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| [mailto:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]On Behalf Of Deborah Ward
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| We have created a set of training manuals in Word 6/7 (in Windows 95)
| and are now in the process of migrating them to Framemaker 5.0. The
| manuals are split into sections, which are then split into documents.
| They are pretty meaty, with clip art, scans, graphics, and text, and
| range in size from 300KB to 32MB. We thought Framemaker would be more
| stable than Word, but we are continuing to have crashes, lock-ups, and
| the like.
Version 5.0 was known to be a bit unstable and to have some non-trivial
unresolved bugs. As soon as we upgraded to 5.5 (5.5.2, actually), everything
worked perfectly.
That said, importing a 32MB Word document into Frame is unlikely to be a
trouble-free process.
