FM9: Possible to make "fit window to page" the default?

Question

I'm using FM9, structured, on Windows 7.  (My company recently upgraded from FM7.0.)  In FM 7.0, my documents seemed to remember the last zoom I had set, and if I saved them having set "Fit Window to Page", the next time I opened the document that setting would be in effect.
This doesn't seem to be the case with FM9. Every time I open a document, its window fills the screen, and I need to manually fit the page to my preferred zoom (100 or 90%) from the Zoom status bar menu.  There are a lot of options for tweaking preferences for windows - I have not selected to open documents as tabs, for example - and I wonder whether a preference setting is preventing the fit window to page setting from being remembered per document, or whether there is any other way I can make that the default for opening documents.
Thanks very much for your help.
-- garyZ

Answer 1

Still struggling with this, and the possible confounding factors, like differnet interface preference settings.  Some online research I've done seems to point to this being a problem in FM9, that is, setting a default zoom and fit for all documents.  There are some third-party plugins that say they can do this... but not for FM9.  So maybe the answer is "upgrade to FM 10", but that isn't an option for my department at this time.
Further symptoms:
- If I open all chapters in a book together in a single tabbed window, and explicitly set the first document to Fit Window to Page, I get what I want for that document, but as soon as I choose another chapter in anotehr tab, the window widens (I show a single page only), leaving a lot of gray empty window space.  I can explicitly set THAT document to Fit Window to Page, but when I click back on the first chapter I was working on, it opens wide; it has lost the Fit Window to Page I originally set for it.  Working that way, any time I change tabs, and frequently when I do operations like changing the conditional text that shows, the window containing all the tabs widens.  I would like to prevent that if possible.
- Even when working on individual chapters, if I set one to Fit Window to Page (a setting that held, if I subsequently saved the document, in FM7) the setting is not (consistently, it seems) remembered, and the next time I open the single chapter, the window opens wide, or maximized (23" wide monitor) as if it is trying to give me a two-page view, but I'm only working with one page views (my preference because it's what I'm used to).
- Regardless of how the files open individually (sometimes the zoom and fit seems to hold), when I open a book file, then use Open All Files In Book (having set the interface to NOT open all the files as tabs in a single window), I get this bizarre Time Tunnel effect whereby each chapter opens in a window that fits within the bounds of the previous chapter.  If the first chapter opens correctly, say 100% zoom and Fit Window to Page, the second opens at 100% zoom, but fits in the first, the third within the second, and if the book has enough chapters, the last chapters are vertically tiny, not showing more than a line or two of text.  So I need to manually rearrange and re-fit them all before I work on them.  What a pain.
I have to say, the FM9 interface is awfully clunky.  I don't know if it's implemented (partly) using Flash or what, but whole book operations like opening or closing all files, saving a book as PDF, sometimes even just switching the conditional text that is shown generally result in a frozen screen and a title bar that indicates "not responding" for a couple of minutes before FM9 gets it's act together and returns (often with windows resized and zoomed).  It can be pretty frustrating to work with, and can really slow me down.
I'm using structured FM, but not DITA - in house designed EDD, probably based on docbook, but I'm not sure.  FM9 is completely updated with available patches.
I've tried playing with the different Interface Preferences, to see if that helps - variously having FM open files as tabs to share the same large tabbed window, or turning that off to have them open as individual files in individual windows.  I still cannot get Fit Window to Page to hold consistently.  It's a relatively minor nit, but it is annoying, and gobbles extra time for me to keep resetting the working environment as I like it.  I have set up a workspace for myself, but this doesn't seem to include the zoom settings, only the various palettes/panels and their states and positions.
If anyone knows of or discovers a fix to this issue, your help would be much appreciated.
-- garyZ