Which FMaker version?

[Art Campbell]

I'd go a little further.

If you're in production and want the fewest problems, go with the
current release, 10.

You really don't have a choice, but the good news is that it's built
to run well on W7 (and does, most of the time), and has a number of
tools and features that make writing life easier. DO NOT try to cut a
corner and skip upgrading Acrobat (assuming you use the full version)
to X.

Do look into FM's new licensing / maintenance / upgrade program...

Art Campbell
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Steve Rickaby
<srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At 02:04 +0000 12/8/11, visualbistro at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>What are the general thoughts from this "community?" What are the PROs and CONs? What should I recommend? We are a small startup business (check out <http://www.agilyx.com>www.agilyx.com), and have to keep an eye on the budget, but we want to create professional results in everything we do.
>
> As Peter suggested, older version would only be occasionally available from the likes of eBay. However, I went to FrameMaker 7 on Mac via that route and it gave me no problems. At some point I will try to go to v 8 for Windows via the same route, when I upgrade my main Mac to one of the Intel-based models.
>
> I have no direct experience of versions after 7, but others have said they prefer FrameMaker 8. v 9 introduced the new Adobe-style palette-based UI, to general derision, but DITA support got better across 8 -> 9 -> 10. Conditional text was improved significantly with one of the version later than 7 to allow the use of Boolean conditions, but I'm not sure whether those came in with v 8 or v 9.
>
> If you don't need DITA/structure, consider looking for a second-hand full copy of FrameMaker 8, but see what other opinions you get.
>
> --
> Steve
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