FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

[Scott White]

I have the trial version of 9 and I can open all our 7.1 and 7.2  
templates just fine. Still playing with the new look and feel of it. I  
do like that it supports windows cmyk.


Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com



On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Tarlochan S. Nahal wrote:

>
> Dear Frame Users,
>
> We are a small Tech Pubs group using FM 7.2 on Windows XP platform.  
> Recently, it started to behave strangly and refused to import any  
> Visio drawings. There seems to be no known cure for it with the  
> current setup. Maybe it was automatic Windows SP upgrade that did  
> the mischief. It suddenly stopped accepting Visio drawings in their  
> native format (.vsd). The situation is so bad that even if we can  
> import a Visio drawing, we are not able to save the document until  
> we purge that drawing!
>
> I called Adobe Tech Support few times and finally learned from them  
> that they do not support Visio on FM 7.2 anymore!  Of course, we can  
> import jpeg, pdf, tiff, etc. So we are contemplating on upgrading to  
> FM 9.
>
> I would appreciate if some of you could answer some of my questions.
>
> 1. Is it backward compatible with older versions? If so, how far  
> back does it go? For example, can it open FM 6 docs and Save As FM6  
> or FM7 docs?
>
> 2. We use FM 7.x templates. Would there be any compatibility issues?
>
> 3. What are the primary new features of FM9 and what is your overall  
> experience with it?
>
> I will appreciate any feedback.
>
> Regards
>
> Tarlochan S. Nahal
>
> Sr. Technical Writer
>
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