And a P.S.:
As long as your company is spending some bucks to upgrade to 9, GET THEM TO
SPRING FOR A SECOND MONITOR if you don't have one already.
Big productivity boost, especially with the new FM 9 UI because you can put
all the damn pallets in the second window...
Cheers,
Art
Art Campbell
art.campbell at 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, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>wrote:
> The user interface is likely to be the biggest thing you'll need to
> learn/re-learn, but nothing has gone away -- just several new tools added.
> So your 7 skills should transfer pretty easily.
>
> Things to be aware of:
>
> - FM adopted unicode character support in v 8, so you may have to redo
> some special characters. Note that full unicode support may require fonts
> that include unicode characters. Usually not a big deal, but something to
> watch.
> - If I were you, I'd make an archive copy of my 7 books as they are
> before converting any of them. I've also found that after converting them
> to
> the 9 file format, it's a good idea to save the files as MIF and then open
> and save those as .FM files. Cleans up any odd characters or anomalies.
> You
> can do this by the book with a free utility from Omsys.com that's included
> with their MIF2GO free eval. Stays on the system even if you don't buy.
> - Don't trust SaveAs PDF any further than you can throw it.
> - If you haven't already installed the Microsoft PS printer hotfix on
> your SP systems, do so:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909
> -- it applies to all PS printers, including the logical PDF.
>
>
> Art Campbell
> art.campbell at 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, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Lynn Durell <Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My company are about to upgrade us from FM7.1 to FM9.0 (Win XP).
>>
>> Can anyone point me to a getting started guide or similar for FM 9.0, or
>> other useful help for getting going with FM 9.0?
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Lynn
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