Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

[Art Campbell]

EPublisher is supposed to be a new release/version of WebWorks, but I have
no personal info about it.

RH can produce a herd of formats including CHM. I don't think it's
especially difficult to master, but like most programs, I think it follows
the 80/20 rule. You can do most of your work easily, but there are always
some nuances to figure out. If you have a simple design and help
implementation, it takes less time to figure out.

You may want to pop over to the TCS User's Group for more info from RH
experts... http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users

Art Campbell
         art.campbell at gmail.com
 "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a
redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Lynn Durell <Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks very much indeed for the responses.
>
> I think we'll need to wait to ensure everyone is upgrading to the same
> version then!
>
> Does ePublisher work in the same way as WebWorks, i.e. within the FM menu?
>
> If we did go down the Tech Comm Suite route instead of ePublisher, can we
> produce CHM files using RoboHelp? None of us here have used RoboHelp before
> - would it be a steep learning curve to do this?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Lynn
>
>
>
>  *Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>*
>
> 25/11/2009 17:31
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> Lynn Durell <Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk>
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> framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject
> Re: Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9
>
>
>
>
> Answers cut in....
>
> Art Campbell
>            *art.campbell at gmail.com* <art.campbell at gmail.com>
>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and
> a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>                                                      No disclaimers apply.
>                                                               DoD 358
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Lynn Durell <*Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk*<Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My company is considering upgrading our FrameMaker from 7.1p114 to 9
> (yippee, we've never upgraded before!).
>
> We're all running Win XP.
>
>
> Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but do we open our v7.1 FM files in
> v9 and then save them as v9? Or is it more complicated than that?
>
> Yes, that's all there is to it, but you need to SaveAs MIF.
>
> Once our FM files are saved as v9, can any users still using v7.1 still
> read them (there's a chance our counterpart US office won't get the
> upgrade to v9)? Or would we need to save back as v7 for those rare
> occasions? Are there any known issues with doing this?
>
> You need to back save to a MIF format. The issues would be that any
> features in 9 would drop out in 7. If you use any foreign characters, that'd
> be a problem because 9 supports unicode characters and fonts, but 7 did not.
>
>
> We currently using WebWorks (WebWorks > AutoMap 2003 Client within FM
> menu) to produce CHM files. Will this be affected if we upgrade to v9?
>
> Webworks doesn't exist as a product any longer. It became ePublisher, and
> the current version is required to support FM9.
>
> You're likely to be better off financially by upgrading to the Tech Comm
> Suite so you can also get the current version of Acrobat and then switch to
> RoboHelp.
>
> When you buy a v9 licence, do you automatically get all the patches that
> are released?
>
> It depends on when Adobe updates their CDs to include the patches.
> Downloading them or using the built-in installer is pretty painless though.
>
> Any other tips for upgrading?
>
> Some people have reported font issues with really old font files.
>
> Can anyone confirm that v7.1 is no longer supported by Adobe?
>
> Support stopped when version 8 shipped several years ago.
>
> Thanks very much in advance for your help,
> Lynn
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