Is there an easy way to convert an FM 2019 file to an FM 2017 file

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June 26, 2019
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A contractor sent in some FM files that I cannot open. He worked on them in a trial version of FM 2019. I only have FM 2017. Is there an easy way to convert the FM 2019 files to FM 2017?

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Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Make sure you are fully patched up in FM2017 when trying to open the "Saved As 2017" file version. If it still doesn't work, go the MIF route.

pulkitn

Adobe Employee

You can do that in 2 ways :

Save FM2019 version files to Previous version i.e FM2017 version ".fm" format
Or you can save to MIF format which can be opened in any of these version.

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Zerkfitting

Known Participant

I did a save as to FrameMake 2017 on a machine with FrameMaker 2019. When I try to open it on in Frame 2017 it fails (saying it was created from a different version of Frame).

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi Zerkfitting,

Are you really sure that you saved the files as FM 2017?

I know that you can miss this easily.

You can check the version, when you open the FM file with a text editor. In the first line it says <MakerFile 15.0> for FM 2019 and <MakerFile 14.0> for FM 2017. Of course do not save in the text editor!

And of course MIF works as well.

Best regards

Winfried