Steve I have just been through this exercise. From 7 to 10.
I have installed Win7 on the bootcamp partition and am using VirtualBox to run Windows as a virtual machine. I normally I run Windows through Virtual Box, but bootcamp provides a real hard disk into which I can start up Windows if I want. Virtual Box allows me to share printers, network connections and other services, meaning I don't have to go through the pain of setting them up in Windows (doing it with a Mac is so much easier for me).
I am happily running FM10 without any issues, so far. Have also tested FM10 fairly extensively in both modes to satisfy myself it will provide untroubled service.
Virtual Box is a free download. Parallels and VmWare are not. I used to run Parallels and got sick of the all too frequent upgrades that required more bucks to be paid to them.
Alan On 24/06/12 10:13 AM, David Creamer wrote:
I prefer Parallels, but you should check out both. What fonts do you currently use in Frame for Mac? You might have no choice but to purchase a new set of fonts. I agree--be careful with TransType Pro--a great program, but triple-check the font license. Dave Creamer IDEAS Training http://www.ideastraining.com ************* Sometime later this year I'll be moving from FrameMaker 7.2 on Mac (in Classic) to FrameMaker 10 for Windows running under emulation on a new Mac in either Parallels or VMWare Fusion. Clearly this will lose FrameMaker's access to my font library in Classic, but I am constrained to work with designs that use specific fonts, and I don't want to have to buy them all over again. Most of my fonts are Ps Type 1, not OpenType or TT. Is there anyone who has gone through this pain who can advise me? I've got TransType, but I've never fond its results to be very reliable, and it probably violates font license agreements anyway. Or do Parallels or Fusion have some sort of magic for resolving this issue?
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