[Framers] Save as PDF with Windows 10 and FM 2015

[Frank Stearns]

Hi All -

Regarding the various "breakages" in Windows versions for a given 
FM feature...

There is one solution that could be permanent or accessed "in case of 
emergency": use an emulator. That is, run a virtual version of the 
desired OS inside the OS version you're forced to use.

I've been using Oracle's "VirtualBox" emulator for several years now, 
and there are other emulators out there as well. You can run just 
about anything inside of anything. You can have a measure of 
communication between the two environments. (I can copy and paste 
between environments, for example, and also elect to access host 
system hardware, such as USB and ethernet ports. You can also mount 
host file systems from within the virtual machine.)

In my case I have some very old (but vital) custom business 
applications that only run in XP or older -- but it all lives on a 
Win7 machine.

Recoding those old database apps to run in a newer OS, along with 
importing all that old data, would be prohibitively expensive. Running 
the old apps in an emulator costs next to nothing and no old code need 
be disturbed.

So, while I haven't checked, it's quite likely you could run a Win 7 
emulation hosted by Win10 -- all while sidestepping the Win10 
problems.

It's pretty slick. Install Virtualbox on the host machine; this 
brings up a window that *is* a machine that will run the OS you really 
want to use. Install the desired OS in the virtual machine and away 
you go.

Frank Stearns

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