[Framers] FM2019 and ixgen?

[Harding, Dan]

Thanks Rick,

I received a reply offlist from a gentleman at Adobe saying:

" Hi Dan
You may wanna check the dependencies of the executable dependencies. We removed old icu and .net libraries across both 32 and 64 bit (FrameMaker)"

So if I am interpreting correctly, ixgen may rely on resources that are no longer included with FM, so those resources will need to be rolled into ixgen and recompiling a new executable would be needed for FM2019 compatibility... it may be more complicated than that; I'm not a developer.

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois.edu at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen?

Hi Dan,

None of the plugins that were originally made for 32-bit FrameMaker will
work with 64-bit FrameMaker 2019. They have to be recompiled by the
developer.

If you don't need all of the features of IXgen, you may want to consider an
ExtendScript solution. ExtendScript is built into FrameMaker 10 and higher
and the scripts should survive from version-to-version, including 64-bit
FrameMaker 2019. I have rewritten most of my plugins as scripts and all of
them work with FrameMaker 2019 and all versions down to 10.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
rick at frameexpert.com
585-729-6746
www.frameexpert.com/store/



-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On
Behalf Of Harding, Dan
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:58 AM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
<framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen?

Good morning all,

I have an email in to Frank Stearns (creator of ixgen) about this, but in
the interim I want to get some other data points:

Has anyone been able to get ixgen to work with FrameMaker 2019?

When I run the ixgen installer, it does not see the installation of 64-bit
FrameMaker, presumably because ixgen is a 32-bit application, so installing
it under 64-bit FM is likely out.

When I run the installer and select 32-bit FrameMaker 2019, it installs
successfully, however when I launch 32-bit Frame 2019, I get the following
error in the FM console:


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Cannot initialize API client C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker
2019 (32 Bit)\ixgen\bin\ixgen.dll.

Check for errors in the APIClients section of the maker.ini file in
FrameMaker install location or your %appdata% folder, verify that the client
program exists, and make sure you have enough swap space to run the client.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------


I checked the maker.ini file and didn't see anything untoward.

It may be that FM has changed enough "under the hood" that ixgen is no
longer compatible... which puts a real crimp in my production workflow. I'd
prefer not to go back to FM2017 at this point.

Thanks,

-Dan
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