Hi, Framers,
Apologies for a somewhat long post, but I would really like some input. We are
contemplating finally upgrading from our Frame 7.1 (yep, had it for 17 years)
to the newest version (Frame 2019). Our version of Frame has been ridiculously
stable and its amazing features have served
Yup, long post alright!
I would suggest that you find a non-production machine and install a trial copy
of FM2019 - make sure you immediately perform updates on it (just because you
just downloaded it, doesn't mean that it's up to date - it's like version 1.0 -
there's been 5 patches so far).
I don't have FrameMaker 2019, but I'll answer a couple of these.
4. The scroll wheel issue was fixed long ago. Version 8?
8. Frame will open old Frame files, but once you save them, they will be
in a new version that will no longer be openable by FrameMaker 7,
without conversion. I believe FM
I believe most of the bugs you're referring to are long fixed.
What i think is likely to be a larger issue and that you don't address is
the hardware and operating system on which you're running your, uh, antique
software.
If you're going to the current version, which I'd recommend, you're
I second the recommendation of installing 2019 on a non-production machine.
The weird, nonstandard UI introduced in FM9 takes some getting used
to, to put it kindly.
It would probably be a good idea to evaluate InDesign as well. That's
the standard for publishing.
Unicode support was added in FM8. However, I don't believe that FM requires
the font support Unicode; Adobe certainly has quite a few fonts that aren't
Unicode. As long as it's installed on the machine, it should be available.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:39 PM Jeff Coatsworth <
10. Yes though we walk through the valley of asking price, we fear all
auto-corrections.
Seriously, if you will ever think of converting to a future version of FM
but retain the earlier version and use the same files in both versions, be
religious about identifying the creator version, and
