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I've had differences of opinion and experience with others over the
stability of FrameMaker 12 versus 11 (or previous releases).
Stability appears to vary widely with different source files,
practices, computing/network environment, etc. For example, I have a
client who had a stable platform with FrameMaker 11, but is in tears
because FrameMaker 12 crashes so frequently and unpredictably.<br>
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Historically, FrameMaker's sweet spot has been as a workgroup tool
... deployed to multiple seats within an organization. But Adobe has
always sold FrameMaker as a desktop tool. And Adobe's insistence
that "everybody migrate every 18 months" goes against workgroup
requirements of stability and predictability.<br>
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Having said that, I like FrameMaker 12. I just wish it were easier
to maintain workgroups on older versions (including availability of
new licenses for older versions), for organizations that wish to
maintain a stable, predictable environment and workflow.<br>
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-Alan<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/5/15 1:53 PM, Art Campbell wrote:<br>
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contribution... but you may not be able buy 11, unless you're
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">FM 12 is faster and
more stable than 11, IMHO, so you may want to go there for
everyone, and 13 is likely to be in development.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Jim
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Tuesday Framers!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are adding a writer and current
have FM10. I want to buy FM10 or FM11 but am not sure
if FM11 is completely backward compatible with FM10.
Can anyone verify that the FM working files are
interchangeable between FM11 & FM10, with no
special save to FM10 steps? I know there’s a
difference and I think that is DITA output with FM11
(Thanks to Klaus for the FM feature history!). I’d
appreciate hearing from anyone who has been down this
road before me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Jim Duszynski</i></b><span
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style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Technical
Writer
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value="+17198843787" target="_blank">(719)
884-3787</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">"Don't
write merely to be understood. Write so that you
cannot possibly be misunderstood."
</span></i><span
style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">(Robert
Louis Stevenson)</span><span
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