Lynn, I haven't upgraded to FM9, yet. It might happen in the near future though.
In all the upgrades I have done with FrameMaker in the past, to get your documents updated just open and save. Everything should work just fine. As far as those members of your team that are staying on an earlier release, you would need to do a SaveAs FM7.x any documents that you send to them. You would need to do this each and every time, so getting everyone on the same version as soon as possible would save you some work. Also, if you use any of the new features of FM9, you will lose them when you SaveAs FM7.x. I don't use WebWorks, but if memory serves me, every time you upgrade FM you upgrade WebWorks. This can get pretty expensive if you have a lot of users. David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Durell Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:21 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9 Hi, My company is considering upgrading our FrameMaker from 7.1p114 to 9 (yippee, we've never upgraded before!). We're all running Win XP. Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but do we open our v7.1 FM files in v9 and then save them as v9? Or is it more complicated than that? Once our FM files are saved as v9, can any users still using v7.1 still read them (there's a chance our counterpart US office won't get the upgrade to v9)? Or would we need to save back as v7 for those rare occasions? Are there any known issues with doing this? We currently using WebWorks (WebWorks > AutoMap 2003 Client within FM menu) to produce CHM files. Will this be affected if we upgrade to v9? When you buy a v9 licence, do you automatically get all the patches that are released? Any other tips for upgrading? Can anyone confirm that v7.1 is no longer supported by Adobe? Thanks very much in advance for your help, Lynn
