Any ideas

[Grant Hogarth]

There is a better solution than VSS -- look at Subversion. It is both
free and web-friendly, and we use it daily to share files (including FM
files) between Salt Lake City, Paris, London, Bangalore, and Bangkok.
Check-in and -out is bog simple (with "Tortoise", it's part of the
Windows File manager).  

As for tools, you might be better off looking at Open Office and saving
as XML.
A lot depends on the savvyness (savviness? savvity?) of your authors and
how complex your books are.

Grant
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On Behalf Of Kevin Rusnak
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:39 AM
To: Framers at frameusers.com
Subject: Any ideas

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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