Track Edits in FrameMaker 10

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Rick,

Similarly to Linda I moved from FM 8 to FM 10 on Windows 7 early this year.
I use the Track Text Edits feature for all documents.
My experience:

o Mandatory for me to see exact changes:
  What exactly has changed.
  Which change do I have to communicate to others.
  Which file must be translated.

o It's difficult to manage Track Text Edits and Conditions for
  the same text. Track Text Edits cover condition indicators.
  Conditions are often not maintained when I type in a section
  with conditions.
  Therefore I have to check the conditions for all new text.

o Less crashes with FM 10 than with FM 8 in relationship with
  conditions and Track Text Edits.
  My FM 10 crashes seem to be related to that FM 10 expects books
  which are createad in FM 10.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of LGLists
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:43 PM
> To: 'Rick Quatro'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Track Edits in FrameMaker 10
>
> Rick,
>
> I've been using FM 10 on Win 7 since January. I find that the track edits
> feature works well and similarly to FM 8. The advantage that FM 10 has, if I
> recall correctly, is that I can enable and disable tracking edits for a
> single document or for all documents in the book. That's very handy. I can
> also accept or reject changes at both levels.
>
> As others have reported, I, too, sometimes see instability that seems to be
> associated with using track edits. I'm not completely sure about why it
> happens sometimes and not other times, but track edit does seem to have
> issues after I've worked on a draft for while with track edits on and the
> book also uses conditions.
>
> The instability manifests itself as FM crashes when I try to update or save
> the book. It seems to accumulate somehow. I can use track edits for a while
> (several days, lots of changes), then the crashing starts. I've only solved
> the crashing by turning off track edits.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:32 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Track Edits in FrameMaker 10
>
> I have a client that wants to know the pros and cons of the FrameMaker 10
> Track Edits feature. I am not familiar enough with it to give them useful
> information. Any feedback from those using it would be appreciate it. Thank
> you very much.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-283-5045
> rick at frameexpert.com

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