I figure anyone who owns a copy of FrameMaker 7 and MIF2Go has
adequate technical chops to deal with continuing to use them in
Windows 7.
Adobe hasn't fixed most of the bugs that affect me, and they've added many more.
FrameMaker is not 64-bit and probably never will be given that under
the hood
y a false economy, either on the enterprise or the individual scale.
David
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I own FrameMaker 6, Acrobat 8, Photoshop 5, Illustrator 7, and various
more obscure apps of similar vintage. They all work fine for my
purposes and upgrading would be not just a waste of money but a waste
of time having to get used to UI changes.
Buying a newer version of something because I neede
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The subject of this thread is "Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows
7" and the opening post specifically mention
I typically have 10-15 applications running and if I come close to
using 4GB it's a sign that one of my apps (usually Firefox) has a
memory leak. As I noted earlier, I ran 64-bit Windows at work for a
year and a half and performance was indistinguishable from my 32-bit
system at home, and at work I
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I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of money for most tech
writers.
The only thing I
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The subject of this thread is "Compatibil
The subject of this thread is "Compatibility of old(ish) Software with
Windows 7" and the opening post specifically mentioned FM7 and Acrobat
7, which do have problems with 64-bit Windows.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote:
> most people do not use
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That's a false generalization. The 4MB in my several Windows systems is twice
as much as I have ever needed.
On the Mac I'm testing large-footprint server software in multiple
That's a false generalization. The 4MB in my several Windows systems
is twice as much as I have ever needed.
On the Mac I'm testing large-footprint server software in multiple
VMs, so 8GB is cramped, but if I could swap my Mac for had two real
PCs running 32-bit Linux with 4GB each I'd have better
If you're using only half the RAM you have, as is the case for my 4GB
Windows systems, adding more won't speed things up.
If you load more software than will fit in the amount of RAM you have,
your system will slow down so much it might as well have crashed. That
happened to me at work the other d
RAM at once, which is
> only possible on a 64 bit OS. You can expect hugely better performance in
> that scenario kind of scenario with 64 bit. If you're not seeing it then that
> suggests to me that something's not configured right on your PC.....
>
>
>
> Message:
RAM is very cheap now-a-days, and your computers runs much faster with
more RAM. It's a much more pleasant experience.
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
On 18-Feb-14 3:52 PM, Harro de Jong wrote:
Robert Lauriston wrote:
I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of mo
Robert Lauriston wrote:
> I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of money for most tech
> writers.
There's one exception I'm running into at the moment: working with 3d CAD
files. I'm using Solidworks Explorer to generate images for a manual; with the
entire machine model loade
bit. If you're not seeing it then that
suggests to me that something's not configured right on your PC.
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:49:35 -0800
From: Robert Lauriston
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7
M
a risky strategy to use obsolete software for
> things that you rely on to get your work done.
> There'll be no vendor support.
>
>
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>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:02:18 -0800
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> To: "
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I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would
There'll be no vendor support.
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:02:18 -0800
From: Robert Lauriston
To: "Davis, David" ,
"framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7
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I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of money for most
tech writers.
The only thing I've done in my work where I've needed more than 4GB is
testing server applications with large memory footprints. The rest of
the time I'm not using even half my 4GB.
Outside of work I run music so
The memory limit is per process. There are various ways that 32-bit
applications that need more than 2GB of memory (which few do) can use
it in 32-bit Windows.
I worked for 18 months with 64-bit Windows 7 at work and 32-bit
Windows 7 at home. I saw no performance difference. I had both 64-bit
and
Helen Borrie said:
> Just a point to those encouraging Carrie to "install as 64-bit" - there's no
> way you can make a 32-bit application install or run as 64-bit.
You are correct, but ... I think the suggestions have been to install the
Windows 7 OS itself as 64-bit, not the application, on mo
At 12:47 a.m. 7/02/2014, Carrie Baker wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I don't think I am the only person with oldish software.
>
>I work in a fairly small company, as a single technical writer.
>
>I have FrameMaker 7, and use with Acrobat 7.
I have FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 8 (jumped over from FM6 and Acro6,
n that couldn't work in XP mode like this, even 16
> bit (!) ones designed to run on Windows 3.1.
>
> David
>
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>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:57:44 -0800
> From: Robert Lauriston
> To: Carrie Baker ,
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From: Robert Lauriston
To: Carrie Baker ,
"framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7
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Install Windows 7 32-bit rather than 64-bit, fewer potential
compatibil
Install Windows 7 32-bit rather than 64-bit, fewer potential
compatibility problems.
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:32:17 +0200, Carrie Baker wrote:
>Thanks Jeremy
>
>Will the latest version of Mif2go work with all this, or should I stay with
>the one I am currently using?
As long as the one you are using works, and you
have no requirements a newer one supports better,
stay with what wor
Thanks Jeremy
Will the latest version of Mif2go work with all this, or should I stay with
the one I am currently using?
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:47:22 +0200, Carrie Baker
> wrote:
>
> >I have FrameMaker 7, and use with Acrobat 7.
> >
>
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:47:22 +0200, Carrie Baker wrote:
>I have FrameMaker 7, and use with Acrobat 7.
>
>I create PDF files for distribution and help files with Webworks ePublisher
>Pro version 9.02
>
>I am also using a version of MIF2Go from a few years ago (I do have a newer
>one, but once every
Expect to pay full price on all upgrades. Other than that, everything is still
basically the same with a different look and feel.
Scott T
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 5:47, Carrie Baker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't think I am the only person with oldish software.
>
> I work in a fairly small co
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