Amen to that. Or a widescreen monitor. Nadine
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: FM9 getting started > To: "Lynn Durell" <Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk> > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 9:32 AM > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> > >> You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > >> > >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >> > >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to > >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > >> or visit > >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > >> > >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. > Visit > >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and > info. > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as generic668 at yahoo.ca. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. > Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and > info. > >
