What kind of XML will you have to produce and what plugins are not working?
FrameMaker doesn't really have templates. You just open an .fm or
.book file in a newer version and it's converted. I've opened FM6 in
FM10 without problems.
We use the word template loosely to mean the character and
Oh, I missed that you're using structured FrameMaker. That does have templates.
If the plugins were broken by the switch from FM6 to FM8, post the
names of the plugins. Some might appear in the menu, others you might
identify only by looking in the fminit\plugins directory.
It's possible your
, 16 May 2014 08:21:25 -0700
From: Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com
To: MacDonald, Helen hmacdon...@ptitechnologies.com,
framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version
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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 02:55:15 -0500
Subject: RE: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version
Unless you are just using FrameMaker as a hobby,
I would go for the current version (Frame12).
Trying to deliver work on an obsolete unsupported version asking for trouble.
For instance
[mailto:hmacdon...@ptitechnologies.com]
Sent: 20 May 2014 17:04
To: Davis, David
Subject: RE: FrameMaker 8 to a Newer Version
Thanks to everyone replying to my question.
Well, I am definitely not using this for a hobby...can't think of any hobby
that would involve FM. (No offense intended.)
I am
Thanks to everyone replying to my question.
Well, I am definitely not using this for a hobby...can't think of any hobby
that would involve FM. (No offense intended.)
I am still not convinced which route to take - stay with FM8 or upgrade.
It sounds like with the patch I can stay with FM8
The FM10 license belongs to the company that bought my old employer. I
haven't upgraded my personal copy since FM6 since I haven't needed it
for freelancing since then.
Unless and until it's possible to integrate FrameMaker with a wiki, I
can't see using it again except for legacy docs.
On Tue,
I wish I had a copy of FrameMaker 8, it is in many ways superior to
later versions, especially if you prefer keyboard shortcuts to the
mouse. Adobe layered a badly designed UI on top in FM9, the new UI
broke a lot of things, they never fixed them. They've added some
useful features but
F8 and F9 are working again in FM11. There is a slight delay the first
time you use one of them, but other than that they are OK.
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
On 16-May-14 6:21 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
I wish I had a copy of FrameMaker 8, it is in many ways superior to
You've already done the important step of testing out your FM8 material in a 12
trial - your biggest changes will be the new UI and perhaps old fonts - Unicode
came in there somewhere around FM7/8.
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On
Your FM8 templates should work fine in FM12 and you've already
discovered that some plugins will need updates to work.
You said you lost your FM8 disk. It probably wouldn't work anyway, since
there was a Windows change that broke it. You can download a fixed
version of the installation file
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