In my line of work of building catalogs, this upgrade has been a big
disappointment. We upgraded for the sole purpose of using 4-color
processing that supposedly this version supported. And it does to some
extent.
However, it does not support spot color or tints even though
documentation suggests otherwise. Oh sure, if I print my own
separations out, but that is not what printers need, they want
composites. I have had two clients upgrade because of the 4-color
support and still they can't do what they want. They assumed, like I,
that 4-color means also spot color and tint. So now I have to listen
to them complain to me. Again when you assume....
The PDF creator is also very buggy and can not be trusted when
creating pdfs for print. I still must distill a file and then use
acrobat distiller to get the results I expect and my printer needs.
So I have this iMac that I will continue run Frame 7 on so I can get
true color plates and color support. It sure befuddles me that the
leader in graphic and desktop publishing software can not get
Framemaker right in this regards.
Scott White
Media Production & EBC Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
[email protected]
On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Alexandra Wilowska wrote:
I haven't got as far as FM9, but the upgrade from FM7.2 to FM8 was
well
worth it for me because of its support of Boolean operators in
condition
expressions. I use conditions a lot and this feature (in conjunction
with
FrameScript - the standalone Boolean condition functionality in FM8
isn't
useful enough on its own) simplified my workflow greatly, more than
justifying the upgrade cost. (Plus I happened to coincide with the
TCS1
release so upgrading to the suite was a bonus). I haven't yet felt
the need
to upgrade further, though.
Alexandra Wilowska
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:32 -0600
From: Jim Duszynski <[email protected]>
Subject: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using
FM9 trial
now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the
c0st to my
management.
Another way to ask the question is, does anyone have any experience
with FM
7.2 and compatibility with computer system utilities as time goes by?
Thanks!
Jim Duszynski
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