FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

[Jeff Coatsworth]

You've already done the important step of testing out your FM8 material in a 12 trial - your biggest changes will be the new UI and perhaps old fonts - Unicode came in there somewhere around FM7/8.

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of MacDonald, Helen
Sent: May-14-14 12:54 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

Hi Framers,

I am presently using structured FrameMaker version 8 on Windows XP. (And we seem to have lost the original software disks.)  Writing commercial airlines manuals using a template created for FrameMaker 6. And using SDI software to create the cgm graphics from eps files.

I have not had any problems using the template but plugins do not work.  I have not tried to output as XML so I don't know how that will go.  I have only been using FrameMaker for a little over a year and am the only TW in my company.

My company wants to move me off of XP to Windows 7.  And is looking to upgrade the FrameMaker to either version 10, 11, or 12. (These are the versions they can find to buy legal licenses with.)

Does anyone know if there will be any issues with a template created for FrameMaker 6 running on these newer versions?  Since I am fairly new to FM I don't cause myself extra grief.

I have opened a file (that I created in FM 8) in a trial version of FM 12 and it looks okay but I don't know if there are things going on behind the scenes. Are there things I should be looking for?

What issues might I have?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time,

Helen MacDonald
PTI Technologies Inc.

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