Can FM 8.0 docs be converted to 7.0 docs?

[Combs, Richard]

Bill Swallow wrote:

> I believe Save-As only goes one rev back. Best course of action is to
> save as MIF and let the 7.x user open the MIF and save back to their
> version. Any enhanced features from the newer FM version will be
> ignored.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Garnier Garnier
> <garnier_framescript at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > Have a query. Before I attempt anything would like to know can I
> converrt Framemaker 8.0 documents to Framemaker 7.0 documents? If the
> answer is positive then what would be the ideal method of doing so?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and waiting for the response.

Saving from 8.0 format to 7.0 format _is_ going one rev back. FM 7.2 uses the 7.0 file format. And as someone else pointed out, FM 8 has a Save As 7.0 command (don't recall the exact wording, but it's there). Because of the encoding difference between the two versions (FM 8 introduced Unicode), there may be some minor issues -- a search of the archives would probably turn up some relevant posts -- but it should be relatively painless. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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