Way to save Frame9 files in Frame7 format?

Jeremy H. Griffith jeremy at omsys.com
Fri Jul 31 16:22:48 PDT 2009


On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:17:40 -0600, "Fausset, Marilyn" 
<marilyn.fausset at snia.org> wrote:

>QU: Is there a plug-in (or other approach) for saving FrameMaker 9 files
>as FrameMaker 7 files? I don't have Frame 9 yet but understand that it
>doesn't give this option, although Frame 8 did.
>
>Currently we are using FrameMaker 7.2 for all spec work (without SP-3 so
>we can include Visio diagrams by reference), and we don't want to change
>yet (various reasons).  If this has already been discussed, I must have
>missed it.

FM9 does let you save as FM 7 MIF.  I haven't tested this in detail,
though.  FM8 had the same ability, but had a problem with number
formats where the bullet char was still in Unicode, which won't work 
in 7.  I don't know if that was fixed in 9.  Caveat emptor!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/



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