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• • August 12, 2010 at 6:05 pm #56667
    Tom Pardy

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    Usually, when I open a CS4 InDesign document by double-clicking its icon (Mac OS X Snow Leopard), the resulting document window is well behaved and sits just to the right of the toolbox panel and is sized so that its right edge is just to the left of the various panels down the right of my screen. Its top margin is just beneath the control panel across the top of the screen and its bottom edge is clear of the bottom of my screen.

    Recently, however, I have had several instances of the document window being less well-behaved. Its left edge is hard-up-against the left edge of my screen and tucked beneath the toolbox panel and its right edge is hard-up-against the right edge of my screen and tucked beneath the various panels there. This makes selecting objects behind those panels difficult. The top edge can be up to about 7-8mm below the Control panel (who needs a gap there?) and the bottom edge (which, of course, contains all those useful navigation buttons) can be hiding partially-hidden beneath the bottom edge of my screen. But this does not always happen. Curious.

    Have I overlooked some setting somewhere? Does the fact that I am using Soxy have anything to do with it?

  • August 17, 2010 at 4:57 pm #56720
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Hey, surely this problem is not one that only happens for me?

    The larger-than-usual window means (on a Mac) that the “traffic light” buttons at the top left are hidden behind the toolbox panel — most inconvenient. What have I done wrong?

  • August 23, 2010 at 4:07 pm #56787
    Somerset Walmsley

    Member

    It sounds like you might have turned on your Application Frame by accident? Check you Preferences or Window>Application Frame. Without a screenshot, it's rather hard to picture what you're describing, if it's not an issue with the Application Frame.

  • August 23, 2010 at 11:17 pm #56790
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Thank you, Vasha. I was beginning to think I had somehow become invisible.

    I have taken a screenshot but, because I have a 24″ screen (iMac) it became a huge graphic. I have edited it down to a smaller size and have retained as much detail as I can. I hope it shows you (and anyone else who can now see me :-) ) what I am talking about.

    This is the first time I have attempted to attach a graphic to a post, so hope it works!

    

  • August 24, 2010 at 5:17 am #56804
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Your panels are floating, not docked. If you move the tool panel to the left a little you'll see a vertical blue line indicating that it's docking. Then the docs won't go behind it. Undocked panels float above your document windows.

  • August 24, 2010 at 5:57 am #56807
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Thank you, David.

    Certainly moving the Toolbox panel away from the edge of the screen and then back again until it “clicked” into position has stopped the window from disappearing behind it. But, despite my best efforts to do the same with the panels down the right hand side of the screen, the window still goes behind them.

    But at least now I can get access to the “traffic lights” without fiddling with the bottom-right corner to resize the window and then dragging it to the right! Thank you again!

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