[Framers] Mif2Go and FM 2015

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Okay, I did a little digging in the source code for m2rbook … and think his last fix (as per my earlier e-mail below) may work for FM 2015 … but am not really sure yet!

In one file, where Jeremy checked for the FrameMaker version number returned by the Adobe FDK, he had code to do a specific check for the version of FM.

From what I can tell so far, the last change he made for FM 12 stopped doing an explicit check for an exact version for FM 12 and above.

I.e., the code says “if (FrameVersion >= 12) {“ rather than the other ones that look like “if (FrameVersion == 11) {“ and “if (FrameVersion == 10) {“, etc. This variable is set by a call to the Adobe FDK and I assume that FM 2015 returns the value 13 (but this is a guess).

This means that he was assuming, for the moment, that the next version of FrameMaker did not need any special code (he had not seen FM 2015, of course …)

So … I think it may work. But, please try it and let me know! If it does not, I will investigate further.

By the way, one side note: it looks like the very last release of Mif2Go will not work with versions older than FM 7 … even though Mif2Go was available for FM 5.5 and FM 6. It is possible that Jeremy took the code support for those older versions away, since nobody(?) was using them by 2013.

Z

From: Syed Zaeem Hosain
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 10:43 PM
To: 'John Sgammato' <john.sgammato at actifio.com>
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: [Framers] Mif2Go and FM 2015

John, that would be great, thanks!

And just to remind people of the specifics: there is a zip file “m2rbook115.zip” in the mif2go.com downloads site, under “Beta Components”.

This ZIP contains a single DLL file called “m2rbook.dll” that must replace the older one (typically in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12\fminit\Plugins”) for FM 12 to work.

I am not sure why this simple fix works yet. The code contents are essentially identical to the old one … the properties on the version number are the only difference that I can see with a byte-for-byte comparison.

Some investigation is needed to see if this will work for FM 2015 or needs another fix. Since I am not running FM 2015, I cannot test this.

Regards,

Z

From: John Sgammato [mailto:john.sgammato at actifio.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 10:09 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>>
Cc: Ben Allums <allums at webworks.com<mailto:allums at webworks.com>>; framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] Mif2Go and FM 2015

I've got a major release next week, but after that I will do the full test. I need Mif2Go to work with FM2015, else I'll have to save everything back to FM12 to get the content into our Salesforce knowledgebase.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>> wrote:
For those of you who used Mif2Go successfully with FM 12 (with the changed file that is needed, as described on the web site), have you tried this _same_ fix with FM 2015 yet?

Migrating from FM 11 to FM 2015 is not the issue - since FM 11 did not need that fix.

Z