Murray,
We upgraded in April 08 and use unstructured FM only. Had a few initial
problems with FM8 crashing (once a day). New patches seems to have
taken care of that, I don't even remember my last crash. Just make sure
you get all the patches.
The FM8 User Guide tells you to round trip to mif if opening files older
than FM7. I did this as a precautionary.
Couple of additional changes/improvements:
* Vista and Office 2007 compatible (FM6 was Office 2000 I believe) Much
better Word filter.
* Ability to lock master page usage to paragraph tags (great for locking
wide tables to landscape pages)
* Option to display a Tab bar (similar to a Tab bar in a web browser)
* Can embed 3D flash
* While the Undo History is an improvement over the single Undo in FM6,
I was a little disappointed that actions such as saving a file clear the
Undo history. As Dave mentioned, you get a warning that can be turned
off.
* My mouse scroll wheel didn't work in FM6, but works in FM8.
Bottom line, we're very happy with the upgrade.
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Jeff Schweiner
Hardware Engineering Writer
Cray Inc.
(715) 726-4801
From: Dave Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Great Leap
To: Murray Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
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Hi Murray
We also upgraded from FM6 to FM8 (on Win XP and 2000). I don't remember
encountering any problems. I tested FM8 for our Tech Pubs group, and I
made the following notes about what I noticed was different:
* The Page Up and Page Down keys move the file up or down by one
screen, not by one page. If you don't like this you can use the
customui.cfg file to change it.
* The Print > PDF Setup dialog has more options.
* "Document Info" (for a PDF file) is no longer set from the Print
> PDF Setup dialog. To enter Document Info in FM8:
o from an open file select File > File Info
o from a book select the file(s) and select File > File info,
or right click on the selected file(s) and select File Info.
* When selecting a font from the drop-down list in Paragraph
Designer > Default Font > Family, you get a pop-up showing the
font name in that font.
* The file names in the book window are in a smaller font, or else
they just look smaller because they're not bold anymore.
* The page background in an open file now picks up the "Window"
background colour from your Windows colour scheme.
* The tool bar icons are slightly different.
* If you get sick of the "Undo history will be lost" warning popping
up every time you close and save a file, you can turn it off in
File > Preferences > General.
I don't think you will have any problems, but you should probably do
some testing first.
Cheers
Dave
Murray Moore wrote, on 2/12/2008 7:53 a.m.:
> I have an opportunity to leap several versions and upgrade from FM 6
to FM 8.
>
> My manager wants to know "Do you see any issues migrating to 8 - it is
> seamless? All our old files are compatible?"
>
> Any gotchas about which to beware?
>
> /\/\
> Murray
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