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Nadine --- On Tue, 8/3/10, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> > Subject: FM8 compatibility with Windows 7 > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 3:18 PM > > Gang, > > Does anyone have solid information on whether or not > FrameMaker 8.x is compatible with Windows 7? > One of the engineers in a group I work with just got a > shiny new laptop with Windows 7 (so far our corporate IT > people are only allowing Windows 7 on brand-new machines), > and the IT folks insisted that she has to install FrameMaker > 9 rather than FrameMaker 8 because FM8 is not compatible. Of > course, this now causes file compatibility issues since > everybody else in the group still has FrameMaker 8 and can't > get FM9 yet because the IT group's "purchase software" > website only offers FM8. Yes, I know she can do a Save As to > save files she works on in FM8 file format, but she tells me > that FrameMaker requires her to change the filename when she > does so, and that causes issues with our version control > system. I'd love to have some solid information I can > forward to the IT group to convince them that it really is > OK to install FrameMaker 8 on a Windows 7 machine. (Or I'd > like to know that it is definitively *not* OK so that I can > work with this engineer to come up with a practical a > nd foolproof workaround.) > I tried searching for compatibility information on Adobe's > website, and the closest I could come were a couple of pages > that told me that FM9 is "now compatible" with Windows 7. > Useless. And I tried searching Microsoft's website, but the > compatibility spreadsheet they provide for "IT pros" doesn't > list *any* version of FrameMaker among the 10543 entries, > and their Windows 7 Compatibility Center only lists > FrameMaker 9, and only with the indication "no information > available". Even more useless. > -Fred Ridder > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as generic...@yahoo.ca. > > 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/generic668%40yahoo.ca > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. > Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and > info. > o _______________________________________________ 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.