On 10/2/06, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jason Kraus wrote: > On 10/2/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don't use Microsoft Word. Use a real text processor that has macro >> capabilities. > > > > No where did I say we had to use Microsoft Word ;) We simply need to be able > to export the content into PDFs. Open Office will export to PDF. It does Word documents decent enough unless you add graphics, etc. It native format is 100% text, so it will work well with any version control system.
How will Open Office improve on our current situation? I did check it out but I really didn't see anything that could readily help us. Hmm, I should clarify. When I say version bumping, its not just creating a new version, but the document itself states its version number. In addition, it refers to other documents using their name and version number. Then the document itself, at least the published document, needs to include a revision log. I checked into mail merging, but it seems doing recursions an arbitrary number of times is not supported, not to mention we would be grabbing data from multiple tables/data sources. Another thing to consider, our computers are old. Me and the IT guy make fun of them all the time. Jokes such as: Our computers are so old the high schools won't take them. (Not far from the truth) Seriously. P2 400 is our minimuim, and P3 550 is tops for client machines. Openoffice takes a while to load on my P4, I don't want to think what it will be like on these computers.
However, if we are going to be using a word > processor, it does need to be user friendly. I really wanted to get away > from using a word processor because the documents in mind have a very strict > layout. Also we are still stuck running windows 98 so that becomes a requirement. > > But it's probably too late for that. Currently, I use the free version of Perforce for all version control (source code and documentation. The free version allows two users and 5 clients, which is fine since I'm the only person that needs to check things in or out of it. One bonus for using Perforce are the plugins available for my IDEs (for source code) and for M$ Office for documents (though I often uses Open Office). For our multi-user version control, we're using Subversion.
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