Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

Tue Sep 26 08:16:53 PDT 2006

I've been down the path . . . tried BootCamp, Parallels, and only looked at some others. 

*For ME* the solution is a fairly low-end Dell laptop to run FM 7.2. Happily, I had used FM 4.0 on Windows and was familiar with the differences between Mac and Windows. Adobe allows upgrades from "any version" of FM, so it wasn't too expensive.

I emphasize that this is the best solution for me. Others like Parallels (which continues to improve over the weeks and months); still others like BootCamp. 

I   downloaded a freeware program, Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ that allows one to use one mouse/keyboard for, say, a Macintel and Windows machines sitting next to each other. I've seen Synergy work, but have not installed it myself, because the instructions for Macintel say ". . . in your root directory . . . ." I don't want to go there. Ten years ago I didn't mind muddling around in root directories. Now, however, I'd rather hire somebody else to do it. (The Windows program is fairly simple to install).

Re FM on Windows. It works fine. There are a few things about the Windows FM that I like better than the Mac version. There are a few things in the Mac version that I like better than the Windows version. In general, I don't like Windows (who ever does once they've learned Mac?).

I can move my documents back and forth between the OS9 version of FM and the Windows version since I'm have the same fonts open fonts on both computers. I didn't buy Acrobat Std/Professional for Windows because, for most of my purposes, the Acrobat Distiller does what I need. For those projects that need more, I move over to the six-year-old OS9 computer.

As I said, this is what works well for me. Others like different solutions. Aren't we glad that there are several workarounds--not just one--to keep using FM!!

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----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk>
To: Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com>; Scott Abel <abelsp at netdirect.net>
Cc: framers at FrameUsers.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:35:10 AM
Subject: RE: Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

At 06:11 -0700 26/9/06, Dov Isaacs wrote:

>Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X.

I expect Scott was intending to use PC FrameMaker and something like Parallels Workstation.

Scott: there are some folks on the 'FrameMaker for OS X' group who have been down this path. Do you want to try there? <mailto:fmforosx at yahoogroups.com>

-- 
Steve
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