Hi Amy, I have used Subversion / Tortoise SVN extensively and it has never failed me. The last couple of years I have been using www.assembla.com's services to. Assembla offers hosting of your files using SVN or GIT and maybe some other options too. Assembla seems to me a very reasonable option.
Kind regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland 2012/9/19 Amy Super <asu...@confluence.com> > 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**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as bod...@gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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