FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version

[Davis, David]

Unless you are just using FrameMaker as a hobby,
I would go for the current version (Frame12).
Trying to deliver work on an obsolete unsupported version asking for trouble.
For instance, you might need to open a .fm file from a colleague - and if that file is from Frames 9, 10, 11 and 12, you can't.
A Microsoft update patch might break something in Frame8, and it won't be fixed.
And you will also be missing out on various new features (Google "What's New FrameMaker  N" where N = 9 to 12 ;)  )

David

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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:21:25 -0700
From: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
To: "MacDonald, Helen" <hmacdonald at ptitechnologies.com>,
        "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version
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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,
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