Frame 9 buggy - Frame 10 as bad? Frame 11 on horizon?

[rebecca officer]

Hi Gay

We've had Frame 10 crashes fairly consistently on a small number of files when changing conditional text display settings. It's been a major pain!

We seem to have worked round it by doing all of these:
- remove CT from the first page of the doc, esp CT that changes the number of pages
- remove conditioned rows from tables
- wash through MIF

Other people reported success by separating out the CT pod, but that only worked for us if we closed all other pods. That made Frame near-unusable.

I'm going to upgrade us to Frame 11 as soon as it's out - and Frame 10's been so buggy that I'll be asking Adobe for a discount.

Cheers
Rebecca


>>> "Gay Alson" <GALSON at epicor.com> 01/05/12 7:01 PM >>>
Hello Framers,

I use conditional text a lot.  A LOT.  Frame 9 seems to crash on a
daily, sometimes hourly, basis. Others in my department haven't
experienced this behavior, but don't use conditional text like I do. The
".recover" files drive me crazy because I always feel I should compare
them to the source .fm file, but even FM warns against using .recover
files. And of all the times I laboriously made comparisons, I found
exactly once when the source doc was missing something in the .recover
file.

Anyway, I'm not really writing to vent, more to ask if Frame 10 is any
better when it comes to conditional text - my brief research leads me to
believe 10 fixes a lot of the problems in 9 but introduces new ones. So
this may be a case of the known devil... 

There's a possibility we can upgrade soon, but now I'm wondering if we
should wait another year (?) till FM 11.  Frankly, I lobbied so long and
hard to make the move from Word to FM (7.2) but ever since upgrading to
9, I've regretted it.

Parenthetically, we're also curious about the output to various versions
of online help in 10.

Any opinions or experiences you care to share will be received with
interest and thanks.

~~Gay

 

 

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