Upgrading and crossgrading

[Marc De Roover]

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On 16 Feb 2016, at 10:28, Bill Richards wrote:

> It has been a while since I used the list, so please forgive my 
> ignorance.
>
> I have a client who is asking me to upgrade them from 4.3.2 on the Mac 
> to 6.1 on Windows.
>
> There are a few things that I have encountered already and a few 
> questions I would like to ask for help on...
>
> 1. There are obvious font issues... Advice would be appreciated.
>
> 2. I used quite a lot of printing to pdf files on the Mac, which no 
> longer seems to function on the PC, do I need any specific software on 
> the PC? There seems to be a pdf writer installed as a print driver... 
> How can I use that, in the same way I was using kPDF on the Mac?
>
> 3. Whilst a number of things have been picked up by the compatibility 
> checker, the thought of going through the 27,000+ issues it has 
> identified is a little daunting, errors are errors, but what is the 
> severity of level 1 and level 2 warnings?
>
> 4. The migration is in two phases, the first is the Mac to PC upgrade 
> to v.6 and the second phase is to ditch ODB and migrate to SQL server. 
> Is there anything I should look to do in preparation for migrating to 
> SQL server, not least of all because my experience with SQL is 
> limited?
>
> Many thanks, in advance.
>
>
> - Bill
>
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