[Framers] Framemaker 2017 save backwards

Thu Jul 13 08:26:07 PDT 2017

Thank you, everyone who responded. As usual, the group membership's knowledge and experience, as well as willingness to share, is invaluable.

Pat

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Framemaker 2017 save backwards

As I said in the saveAs Mif Re: Framemaker 2017 save backwards topic, I have a FrameScript that saves to MIF8, MIF10, MIF11, and MIF12, as well as to FM8, 10, and 11. I think it's based on one of the example scripts Rick shared a few years back, although I've expanded it to additional MIF formats. It adds a drop-down to the menu bar that works with both books and individual files, and I can share it. (And yes, I asked Rick about that a couple years back and he was okay with me sharing it.)

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To follow the KISS principle:
>
>    - If someone on '17 saves as either flavor of MIF, the file that is
>    created is backward compatible with earlier revs.
>    - All features not supported in the earlier revs are discarded.
>
> So AFAIK, there is no reason to make your new employee jump through 
> hoops
> -- just do the Save as MIF when she needs to export something for a 
> team share.
>
> If y'all do FrameScript, you could run up a script that works on 
> files, book contents, or directories to convert all FM 17 files to MIF 
> like once a day, at the end of the day and write the files to a 
> subdirectory or other location.
>
>
>
>
> Art Campbell
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>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Pat Christenson < 
> Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi -
> >
> > We have a new employee and her FrameMaker license is for 2017. The 
> > rest
> of
> > us are on FM 12 but will be upgrading, although I don't know when.
> >
> > I looked at the 2017 user guide and it says you can save as 2015. It 
> > doesn't mention 2012. I just want to verify this with the group 
> > before I write up instructions for our new user.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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