Is FM11 completely backward compatible with FM10?

[Alan Houser]

Adobe has changed the FrameMaker binary file format with every 
FrameMaker release since 7.2. On average, this means a new binary file 
format every 18 months (the length of the historical FrameMaker release 
cycle).

FrameMaker has maintained forward compatibility (each release opens 
binary files from all previous releases), but backwards compatibility is 
tedious.

If you are working with FrameMaker binary files, you will need to "save 
as FM10" from FM11. This is non-trivial, especially when working with 
large numbers of files.

If you are working with XML files, you may have complete backwards 
compatibility.

I hope this helps!

-Alan
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Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
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412-450-0532

On 5/5/15 1:11 PM, Jim Duszynski wrote:
>
> Happy Tuesday Framers!
>
> We are adding a writer and current have FM10. I want to buy FM10 or 
> FM11 but am not sure if FM11 is completely backward compatible with 
> FM10. Can anyone verify that the FM working files are interchangeable 
> between FM11 & FM10, with no special save to FM10 steps? I know 
> there’s a difference and I think that is DITA output with FM11 (Thanks 
> to Klaus for the FM feature history!). I’d appreciate hearing from 
> anyone who has been down this road before me.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> */Jim Duszynski/*
>
> Technical Writer
> (719) 884-3787
>
> /"Don't write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot 
> possibly be misunderstood." /(Robert Louis Stevenson)
>
>

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