Version control of FM documents/books

[Peter Ring]

Version control in the sense of configuration management, or version 
control as in revision control, i.e. the basic storage mechanism needed 
for configuration management?

Depending on the volume of FrameMaker documents and the number of 
revisions, you can certainly use CVS. We do -- for the time being. CVS 
is not particularly well suited for binary files. If you want something 
that work in a fashion similarly to CVS, Subversion is the compelling 
alternative.

Up-scale XML-based document management systems typically offer some 
FrameMaker intergration, some workflow management and some configuration 
management.

Kind regards
Peter Ring


Radha Padmanabhan wrote:
> Hi, greetings!
>    
>   I use FM 7.0 with Windows XP. 
>   For the projects that I work with, I am the sole writer(modifier)/owner of the documents.
>   As of now, the FM documents are in the hard disk of my machine and periodically we ensure that they are backed up.
>    
>   I wish to know whether we can use CVS for version control of FM files/books and how the path sensitivity of FM /size of books will effect this. Or what is the best way to ensure version control of FM docs/books?
>    
>   TIA for the suggestions.
>    
>   Regards
>   Radha
>    
> 
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