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Re: Opening Frame 6.0 files in 5.5.6

On Wed, 24 May 2000 14:54:05 -0600, Abby Matsumoto <amatsumoto@signalsoftcorp.com> wrote:

>Has anyone had to open 6.0 files in 5.5.6? I need to give my 6.0 files
>to a customer who is still using 5.5.6. They cannot open the files, and
>"Save As" doesn't allow me to save as an older version of Frame. Is
>"Save As" RTF or MIF the only workaround? Which is better to use? 

Use MIF!!  That's FrameMaker's own interchange format, and it preserves
everything in the Frame document as is.  Don't even consider RTF.  <g>

>Any drawbacks, such as lost formatting?

Any usage of new 6.0 features will be ignored in 5.5.6.  Mostly this
won't matter.  But there is one glaring exception: the autonumbering.
Since 6.0 has introduced new system variables <$chapnum> and <$volnum>
into the scheme, your autonumbers will be hosed in 5.5.6 if you used 
those variables.  

It's not clear if it's still possible to use the old methods in 6.0, 
if you need to maintain compatibility with a 5.5.6 file base.  Perhaps
Ed Malick in Framemaker QA, who kindly summarized these features in
posts on May 12 and 15 under the subject "Chapter numbering hints in 
FM 6.0" (reposted to the lists by Lee Richardson and Tom Neuburger),
could comment about this point...

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  (jeremy@omsys.com)  http://www.omsys.com/

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