Finally Upgrading to FM 9.0
Owen, Clint
Clint.Owen at craneaerospace.com
Tue Jul 13 13:40:50 PDT 2010
Art,
Thanks for the input.
We in Tech Pubs are all currently using FM 7.0 or 7.2, and would all
upgrade to 9.0. Some other users in the company, such as a few engineers
who use FM, have already received FM 9.0 because they control their own
budgets. This has started to cause some of the problems that you
mentioned. That is mainly what is driving our upgrade.
May main question was the one about different versions of Acrobat. So
far is has not seemed to cause too many problems.
The company would prefer to do the mass upgrade on FM only and continue
to buy single copies of Acrobat as needed. Of course, we would prefer
the suite if we could talk the nickel squeezers into paying for it.
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | +1
425 743 8674 | Fax: +1 425 743 8113
________________________________
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:24 PM
To: Owen, Clint
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Finally Upgrading to FM 9.0
This has been discussed a lot, so you may want to do some Googling for
existing info.
My take on it would be to get everyone on the same platform if at all
possible, especially if you use any special characters because trying to
go back and forth between versions using MIF is doable... but a real
PITA if you have to convert between old character sets and Unicode,
which has been the standard since 8.
You're right, in that you can work well with FM without full Acrobat
support, but again you're going to run into a problem trying to maintain
compatibility with older FM and Acrobat versions. You'll especially miss
out on electronic review support if you try to mix versions. So that
would be another argument to get people to FM 9 and use the built-in
functionality.
TCS, by the way, is at version 2, not 4. But because Acrobat and
Photoshop have already revved since that release, I'd expect either a
point or new full release sometime within the next 6 months or so. And
if you do check it out, if you have to upgrade two of the applications
included in the TCS, it's usually more cost effective to just go to the
Suite and get more applications and hidden inter-program hooks that
aren't activated in stand-alone programs.
Art
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Owen, Clint
<Clint.Owen at craneaerospace.com> wrote:
Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from FM
7.0 to
9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4.
First, do you see any problems with just opening our old
unstructured
templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't
expect there
would be any.
Second, various members of our group use different versions of
Acrobat,
from 6.0 standard to 9.0 pro, mostly 7.0 pro. Is there any
compelling
reason or technical necessity for us all to upgrade to Acrobat
9.0? I
know that FM will create PDF on its own without Acrobat, but
seem to
remember that some or many features are lost in doing so.
Overhead money
is still tight, so the need to update Acrobat at the same time
as FM
would probably not be a deal breaker, but might cause a delay.
Thanks in advance,
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace &
Electronics | +1
425 743 8674 | Fax: +1 425 743 8113
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