FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

[Jacob Schäffer]

This is definitely NOT a Visio issue with Framemaker, but a general MS OLE
implementation issue.
 
OLE has always been dangerous in many aspects even though it may seem to
work OK at first sight on the local machine.

Apart from effectively preventing document portability, OLE object linking
are likely to force you into a life with many artifacts such as e.g. ackward
font styles, text spacing and colours. You may also find curves sliced up
into small line segments and perhaps also stroked curves and lines appear as
filled outlines -- depending on your display card driver.

In my view OLE linking and embedding is a complete disaster for production
workflows where reliability is a must-have. And Framemaker is not the one to
blame :-)

Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Jacob Schäffer  |  Chief Developer
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