Opening FM 7 file in FM 8

[_Eva_Bisztricsany_]

Can I simply open the FM 7 files in FM 8 or I have to convert it from FM 7 to FM 8? I have a lot of FM 7 files in many languages (Japanese, Greek, Hungarian, Chinese etc.) so I would like to use the Unicode support of FM 8 in my files. How could I start it with FM 8.

Many thanks

Eva

[Art Campbell]

Yes, just select the file and Open.
You're asked if you want to update the file format of a 7 file to 8.

Art

[_Eva_Bisztricsany_]

Thanks, Art,

And if I do that, and save the FM 8 files as mif, and open the mif files in any text editor (Notepad or Texpad), I will see the characters in unicode?

Eva

[AxialInfo]

Hi, Eva,
You'll need to have a unicode-aware text editor in order to see the characters correctly -- UltraEdit is one that comes highly recommended, and there are many others, too. TextPad and Notepad aren't unicode-aware (unless maybe Notepad on Vista is).

Sheila

[_Eva_Bisztricsany_]

Thank you Sheila,

Where can I have any Unicode-aware text editor that can open our FM 8 mif files?

Eva

[AxialInfo]

http://www.ultraedit.com

This screenshot shows doing searches in Chinese (I think) characters:

http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=6&pos=56

[Guest]

Eva:

For Windows, I rather like Notedpad++:

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php

Currently version 4.5, supported Unicode in version 2.4.

Be sure to check out all the plug-ins. If you have the plug-ins' .zip files in the same directory as the Notepad++ installation program, they'll bet installed and configured at the time of installation...

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

P.S. I like Notepad++ so much that under Linux I run it under Wine...

[_HansF_]

Hello,
we just update to FM8 and have a great problem!
We also have only FM 7.2 data (as many others,I think!). If we produce a PDF via the book-option it isn't possible because the files are saved in FM 7.2!
Is there any solution or workaround? Shall we install the patches?
We use FM 8.0p236.
Thanks
Hans Froehlich

[Art Campbell]

Hans,

All the files in the book must be opened at least once. When they are opened, they are converted to FM 8 (you are asked if this is OK).
At that point, you can generate a PDF. It's up to you whether you then save the files as FM 8 format or not -- if you abandon the updated file, you'll need to convert them each time you work on them.

If I were you, I'd make a backup copy of the FM 7 files for the archives. Then roll the files forward to FM 8 and go on with life.

And yes, of course, apply the patches. But the patches don't have anything to do with the problem.

Art