Right. I am sorry I didn't get it, but yes, even with the same architecture (32-bit) sometimes plugins have to be recompiled with new releases of FrameMaker. That is the main reason I got away from plugins after ExtendScript was added to FrameMaker. I got tired of having different versions of my plugins for different versions of FrameMaker.
-----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Harding, Dan Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:59 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen? Hi Rick, Just to clarify from my original post, IXGen won't install at all under 64-bit FM. Installing it under 32-bit FM is successful, but will not run and gives the error message I originally referred to (missing resources). So at this point it's a no-go with either version of FM2019 until there is a new version(s) of IXGen. I'll send you an email offlist to discuss alternatives that may work with FM2019. Thanks, -Dan -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:55 AM To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen? Hi Dan, Yes, the IXGen developers will need to compile a version of IXGen that will be compatible with 64-bit FrameMaker. There is nothing that you can do at your end. You could try installing the 32-bit version of FrameMaker 2019, but older plugins still may not work. I don't recommend this anyway, because being 64-bit is one of the attractive "features" of 2019. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Harding, Dan Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:45 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen? Thanks Rick, I received a reply offlist from a gentleman at Adobe saying: " Hi Dan You may wanna check the dependencies of the executable dependencies. We removed old icu and .net libraries across both 32 and 64 bit (FrameMaker)" So if I am interpreting correctly, ixgen may rely on resources that are no longer included with FM, so those resources will need to be rolled into ixgen and recompiling a new executable would be needed for FM2019 compatibility... it may be more complicated than that; I'm not a developer. -Dan -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:08 AM To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen? Hi Dan, None of the plugins that were originally made for 32-bit FrameMaker will work with 64-bit FrameMaker 2019. They have to be recompiled by the developer. If you don't need all of the features of IXgen, you may want to consider an ExtendScript solution. ExtendScript is built into FrameMaker 10 and higher and the scripts should survive from version-to-version, including 64-bit FrameMaker 2019. I have rewritten most of my plugins as scripts and all of them work with FrameMaker 2019 and all versions down to 10. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-729-6746 www.frameexpert.com/store/ -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Harding, Dan Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:58 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: [Framers] FM2019 and ixgen? Good morning all, I have an email in to Frank Stearns (creator of ixgen) about this, but in the interim I want to get some other data points: Has anyone been able to get ixgen to work with FrameMaker 2019? When I run the ixgen installer, it does not see the installation of 64-bit FrameMaker, presumably because ixgen is a 32-bit application, so installing it under 64-bit FM is likely out. When I run the installer and select 32-bit FrameMaker 2019, it installs successfully, however when I launch 32-bit Frame 2019, I get the following error in the FM console: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Cannot initialize API client C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2019 (32 Bit)\ixgen\bin\ixgen.dll. Check for errors in the APIClients section of the maker.ini file in FrameMaker install location or your %appdata% folder, verify that the client program exists, and make sure you have enough swap space to run the client. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- I checked the maker.ini file and didn't see anything untoward. It may be that FM has changed enough "under the hood" that ixgen is no longer compatible... which puts a real crimp in my production workflow. I'd prefer not to go back to FM2017 at this point. 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