Computing Power, Conditional Text and FM9

[Alison Craig]

I should have included the fact that my documents have all been created in FM9.

I moved from MS Word to Frame - but I didn't import the data. I saved it all to text files, copied in the text from Notepad then formatted the FM9 docs from scratch. I had no intention of importing any invisible Word crap ;-))

Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Huntley Eshenroder [mailto:huntleye at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:15 PM
To: Alison Craig
Cc: FrameUsers List
Subject: Re: Computing Power, Conditional Text and FM9

I've encountered issues with docs that are from previous versions of
Frame. Often times Frame crashes when working in the conditional text
the first time. Saving to MIF first seems to help.

-Huntley.

On Friday, November 5, 2010, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:
> FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
> Unstructured
> OS: XP Pro with SP3
> FM Experience: 16 months
> Well-used "Extras": Acrobat Pro 7.1.0, Illustrator 12.0.1 (Creative Suite 2), Corel Paint Shop Pro 12.01, MS Visio 2007 SP2
>
>
> I've had some issues lately with Conditional Text misbehaving, ie, not appearing and disappearing when and as I tell it to. Usually, if I reboot and don't open any of my well-used "extras", everything behaves reasonably well - at least for a while.
>
> Note that I have a lot of Conditional Text as the Chapters (10) and Appendices (7) of my User Manual book constitute 5 different products (soon to be 6).
>
> As for the improperly displaying Conditional Text, these are the types of things I experience:
> - certain conditions don't completely "Hide" when told to
> - a condition left at "Show" actually hides *some* of it's text
> - when set to "Show" with "Condition Indicators" off, some of the text remains coloured.
>
>
> On paper, my system is significantly better than Adobe's FM9 requirements, however, in January my system will be 5 years old - so the system specs are a little misleading.
>
> Anyone have any ideas (either confirming my suspicions about system age/quality or about something else altogether)?
>
> Alison
>
>
> ADOBE REQUIREMENTS
> ===================
> - 1.0GHz or faster processor
> - Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended), Windows Vista(r) with Service Pack 1 or Windows(r) 7
> - 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
> - 1.1GB of available hard-disk space
> - DVD-ROM drive
> - 1,024x768 screen resolution
>
> MY (5-year old) SYSTEM
> ==================
> - Pentium 4 3GHz CPU
> - XP Pro with SP3
> - 2 Gb RAM
> - 5 - 20 Gb available hard-disk space at any given time
> - DVD-ROM drive
> - 23" wide screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080
>
>
> Alison Craig, Technical Writer
> Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
> Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
> E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>
>
>
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-- 
-Huntley