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Just to be clear, when you're talking about bringing Frame 7 documents into
a later version of FrameMaker here, are you strictly talking about
structured documents or are you including unstructured documents in your
assessment of how well it works?
What are your thoughts and experiences about converting (specifically)
unstructured FrameMaker documents to a more current version of FrameMaker?
My gut feeling, based on research I did about a year ago, is that the
documents need to be structured. I'm just starting to dive back into the
research because we need to make a move soon, and this thread is my first
stop.
Thanks,
Deanna.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Wroblewski, Victoria <
vwroblewski -at- necsphere -dot- com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Hansen
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 3:59 PM
> Subject: Frame 7 into ATCS/Frame 11
>
> >>
> Does anyone have experience bringing an old Frame document (such as Frame
> 7) into the latest versions of FrameMaker (such as 10 or 11)? Have you
> experienced any problems?
> >>
>
> We stepped up thru the versions to get to 10 (moving to 11 soon) so I
> don't have anything to say about jumping over versions, but one big thing
> with the newer versions of 10 and 11 is support of third-party scripts -
> some have been retooled to work with the newer versions but you still may
> also find some that won't work with 10 and 11 (like our old archive plugin,
> and we have tried to get newer ones but nothing works as well as the old
> one did, sigh).
>
> We did a lot of playing around... er.... "testing out" the newer version
> before we moved from 9 to 10. And that was a good thing, since we were
> aware of some of the issues we ran into with our scripts.
>
> - V
>
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