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crawfucious
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April 23, 2012
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Can i convert a FM 10 .fm file to FM 8 if i don't have FM 10?

  • April 23, 2012
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I don't know much about framemaker, so i'm sorry if this is a simple quiestion that i should know. I searched briefly and couldnt find the answer.

The problem is that we have received a FM 10 .fm file and all we have is FM 8. So is there any way to convert the FM 10 file to FM 8 without having a copy of FM 10?

I was hoping this would be a problem similar to having a docx file and Word 2003. All microsoft requires you to do is download a patch for word 2003 in order to open .docx files.

Thanks!

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2012

    I don't think FrameMaker 8 will open an FM 10 file directly, but you can

    have the file provider save as MIF 7.0 for you. FM8 can open that. There

    is also (for FM10) a SaveAsFM8 ExtendScript that the file provider can

    use to convert. It's available in the SampleScripts.zip file on this page:

    http://frameautomation.com/2011/05/31/framemaker-10-extendscript-slides/

    Harry28586
    Harry28586
    Participating Frequently
    April 23, 2012

    Hi Jeff,

    Thats fine,no problems...

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2012

    Someone would have to open it in 10 and do a save as MIF to get it back to you in 8; if the originator can’t do that, use a spare machine that doesn’t have any FM on it and download the demo of 10 off the adobe website; it’s fully functional for 30 days.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2012

    ... use a spare machine that doesn’t have any FM on it ...

    That needs some emphasis.

    Is "heroic open" a possibility here?

    Harry28586
    Harry28586
    Participating Frequently
    April 23, 2012

    Hi,

    I dont think there is backward compatibily if you dont have Frame10 installed and also with FM 10 you can save a file for fm7,but not for fm8.

    What you can try is,goto www.adobe.com and download Framemaker 10 as a trial and open the FM10.fm file that you have and save it as fm7.mif.

    then try and open that fm7.mif with fm 8 and take a look if you can open that file or not.

    Thanks

    Harpreet.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2012

    Sorry Harry, didn’t see your response there

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