Re: comparing FrameMaker documents

[Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>]

Rédactrice Technique wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I've just taken a tech writing role where I'm the only writer in a team of
> engineers. The previous writer has moved on and I've inherited his old
> documents.
> 
> One of the first things I did was to convert the existing manuals from one
> (long!) document to book format, although I'm now not sure this was the my
> most brilliant idea, mainly for the following reason:
> 
> One of the project managers here has asked me to come up with a way of
> comparing document versions, so that customers can see exactly what has
> changed between one version and another, like with the Word Track Changes
> feature (a change history table already exists, but he wants more detail).
> 
Are they (or can they be) made into PDFs?
Then you can compare the resulting PDFs using Acrobat. (Depending on
numeric version, you might need Full, Pro, or whatever.)
Then it doesn't matter how many files were used in the creation.
Regards
Jay
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