Frame 11 catastrophe -- unable to open old Frame files

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

FYI -- one of the hallmarks of FrameMaker is the stability of its file format over the years. As with the others who have previously posted, I have opened very old versions of FrameMaker (e.g. 3.5) in FrameMaker 9 while still in the translation industry.

Incidentally, if you take a current or recent version of FrameMaker, you can save an unstructured FM doc to MIF, and then open that MIF in an older version of FrameMaker. Although you will get many error messages, you will only lose any "newer" formatting or doc features not supported in the newer version. The document content will remain intact.

Note: save as MIF and opening in an older version is not intended nor supported as a "round trip" between versions, but it does work well.

p.s. if the files you were working with are in some sort of *.doc format (Word) you may try saving them to RTF, then open that in FrameMaker -- you find that it will work better.


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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:48 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Frame 11 catastrophe -- unable to open old Frame files

FrameMaker 11 is backward compatible with old .FM files and FrameMaker doesn't have the capability to create a Word .DOC file. FrameMaker can save as a .RTF file, which Word can read-- but various objects and FrameMaker features will be lost in translation. Most importantly, saving as .RTF won't overwrite the original .FM file. So if your .FM files are gone and something is there in their place, blame a human being, not FrameMaker.

Mike Wickham


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