Hello, Rick, we're running Framemaker 8 and 9 on our Intel-Macs with Parallels 5 in a Virtual Machine with Windows XP. I also tried Window 7 Ultimate 64 bit, but had problems with the creation of PDFs with Acrobat 9 (Pro Extended, all patches applied).
Parallels Coherence-mode is great, in it you don't see any Windows desktop anymore, the open Windows programs are fleeting like Mac-programs on the desktop and you can place them freely anywhere on the desktop (or your second monitor). First I tried to run the Virtual Machines with the Open Source program VirtualBox but was not able to activate my second monitor in it. And in Frame it's better to have one for all the menus or pods... So now it's nearly feeling like Framemaker on the mac (apart from the keyboard shortcuts in Windows. With some of them you may break your fingers). In the last weeks I had massive problems to create PDFs with bookmarks out of Frame 8 or 9 with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Acrobat crashed with some files, even though the same chapter/file in another language made no problem (so I don't think it has anything to to with the graphics). Creating PDFs without bookmarks were working. But printing on Windows in a postcript file and than distilling it on the Mac with Acrobat 9 Pro into a PDF works fine. Sounds a little strange to me, but it's a workaround thats keep me on the run without spending time (that I don't have) in troubleshooting... Andr? -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Andr? B?nat GeDok Kurztusch e.K. Bonusstrasse 5 21079 Hamburg Tel.: 040/ 36 97 19 -45 Fax: 040/ 67 30 46 53 email: boenat at gedok.com HP: www.gedok.com HR Hamburg HRB 85 992
