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• • June 9, 2011 at 9:47 am #59821
    Lala Lala

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    Somehow, without ever consciously doing it, my indesign window stops being maximized (it's whatever you call the windowed mode between maximized and minimized). Of the three buttons at the top right, I never click the middle one (maximize/restore down). But it happens anyway. Anyone else experiencing this?

    I've stretched the windowed mode to take up as much area as possible but still I'll occasionally find myself accidentally clicking behind indesign when I go to the file/edit/view menu. Any thoughts on how to fix this permanently?

  • June 15, 2011 at 11:13 am #59859
    Lala Lala

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    haha, this must just be me… but it's really just driving me batsh!t. I've had to re-maximize it about ten times just today. Horizontal scrollbar keeps hiding behind the taskbar. I go to click a menu and click my browser or something instead. How is it adobe's messed up one of the most basic windows function? In ten years of windows I've never had a window that consistently forgets it's maximized.

  • June 18, 2011 at 3:35 pm #59886
    Alan Gilbertson

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    ID's misbehavior with Windows OS functions is a long-standing annoyance. I reported the “bottom of the window hides behind the taskbar” bit way back in CS3, from what I recall. ID starts in a restored (windowed) mode that is almost indistinguishable from full screen. It does this almost regardless of what its window size was adjusted to last time out. No idea when they're going to fix that behavior, or any of several other issues with Windows chrome (like the fact that a “New Folder” in a Save dialog is created without its name field open for editing, or that none of the Save or Open dialogs are scrollable with a mouse wheel until you click in the directory listing, sometimes more than once).

    The one that annoys most, though, is ID's trick of “opening” as a tiny, super-minimized window partly outside of the top left corner of the screen.

    Report the bug. The more who do, the more likely it is to be addressed in the next round (or even in a dot release).

  • June 20, 2011 at 8:27 am #59899
    Lala Lala

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    Good to know it's not just me. Is there a standard place where such bugs get reported? I know there are adobe forums, maybe also email etc.? I want to mention it wherever it might actually get noticed. Where did you report your own issues? I haven't had to deal with the super minimized window yet, knock on wood.

  • June 20, 2011 at 8:45 am #59900
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Here's one place to vote: https://indesign.uservoice.com

  • June 20, 2011 at 10:00 am #59901
    Lala Lala

    Participant

    Cheers for the link. Do we know if adobe looks at this wishlist?

  • June 20, 2011 at 2:54 pm #59902
    Alan Gilbertson

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    CreeDo said: I haven't had to deal with the super minimized window yet, knock on wood.

    ---

    Do you have a dual monitor setup? I have a suspicion that might be a trigger for that problem. If you're single-monitor and have never seen the problem, that would be a clue. (Always looking for clues I can pass on to the engineers!)

  • June 20, 2011 at 3:18 pm #59903
    Lala Lala

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    Yup, single monitor only. I've seen other programs do something like that, but it's rare and usually just a fluke.

  • August 10, 2011 at 10:54 am #60251
    jtherieau

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    Re “ID's trick of “opening” as a tiny, super-minimized window partly outside of the top left corner of the screen”:

    Same thing's happening to me using a single monitor, Windows 7, and Indesign CS5. ID frequently, if not always, launches minimized in the upper left corner.

    I found this article:

    https://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_ge…..mized.html

    So I opened the ID Shortcut Properties, and changed the Run setting from Normal to Maximized.

    Seems to have fixed the problem for now.

  • August 12, 2011 at 8:34 am #60266
    Lala Lala

    Participant

    Cheers for that idea therieau, it works well… the window stays at the same size all day. One less annoyance.

  • July 18, 2017 at 11:51 am #96189
    Brother Gabriel-Marie

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    This is an old thread, but I keep having this problem in InDesign CS6, and I finally found a way to fix it.

    I created a panel with Configurator 4: https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/configurator.html
    The panel has a field at Panel > Open Script > On Panel Initilization
    which will run javacript.
    So I put this there:

    //automatically maximize InDesign
    var window = app.documents[0].layoutWindows[0];
    window.maximize();

    Now my InDesign CS6 opens maximized just like I want.

  • July 19, 2017 at 7:36 am #96195
    Lala Lala

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    Appreciate it Gabriel! It still happens and still annoys me so I’ll give that a try. Configurator sounds useful.

  • July 19, 2017 at 7:58 am #96206
    Brother Gabriel-Marie

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    Ah – you can do this without configurator too.

    Create the folder “startup scripts” here if it doesn’t exist
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS6\Scriptstartup scripts

    Now, create a new text file here called “startup.jsx” – you can name it something else if you like as long as it has “.jsx” on the end.
    Then, paste this code into that jsx file.
    The script will run automatically when InDesign starts. Easy!

    //automatically maximize InDesign
    var window = app.documents[0].layoutWindows[0];
    window.maximize();

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