RE: FrameMaker 7 and FDK

[Chris Despopoulos <cud@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sue Mitchell asks about issues moving up to Maker 7 with FDK tools that 
were made in FDK 5.5

Actually, there are more problems associated with Maker 6.0 than with 
7.0 in this context.  Maker 6.0 changed the book window and 
functionality - for example there are new volume and chapter variables. 
 Also, I believe Find/Replace via the FDK is more robust in 6.0.  

If your tools don't touch on the new things, then you should have no 
problem.  I actually have plenty of tools I made for 5.5, and they work 
on 6.0 and 7.0 without recompiling or modification.  The FDK also ships 
with a flag you can set to make the FDK behave like an older version. 
 So you could take your source code, just set the flag to 5.5, then 
compile in the 7.0 FDK.  

Fortunately, the changes in 6.0 and 7.0 are not "deep" changes - they 
don't change existing structures in fundamental ways.  Instead, they add 
to existing structures (for the most part) or else they add entirely new 
structures.  So your old tools will not use any of the new properties - 
your old tools won't take advantage of setting up XML structure 
applications - your old tools won't be trying to decide whether to write 
PIs in SGML or XML syntax...  No problem.


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