Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

[Robert Lauriston]

I own FrameMaker 6, Acrobat 8, Photoshop 5, Illustrator 7, and various
more obscure apps of similar vintage. They all work fine for my
purposes and upgrading would be not just a waste of money but a waste
of time having to get used to UI changes.

Buying a newer version of something because I needed it to work with a
client's docs is the main reason I've upgraded, but I haven't
freelanced with my own software in a long time.

Unicode was added in FrameMaker 8, which remains the high-water mark
for that codeline.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Davis, David <David.Davis at invensys.com> wrote:
> The thing is, Robert,
> FM7 and Acrobat 7 have problems with more than just Windows 7,
> and if someone's earning their living using them, my advice to them would be to update their tools to something more recent, rather than compromise their operating system!
> Even on a basic level, if you only have FM7, you are not going to be able to open any FrameMaker docs you get sent from people with FM7.1, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12!
> And you don't have Unicode support (that was FM 7.2, I think?).