5. Frame 11 catastrophe, framers Digest, Vol 89, Issue 10

[Robert Leif]

This example demonstrates that Frame needs to use a standard format. I
suggest EPUB using XHTML5 and CSS3. Adobe might be pleasantly surprised that
they could successfully compete against Microsoft Word. This leads to the
question of what are the capabilities of Frame 11 to import XML schemas
written in XSD.
Bob Leif
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 01:25:04 -0800
From: "Peter Schorer" <peteschorer at gmail.com>
To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Frame 11 catastrophe -- unable to open old Frame files
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A couple of days ago I found out that hundreds of the old Frame files I had
always been able to open through several versions of Frame, can no longer be
opened in Frame 11.  This has been confirmed by two Frame 11 experts.  For
me in my work, this is nothing short of a catastrophe.

 

Incredibly -- yet this too has been confirmed by Frame 11 experts -- those
old files have been converted into Microsoft Word files!  That wasn't done
by me, since I have never used MS Word in my life, and have certainly never
converted a Frame file into an MS Word file.

 

I can't possibly be the only long-time Frame user who has made this shocking
discovery.  Adobe/Frame management could fix the problem by simply allowing
all those old files to be opened as Text files.  This is how I always opened
them in the past.

 

Needless to say, prior to my buying Frame 11 last fall, Frame 11 Sales
mentioned not a word about old Frame files no longer being accessible.

 

I would like to hear from anyone who has run into this major problem. 

 

-- Peter Schorer

 

 

 

 

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 13:05:30 -0800
From: B2Streamlines/Bill & Bunny Kuhlman <bsquared at b2streamlines.com>
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Does a FrameMaker Reader/Viewer exist?
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Graeme,

We're running FrameMaker 7 Mac on a MacBook Pro 17 using SheepShaver. 
Works very well.

There is a very active Yahoo! group "wordperfectmac" which offers
SheepShaver install packages and information on more elaborate install
packages with WordPerfect included. It's not at all hard to add the
FrameMaker 7 app to that environment. Not an exceptional solution, but a
viable work-around.

Hope that helps.


>It does now. I can't open any of my 14 years worth of FM docs on the 
>Macs I spend most of my time on nowadays. Something like FrameViewer 
>would be very useful, just to remind myself of the content of the docs. 
>Not that I have the slightest expectation of Adobe ever considering 
>such a product.

     
Bill & Bunny Kuhlman
B2Streamlines
http://www.b2streamlines.com
RC Soaring Digest
http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com


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