Purchase question

[Lea Rush]

I tend to disagree. When I got my Win8 laptop (I do software QA as well as TW), I found that Frame 8 crashed with abandon. I now use Remote Desktop to my previous Vista machine to do what I need to do.

YYMV,
Lea

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Heiko Haida
Sent: June 19, 2015 5:16 AM
To: Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch; Framers
Subject: Re: Purchase question


Hello Bertrand,

did you check to work with the "Compatibility mode" setting? This is set for the "exe"-file(s) of older applications and sometimes it may help -- you would choose the "Window XP" mode here.

Another problem is, that older applications often require admin-rights for certain folders like the application folder.
Maybe you can check if starting FrameMaker 7 with admin-rights may help.

I think that even FM 7.2 should run on a Win 8 system...

Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin



Bertrand Meyer:
This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). That's not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all I saw on Adobe's page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages?

Thanks in advance,

-- Bertrand Meyer
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