Hi Grant You are looking for a way to compare two docs with conditional text. I do this all the time with Adobe Acrobat Professional (7.0). You MUST have pro. (We upgraded from 6.0 pro to 7.0 standard, because someone had extra licenses from an acquisition. I hit the ceiling the second I opened the program and found no compare feature. So I do know from experience!)
Drawbacks (IMHO) with the Acrobat compare: - side-by-side gets skewed if you added or deleted text so the pagination is different between the two versions. Then you have to scroll back and forth to compare. I might be forced to do it - my engineers will say life is too short... - legibility of changes - in 7.0 pro, the "older" version uses red strikeout, the newer version uses blue underline. I find the placement of the blue can make it hard to read. I view my compares with two monitors, but still I cannot tell if the new number is an 8 or a 0. I have to zoom quite a bit to get past the point where there is no doubt about the number. Of course, I can look in my source, but the point is that I should be able to see it here. I simply cannot find a place to change these parameters in Acrobat. The FM compare is OK for a chapter. Mentally, I can get thrown by seeing the deletions and additions all together. You have to process the different color coding and read it accordingly. I find that tricky. That would be for heavy duty changes. For a light revision, it might be OK. Bodvar - do you do a compare of the entire FM book in one step? My complaint about the FM compare is that it is per chapter. I need to do the entire book. I am sure there is a FrameScript solution to such a task, but tell me - is there a built-in method that I have overlooked? Thanks. regards, Karen Mardahl
