FrameMaker 7.1 on Solaris 10

[_Ali_Abbas_Sadiq_]

Hi,

We have FrameMaker 7.1 running on Solaris 8. We would like to know if there will be any issue if we migrate FrameMaker 7.1 on Solaris 10.
Please reply if you have FrameMaker 7.1 running on Solaris 9 or 10 or you have seen any issues with FrameMaker running on Solaris 9 or 10.

Thanks,
Ali

[Helge Blischke]

We are running FrameMaker versions 4, 5.1, 5.5, 5.56, 6.0, 7.1, and 8.0
(tryout) on Solaris 10.

But with 7.1 and 8.0, we have issues with font handling. With the support of OpenType fonts, the use of the Adobe Colltype font library causes lots of problems - mainly compatibility problems with FM 6 and earlier. Configuring font attributes (like weights, angles, and variations) by editing the $FMHOME/fminit/fontdir/fontlist no longer works; it seems FM now has adopted to the restricted Windows behaviour - there are only 4 supported styles (plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic); everything beyond these is likely to be treated as a variation (even things like "BoldOblique", as in "Helvetica-BoldOblique").

But that seems to be a design flaw, not due to the operating system.

Helge

[_david1]

Are you running a FrameMaker museum with all those old versions? :)

[Helge Blischke]

Well, the oldest version which is still used for production jebs on a regular basis is 6; but we have a bunch of legacy documents we are forced to keep them editable in case the customer requests it, and it is much easier to keep the old FM versions alive than migrating the documents to newer versions.

Helge