Any ideas

[Malcolm Melville]

Use Subversion,  http://subversion.tigris.org/ and consider hosting  
on Collabnet, http://www.collab.net/
I have no association with Collabnet.

Source Safe stinks by comparison.
If you are on a site where they use the Rational tool set, ClearCase  
will do the same job as subversion but is rather costly.

If you host yourself, subversion works great with any Apache server -  
suppose thats what you expect since Apache use subversion themselves.
FrameMaker files go great in and out of subversion and then you get  
full ability to fork, have multiple versions etc.

For clients, the Windows Explorer add-in means that its really easy  
for the user to get access to a multi-version file system. Similar  
tools available for Mac OS X (in case you have some legacy users).

regards
malcolm

On 18 Jan 2007, at 14:38, Kevin Rusnak wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to the forums and thought this would be a useful place to ask
> questions about creating a FrameMaker structure. My situation is a bit
> unique, and I am in search of the best solution.
>
> Currently, I am in charge of manuals that are written by several
> different people. The process of editing these manuals is that the
> FrameMaker books and files are created in the PDF. The person then  
> makes
> their edits that they want made through Comments in the PDF. This  
> PDF is
> then given to me and I make the changes in FrameMaker as need be.
>
> I think that there might be an easier solution. My solution would  
> be to
> keep all the FrameMaker files in one centralized location such as a
> network. Each person who is in charage of a manual should get  
> FrameMaker
> and learn the tools to make the edits themselves.
>
> The problem that this poses is that the people who work on these  
> manuals
> travel often, meaning that they cannot easily access the network to  
> grab
> the files. There is also the problem of absolute paths vs. relative
> paths and the problems that could happen (such as broken links/ 
> graphics)
> with graphics, cross-references, text insets, etc. together.
>
> I've considered Visual SourceSafe for checking in and checking out
> files, but was wondering if anyone else had a better or creative
> solution to this problem.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
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