Unicode support was added in FM8. However, I don't believe that FM requires the font support Unicode; Adobe certainly has quite a few fonts that aren't Unicode. As long as it's installed on the machine, it should be available.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:39 PM Jeff Coatsworth < jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com> wrote: > Yup, long post alright! > I would suggest that you find a non-production machine and install a trial > copy of FM2019 - make sure you immediately perform updates on it (just > because you just downloaded it, doesn't mean that it's up to date - it's > like version 1.0 - there's been 5 patches so far). The good news is that > you only have to do Help > Updates once, because FM patches are now > cumulative, rather than sequential (yay!) > Next, bring over a copy of your FM7.1 content & give upgrading it a try. > Since I can't recall when FM went through the Unicode barrier thing, you > may find your fonts to be an issue. The UI will be completely different to > you. Just play around and experiment. > > > ________________________________ > From: Framers <framers-bounces+jeff.coatsworth= > jonasclub....@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Wendy McGovern < > wmcgov...@pbi.org> > Sent: March 31, 2020 8:01 AM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Cc: publications > Subject: [Framers] Questions re upgrading Frame from 7.1 > > Hi, Framers, > Apologies for a somewhat long post, but I would really like some input. We > are contemplating finally upgrading from our Frame 7.1 (yep, had it for 17 > years) to the newest version (Frame 2019). Our version of Frame has been > ridiculously stable and its amazing features have served our purposes > without having to upgrade over the years. We upgraded our computers to > Windows 10 last year, but the 32-bit Frame has worked in that system so > far. We do get messages about fonts changing when we change print driver to > Adobe for making PDFs, but it hasn't had any ill effects for us. Some > background: > We do legal books in Frame that use the generated files feature for > summary and tables of contents, tables of cases, tables of statutes, and > subject matter indexes. Most of our books have extensive footnotes (lawyers > love to include footnotes that go on for 7/8ths of a page). We make PDFs of > the books as well as send MIF files to a conversion company for EPUBs. We > use unstructured Frame and don't need structure for anything. We don't use > conditional text for anything. Recently, I had an incidence of Frame files > in a book I was working on get corrupted where paragraphs had been > bizarrely messed up and lost the work I had done on the files in the last > week or so. Another coworker had saved a Frame file to RTF and later > couldn't open the Frame file again because it said it didn't recognize the > file format. This is leading us to believe that maybe it is finally time > for us to bite the bullet and upgrade to be compatible with all the other > software out there now. So, some specific questio > ns (keeping in mind the unstructured environment): > 1. I was going to ask if Frame 2019 allows the old Escape key sequences of > Esc-jj and Esc-cc to work, because I saw on the list that they broke those > functions in the later versions-but I see from the Frame 2019 manual online > that they have restored those functions in 2019. So this functionality > works well now? > 2. Is Frame ever going to fix the footnotes problem? I've replied to > Adobe's feature requests over the years, and they still don't have a fix. > 3. Is Frame 2019 stable as far as people using it now can tell? (I've seen > some posts here about problems creating PDFs and other things that > shouldn't be happening with recent versions of Frame.) > 4. There was a small problem with Frame 7.1's ability to use the scroll > wheel that needed a special mouse driver that we had to use and we had to > reinstall it when we went to Windows 10, but once the driver was in place, > it was fixed. I'm assuming Frame 2019 doesn't have any issues like this > anymore, right? > 5. Another minor problem with our Frame is a glitch where if you hold down > the mouse a little too long when selecting something, Frame will crash. Has > anyone had this happen with the latest version? > 6. Is IXGEN available for the latest Frame? > 7. Is Frame to RTF conversion good? We save Frame files to RTF to send to > authors for updating their chapters. (People would always need an > explanation of why we used the RTF Japanese for the setting.) > 8. How do you open old Frame 7 files if you have Frame 2019? The online > manual for 2019 says you have to open Frame 7 files as MIF. But in order to > change them to MIF, don't you have to convert them from within Frame 7? Can > you choose to open them as MIF from 2019 itself? And what about the .book > file? Is that preserved if you open all its enclosed files in MIF, or is it > an option to save a whole old book as MIF so that generated files are also > converted? Would we have to convert all our Frame 7 books to MIF before > installing Frame 2019 (or can you have both versions of Frame installed on > your computer at the same time?)? And do you have to replace fonts for > Unicode ones? > 9. Now that Frame has EPUB format as an output, is it good? Is the > unstructured version capable of it? Does it involve cleanup to make the > EPUB presentable? Are all the links in the Frame file preserved in the EPUB? > 10. Finally, what do people think of the subscription model versus buying > an outright license (if Adobe even still lets people buy a "forever" > license)? I think I remember seeing some panicked user on the list > mentioning something about Adobe screwing up their subscription and them > not having their Frame functionable anymore. > 11. And another finally, seeing some recent posts about problems someone > had with the trial version, is there any advice about that? > > I am on the digest, so if anyone replies, could you please reply to me > directly as well as the list? Thanks for any advice you can give. > > > > > [Pennsylvania Bar Institute]<http://www.pbi.org> > > > Wendy McGovern > Publications Editor > Pennsylvania Bar Institute > 5080 Ritter Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 > (E) wmcgov...@pbi.org<mailto:wmcgov...@pbi.org> (P) 717-620-6257 > (P) 800-932-4637, ext. 6257 (F) 717-796-2348 > www.pbi.org<http://www.pbi.org> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
