Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 - Setting View Only Document Options

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Setting View Only document options
You can use MIF statements to control the display of View Only documents. A View Only document is a locked
FrameMaker hypertext document that a user can open, read, and print but not edit. You can use MIF statements to
control the appearance and behavior of the document window and to control the behavior of cross-references in
locked documents.
The MIF statements for View Only documents are intended for hypertext authors who want more control over
hypertext documents. They do not have corresponding commands in the user interface.
The View Only MIF statements described in this section must appear in a
Document statement. These statements
have no effect in an unlocked document. Make sure that the
Document statement also includes the following
substatement:
<DViewOnly Yes>
Changing the document window
You can use MIF statements to change the appearance and behavior of the document window in the following ways:
• To suppress the document window menu bar, use the following statement:
<DViewOnlyWinMenubar No>
This statement has no effect in the Windows version of FrameMaker because those versions have an application
menu bar rather than a document window menu bar.
• To suppress the display of scroll bars and border buttons in the document window, use the following statement:
<DViewOnlyWinBorders No>
• To suppress selection in the document window, include the following statement:
<DViewOnlySelect No>
You can normally select text and objects in a locked document by Control-dragging in UNIX and Windows versions.
Specifying
<DViewOnlySelect No> prevents all selection in a locked document.
• To suppress the appearance of a document region pop-up menu, use the statement:
<DViewOnlyWinPopup No>
A document region pop-up menu is a menu activated by the right mouse button. For example, in UNIX versions of
FrameMaker, the Maker menu can be accessed by pressing the right mouse button. If the
DViewOnlyWinPopup
statement has a value of
No, the background menu does not appear when the right mouse button is pressed. This
statement has no effect in the Windows version of FrameMaker.
• To make a window behave as a palette window, use the following statement:
<DViewOnlyWinPalette Yes>
A palette window is a command window, such as the Equations palette, that exhibits special platform-dependent
behavior. In UNIX versions of FrameMaker, a palette window can only be dismissed; it cannot be closed to an icon.
In Windows versions, a palette floats outside the main application window and cannot be unlocked. To edit the
palette, you need to reset the
DViewOnlyWinPalette statement to No in the MIF file before opening it in
FrameMaker.
Using active cross-references
A locked document automatically has active cross-references. An active cross-reference behaves like a hypertext
gotolink command; when the user clicks on a cross-reference, FrameMaker displays the link’s destination page. By
default, the destination page is shown in the same document window as the link’s source.