<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the tips.<div>It turns out that the laptop will only be available at the beginning of April (it is something that someone is giving back).</div><div>So I will keep this all in mind.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Another issue is that I have added various small add-ons to Frame over the years, and I have to reconstruct everything that I did.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:05:21 +1300</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">From: Helen Borrie <</span><a href="mailto:helebor@iinet.net.au" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">helebor@iinet.net.au</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">At 12:47 a.m. 7/02/2014, Carrie Baker wrote:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>Hello,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>I don't think I am the only person with oldish software.....</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>I work in a fairly small company, as a single technical writer.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>I have FrameMaker 7, and use with Acrobat 7.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I have FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 8 (jumped over from FM6 and Acro6, no upgrade path available at that point, since the "new age" Adobe actively prevents it as soon as there is an upgrade-ineligible newer version on the market).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I started out with the same doubts as you. The first installation of Win7 I had was on my 32-bit laptop. I had retained all the FM and Acrobat updates as a hedge against the historical horrors of trying to reinstall on WinXP after a disk death. After installing from the licensed CDs I carefully applied the updates, one by one, to test my doubts, always rebooting after each one. I ended up with a perfect installation, not quick, but effective. No "XP mode".</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Encouraged, I followed the same route when I went to install on my development box, a clean install on a 64-bit Win7. I expected dramas. Eighteen months down the track, there have been none. Both products installed into Program Files (X86) and the updates knew where to find them.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">With your FM7 and Acro7, I suggest << Just do it >>. "It will either work or it won't", as my wise old Norfolk mother-in-law would have said. If it doesn't, you can run the Uninstall and then download CCleaner from </span><a href="http://www.filehippo.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">www.filehippo.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">, to get rid of the rubbish left behind.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Just a point to those encouraging Carrie to "install as 64-bit" - there's no way you can make a 32-bit application install or run as 64-bit.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Another point - deriving from the earlier horror experiences of reinstalling on XP - is to install Acrobat FIRST (apply the updates later) and make sure the FM installer doesn't install Distiller or any other Acrobat components. AFAIR, there's a dialog box that tells you there is an older version of Distiller already installed....you have to tell it to ignore that "problem" because it's not a problem, just bad logic in the installer.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Helen</span><br></div>-- <br>Carrie Baker<br><a href="mailto:carriebak@gmail.com">carriebak@gmail.com</a>
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