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/> [cid:image001.gif at 01CD9805.90B91700] From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:[email protected]] 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/36fcbbc1/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 2038 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120921/36fcbbc1/attachment.gif>
