Will my Framemaker 2017 .FM files open in Framemaker 12?

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November 11, 2017
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I'm currently using Framemaker 2017 at home, and some of the people at the company I work for are using Framemaker 12. If I save my work as an .fm file, will my coworkers be able to open them in Framemaker 12 with document formatting intact?

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

They won't be able to open the 2017 files directly. You will have to save your files as MIF 2017 and they can open those in Fm 12.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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vgfmAuthor

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So if I save a document as a MIF 2017 file, will my coworkers be able to check master pages / formatting and be able to interact with it like a normal Framemaker file, or will it be read-only or have limitations?

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

re: So if I save a document as a MIF 2017 file, will my coworkers be able to check master pages / formatting and be able to interact with it like a normal Framemaker file, or will it be read-only or have limitations?

If you have avoided using any FM document features not present in FM12, there should be no problem with full round-trip collaborative work. MIF is merely a human-readable markup that encodes everything in the binary .book or .fm file. This includes Master and Reference pages and their content. MIF files are read/write by default.

Older FMs just ignore any markup they don't support. They may or may not preserve it on re-save.

If you go back far enough, there are intractable issues. FM7 or earlier can't handle the Unicode present in FM8 or later. Expect serious document damage in that scenario.

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