Getting FrameMaker running again on my main machine: Priceless! Time spent monkeying around with SheepShaver, trying InDesign as a substitute for FrameMaker (close, but not close enough), downloading and installing Parallels/Windows XP and trying all kinds of tricks to get iFrameMaker running and then being on-hold/on-line with Adobe tech support: 16+ hours. Now I need to relearn Frame in the "Parallel" universe of Windows. Seems to work so far, I have imported my old FrameMaker 7 Mac files (didn't even have to save them as MIFs!). SheepShaver may be OK for getting your old games and simple programs up and running, but it did not seem anywhere near stable enough to get something like FrameMaker running with a long document with graphics and cross references.įinal working configuration: FrameMaker 9 on Win XP SP2 on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 on a 17" MacBook Pro with Intel Core i7 processors (April 2010 model) and Parallels 5, 8 GB RAM. This may all be possible using the default extractor, I just don't know.Īnd a final for-what-its worth: before going the Parallels route, I tried installing SheepShaver to run Classic on my MacBook Pro so I could continue to run my Mac copy of Frame v7. Using WinRAR we extracted the files into the Programs folder (once WinRAR was installed, the generic box icon for the extraction program changed to a normal looking icon). Once we had all of these components up-to-date, we were still running into problems with file extraction, and the Tech Support person had me load a program called WinRAR (google it) which seemed to be a more configureable extractor than the default one that comes with the FrameMaker download. I just wanted to run Windows so I could use FrameMaker on my Mac.įirst I had to update Flash, and to do this I downloaded the latest version of the FireFox-Mozilla web-browser (or you could update MS Explorer). As a Mac user, some of these issues were foreign to me. This may impair the functioning of the extractor, I am not sure. Flash is way out of date, Explorer is, too. I will let you know if it occurs in a delayed fashion as yours did.įor anyone who just installed Parallels and then Windows XP, what I found out is that many of the components in XP are very old school. Just in case anyone else with similar issues should come across this thread I will describe some of the issues.īTW - John, now that I have FM9 running, I have not experienced the nonfunctioning UNDO command that you described in the original post. I then spent quite a bit of quality time with Adobe technical support, and they were very helpful, and got me on my way. I tried your suggestions, but to no avail. Perhaps others on the forum have other suggestions. Since it's a virtual machine, perhaps you can delete the complete virtual machine and start over from scratch, if you have no serious commitment to other Windows apps. If you've installed FrameMaker as part of TCS or TCS2, perhaps there are interactions between the other components of TCS/2. If you've downloaded FrameMaker, rather than having gotten it on a disk, perhaps there's a defect in the download. If you've had other FrameMaker installations on your virtual machine, whether FrameMaker 9, or earlier, or perhaps pre-release (beta) versions, there may be junk remaining from them, as happens in Windows registries from time to time. I'd suspect those problems were due to VMware Fusion 2 haven't tried Fusion 3. I had screen-refresh and hang problems when I used VMware Fusion 2 and Win 7, as well as with Win XP SP2. No installation problems, no operation problems on light-weight FrameMaker docs and tasks. I've been using FrameMaker 9 on Win XP SP2 on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and Parallels 5, on pre-Unibody MacBook Pro 17", 4GB RAM. When the installer is extracting the files, it consistently freezes at 26% when Data1.cab is the file listed as the one being extracted.ĭid you have any problem just installing Frame 9 on Parallels 5? I tried Adobe's suggestions, I made sure I had enough RAM and hard disk space, and I tried modifying the Windows system to a simple system, but it keeps freezing at the same point. I am running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 installed under Parallels 5 (latest update) on a MacBook Pro (with an i7 Processor). I cannot even get FrameMaker 9 installed. I am sorry that this is a bit off your posted problem, but I couldn't find a better thread for this (please let me know if you know of one).
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