Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

[Scott White]

In my line of work of building catalogs, this upgrade has been a big  
disappointment. We upgraded for the sole purpose of using 4-color  
processing that supposedly this version supported. And it does to some  
extent.
However, it does not support spot color or tints even though  
documentation suggests otherwise. Oh sure, if I print my own  
separations out, but that is not what printers need, they want  
composites. I have had two clients upgrade because of the 4-color  
support and still they can't do what they want. They assumed, like I,  
that 4-color means also spot color and tint. So now I have to listen  
to them complain to me. Again when you assume....
The PDF creator is also very buggy and can not be trusted when  
creating pdfs for print. I still must distill a file and then use  
acrobat distiller to get the results I expect and my printer needs.
So I have this iMac that I will continue run Frame 7 on so I can get  
true color plates and color support. It sure befuddles me that the  
leader in graphic and desktop publishing software   can not get  
Framemaker right in this regards.




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


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On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Alexandra Wilowska wrote:

> I haven't got as far as FM9, but the upgrade from FM7.2 to FM8 was  
> well
> worth it for me because of its support of Boolean operators in  
> condition
> expressions. I use conditions a lot and this feature (in conjunction  
> with
> FrameScript - the standalone Boolean condition functionality in FM8  
> isn't
> useful enough on its own) simplified my workflow greatly, more than
> justifying the upgrade cost. (Plus I happened to coincide with the  
> TCS1
> release so upgrading to the suite was a bonus). I haven't yet felt  
> the need
> to upgrade further, though.
>
>
>
> Alexandra Wilowska
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:32 -0600
>
> From: Jim Duszynski <JimDuszynski at SkylineProducts.com>
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> Subject: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?
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> Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using  
> FM9 trial
> now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the  
> c0st to my
> management.
>
>
>
> Another way to ask the question is, does anyone have any experience  
> with FM
> 7.2 and compatibility with computer system utilities as time goes by?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jim Duszynski
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