Hi Rick, I'll just split this up into a pro and con list. :) Bottom line up front: its a decent solution if you are using it for a small team with three writers or less but it does not scale well at all in terms of content OR the number of users making edits. You'd be better off just using the commenting functionality in acrobat reader if there's a lot of edits/lots of editors etc.
Pros: -allows you to track new text added in and deleted text. Deleted text appears in red and new text appears in green. Note these are in fact "hidden" conditional text. -allows you track which user has made a change so you can search for particular edits by user. You can also filter the edits so you only see edits by a particular user or users. -TT edits can be controlled on the document and book level so you can flip on TT edits for a particular book or for just a single document. -enable or disable TT edits across an entire book via a single click. -accept or reject all TT edits across an entire book via a single click Cons: -no commenting functionality. If you want to make a comment, it will appear as new text. -no way to visually distinguish between editors. For example, if John Doe inserts text and George Smith also inserts text they both appear as green text. You just know its newly inserted text, you have to pay careful attention via other subtle visual cues that its separate editors. -can be really had to use if you use conditional text especially if the text is the same color as the hidden conditional text of the insertion and deletion edits. Note also that if you apply conditional text to TT edit text that this can corrupt the book and cause the book to crash each time you do an update and save. -each time you turn TT edits it generates the stupid back up files for each file in the book which you'll have to clean up each time. -if you have a collaborative editing process where many people need to review text, make edits, and comments, then the process becomes nightmarish because its really hard to tell how is commenting on what or who is responding to what comment. -overall stability of framemaker seems to go down when the TT edits is turned on. It might be better in framemaker 11. Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120912/65f4d2db/attachment.html>