FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

[Robert Lauriston]

I wish I had a copy of FrameMaker 8, it is in many ways superior to
later versions, especially if you prefer keyboard shortcuts to the
mouse. Adobe layered a badly designed UI on top in FM9, the new UI
broke a lot of things, they never fixed them. They've added some
useful features but fundamentally it hasn't changed much since FM8
(which does have Unicode support).

People are successfully running FM8 on Windows 7, personally I'd try
it before switching to a newer version.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, MacDonald, Helen
<hmacdonald at ptitechnologies.com> wrote:
> 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?
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>
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> What issues might I have?
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> Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thank you for your time,
>
>
>
> Helen MacDonald
>
> PTI Technologies Inc.
>
>
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