Hi Clint, > Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from > FM 7.0 to > 9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4. > > First, do you see any problems with just opening our old unstructured > templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't > expect there > would be any.
If you don't use special codepage fonts, I wouldn't expect problems. However, I know that some do a MIF-wash for all files and create the book and the generated files from scratch. > Second, various members of our group use different versions > of Acrobat, > from 6.0 standard to 9.0 pro, mostly 7.0 pro. Is there any compelling > reason or technical necessity for us all to upgrade to Acrobat 9.0? I > know that FM will create PDF on its own without Acrobat, but seem to > remember that some or many features are lost in doing so. The FrameMaker installation installs Acrobat Distiller without user interface and less functionality. You should _not_ install this add-on, if you already have Acrobat installed. FrameMaker uses the Distiller variant which is installed on your system to create PDF files. FrameMaker cannot create PDF files without any Distiller variant. I do not know, whether FrameMaker 9 knows the path to the joboptions files of older Distiller versions. I also would expect that certain features (CMYK, SaveAs PDF) wouldn't work. Possibly others know more. Best regards Winfried _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@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.