FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

[Shmuel Wolfson]

F8 and F9 are working again in FM11. There is a slight delay the first 
time you use one of them, but other than that they are OK.

Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133

On 16-May-14 6:21 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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