To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81526 Issue #|81526 Summary|Side-by-side diff view Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.2.1 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|mru Reported by|nmailhot
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 12 13:11:01 +0000 2007 ------- (I opened this under writer but it could be extended to impress too) I'd like writer to gain a side-by side diff feature. This feature is common in text editors (an exemple there: http://meld.sourceforge.net/meld_file1.png) Why: I often participate in processes where a contractual document is drafted by several parties. When one of the writers releases a new version comparing it to the last version reviewed is the fastest way to detect changes that may impact your party. Right now that's a complex dance of revision marks, printing both versions and comparing manually, etc Why revision marks do not cut it: 1. They can't be left in the finalised document. So a document with revision marks is always different from the actual "official" document. 2. If you receive a document with revision marks in you can never be sure someone didn't already accept a change, hiding it from review (this is quite common and occurs even when people are not being malicious, they just make editing mistakes). 1+2 means you end up accepting all revisions inconditionnaly in the document with revisions, then comparing it to the document without revisions to check they are the same, then comparing to the previous "good" version to check no revision was left out. This is a time-consuming chore that severily detracts from in-document revision mark usefulness. 3. Revision marks force a formatting reflow. - Often the reflow is so severe a document with revision marks is totally unreadable. - It does funny stuff with tables and floating images - The reflow changes the page numbers, so people never know if the page they're commenting on has the same number for other reviewers 4. Accumulating revision marks on a complex document is a shortcut to document corruption and Office Suite crashes, especially when combined with repeated OO.o/ODF <-> Word/DOC roundtrip conversions 5. You can't use revision marks with protected documents. You need to unprotect them before doing a compare. Unprotecting a document sometimes triggers a lot of automated changes when the point is to compare unchanged authoritative versions 6. writer complains if you ask it to generate revision marks between documents that already include revision marks I'd like to be able to point writer to two documents (protected or not, that include revision marks or not) and have it display them side-by-side, highlighting differences, ignoring any existing revision marks, without changing the formatting, page numbering, etc of the compared documents This feature would be especially appealing now that widescreens are common. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
