It should work fine, although you may have to run the installer as Admin. I ran it under the W7 betas and didn't have any problems, and I've run both 7 and 9 on production W7 without incident, so it shouldn't be any kind of problem.
And to ensure compatibility, I'm not 100% sure I'd trust whatever the IT guys come up with as far as CDs go -- there's a "fixed for Vista" version of 8 on the Adobe download site that I'd use before I installed from an old CD, although I'd certainly go with whatever key code they provide. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Gang, > > Does anyone have solid information on whether or not FrameMaker 8.x is > compatible with Windows 7? > One of the engineers in a group I work with just got a shiny new laptop with > Windows 7 (so far our corporate IT people are only allowing Windows 7 on > brand-new machines), and the IT folks insisted that she has to install > FrameMaker 9 rather than FrameMaker 8 because FM8 is not compatible. Of > course, this now causes file compatibility issues since everybody else in the > group still has FrameMaker 8 and can't get FM9 yet because the IT group's > "purchase software" website only offers FM8. Yes, I know she can do a Save As > to save files she works on in FM8 file format, but she tells me that > FrameMaker requires her to change the filename when she does so, and that > causes issues with our version control system. I'd love to have some solid > information I can forward to the IT group to convince them that it really is > OK to install FrameMaker 8 on a Windows 7 machine. (Or I'd like to know that > it is definitively *not* OK so that I can work with this engineer to come up > with a practical a > nd foolproof workaround.) > I tried searching for compatibility information on Adobe's website, and the > closest I could come were a couple of pages that told me that FM9 is "now > compatible" with Windows 7. Useless. And I tried searching Microsoft's > website, but the compatibility spreadsheet they provide for "IT pros" doesn't > list *any* version of FrameMaker among the 10543 entries, and their Windows 7 > Compatibility Center only lists FrameMaker 9, and only with the indication > "no information available". Even more useless. > -Fred Ridder > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
