Document revision control

[Alison Craig]

I'm a lone writer and have been for most of my writing career, but I've always used version control - VSS as it happens.

Our R&D department switched to Subversion a couple of years ago, but I didn't make the switch with them, at least not yet. I know quite a few people on this list use Subversion as well, and have said good things about it.

Alison

Alison Craig
Technical Documentation Lead

604-279-8550 | fax 604-279-8559 | toll-free 1-866-437-9508
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | www.ultrasonix.com<http://www.ultrasonix.com/>

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Amy Super
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:01 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Document revision control

Hi there,
Does anyone out there use a revision control system? We are in dire need of it, as my company has recently gone up to 3 writers (from 1) and we're afraid of overwriting work.

Our document repository is made up of standalone FM docs with linked images, FM books with linked images, and a pile of giant old Word docs that have both embedded and referenced images.

These are the solutions I know a little about:

*       Perforce - used at my last job, since that's what the developers used. I think it has a bit of a steep learning curve for this environment, though, given that I had to save my files out as .mif before checking them in. I'm hoping for support of binary files instead.

*       SharePoint/TFS - we have it here. But our version of SharePoint is too old for FrameMaker to integrate. That means I can't access any linked files without checking them all out. Upgrading SharePoint is not happening any time soon. I have also read a fair number of unhappy stories on the Adobe forums about the FM/SP combination.

*       Subversion - a friend recently installed this at his company, and so far it looks promising. Does anyone use it?

*       Documentum - just had a terrible experience trying to get them to respond to a live chat. I know it's an option for integrating FM.

Thoughts are greatly appreciated, as I found out today I need to have a candidate list ready by Friday.

Thanks!
Amy

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