I have been using Illustrator CS6 for some months. The EPS files I generate work flawlessly with FM9 and with FM 11. I cannot imagine that they would not work with earlier versions of FM. One could also try good old tiff.... The improvements to Illustrator are very minor, not worth upgrading. Mine came with TCS4 so I upgraded by default. When are they going to redesign the graph tool.
Rob Shell Windows Seven FrameMaker 11 patched 4 GB RAM 3 TB hd