This file resides in $HOME/fmint and claimes to define the 7 standard page sizes listed in the Page Sizes popup menu in the Custom Blank Paper and Page Size dialogue boxes.

At least since FM-6 this file is useless. If it is renamed, or its contents changed (see example below), nothing is changed in behaviour of the default sizes. They seem to be defined by internal code.

Replace B5 by a standard book format
<Q5
  <Width 17cm>
  <Height 24.0cm>
  <Gap 0.5cm>
  <Margins 1.7cm>
>

MathChar.cfg

This file resides in $HOME/fmint and defines the symbols used in the Equations Editor.

<MetaFamily Symbol
  < alpha 	61 Symbol Regular>
  < beta 	62 Symbol Regular>
  ...
  < div 	b8 Symbol Regular>
  < fract 	a4 Symbol Regular>
>

Addtional math symbols can be defined with the method described in the user guide: look for "Create and define math elements".
Prof. Karem A. Sakallah, University of Michigan developed 2002 a FrameMaker template defining additional mathematcial elements for better equivalence to LaTeX. Unfortunately the FM file has gone from the web. However I have saved the file as long as it was available: pdf and mif-11version.

Sources

• Comments in maker.ini files
• Tests and experiments in various FM versions
• FrameMaker xxx INI reference
• Adobe FrameMaker resources
• Customizing Frame Products (FM7)
• Adobe FrameMaker 8 User Guide
• Using Adobe FrameMaker 9
• 10 neat things you can do in FrameMaker
• Adobe TechComm blogs, in particular Understanding the maker.ini file of FrameMaker
• FrameMaker 3.0 Promotion Video 1992 (41 sec)
• Adobe FrameMaker Video Hub
• Rocky Mountain Training Blog