RE: Purchase question
I tend to disagree. When I got my Win8 laptop (I do software QA as well as TW), I found that Frame 8 crashed with abandon. I now use Remote Desktop to my previous Vista machine to do what I need to do. YYMV, Lea Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific www.astoria-pacific.com<http://www.astoria-pacific.com/> P: 800-536-3111, +1-503-657-3010 Please consider the environment before printing this email. `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸ ><º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><º> NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This communication is from Astoria-Pacific and is intended to be confidential and solely for the use of the persons or entities addressed above. If you are not an intended recipient, be aware that the information contained herein may be protected from unauthorized use by privilege or law, and any copying, distribution, disclosure, or other use of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by return email or telephone (503) 657-3010 immediately, and delete or destroy all copies. Thank you for your cooperation. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Heiko Haida Sent: June 19, 2015 5:16 AM To: bertrand.me...@inf.ethz.ch; Framers Subject: Re: Purchase question Hello Bertrand, did you check to work with the "Compatibility mode" setting? This is set for the "exe"-file(s) of older applications and sometimes it may help -- you would choose the "Window XP" mode here. Another problem is, that older applications often require admin-rights for certain folders like the application folder. Maybe you can check if starting FrameMaker 7 with admin-rights may help. I think that even FM 7.2 should run on a Win 8 system... Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin Bertrand Meyer: This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). That's not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all I saw on Adobe's page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages? Thanks in advance, -- Bertrand Meyer ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Purchase question
Adobe's store has really bad UI, at least for FrameMaker. Click Buy Now, then change the "I want to buy" to Full. Before you spend $1000, you might want to do a free evaluation of MadCap Flare. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: > This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker > newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with > recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on > Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker > 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using > the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). > That’s not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all > I saw on Adobe’s page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not > acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent > possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of > Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate > MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Purchase question
Hello Bertrand, did you check to work with the "Compatibility mode" setting? This is set for the "exe"-file(s) of older applications and sometimes it may help -- you would choose the "Window XP" mode here. Another problem is, that older applications often require admin-rights for certain folders like the application folder. Maybe you can check if starting FrameMaker 7 with admin-rights may help. I think that even FM 7.2 should run on a Win 8 system... Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin Bertrand Meyer: > This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker > newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with recent > versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on Solaris and > Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker 7.2, which I > still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using the mouse to > select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). That's not > sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all I saw on > Adobe's page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not acceptable. Could > someone please recommend a version that is the most recent possible, is > available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of Windows (Windows > 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate MIF, and retain > the traditional FrameMaker advantages? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- Bertrand Meyer ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Purchase question
You can still buy it at Adobe, they just make it hard to find. https://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_allsoftware.html?start=50 Keep clicking next at the bottom until you see FrameMaker (for me it was page 5), then click Buy. The full version (FrameMaker 2015) is $999.00. There's no option to buy earlier versions. If you need other Adobe products, you might look into the Technical Communications suite (for me, that was page 6), which runs $1,199 as an upgrade for you (yes, you can get it at the upgrade price). That includes Frame, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat Pro DC, and Presenter. Good luck, On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: > This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker > newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with > recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on > Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker > 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using > the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). > That’s not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version > all I saw on Adobe’s page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not > acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most > recent possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent > versions of Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm > files, generate MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -- Bertrand Meyer > > > > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Purchase question
This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). That’s not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all I saw on Adobe’s page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages? Thanks in advance, -- Bertrand Meyer ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
