Doug, Unstructured FrameMaker 10 is compatible with Sharepoint and Documentum for diff and other versioning features:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html With structured FrameMaker, the possibilities are much more. If you use XML/DITA roundtripping, SVN will manage those files excellently. Just like the code, multiple people will be able to work on the same files. You can try doing a pilot - it will give you a good idea if moving to structured FrameMaker makes sense for you. Cheers, Gyanesh On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Andrew Warren <awar...@synaptics.com>wrote: > McKinney, Doug wrote: > > > Our Tech Pubs department (as well as our firmware group) are in the > > process of converting our versioning application from Visual > > SourceSafe to TortoiseSVN. I am looking for a Diff/Merge tool that is > > compatible with FrameMaker 9. > > There is none... Which is ok because when you add a Framemaker file to your > Subversion repository, it'll be treated as a binary file and SVN won't > diff/merge it anyway. > > SVN allows multiple developers to simultaneously modify line-based > source-code files, but it will not allow multiple developers to > simultaneously modify Framemaker files. Under SVN, your editing process > will be as it was under VSS: Frame files will be editable by only one person > at a time. > > -Andrew > > === Andrew Warren - awar...@synaptics.com > === Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as gyanesh.tal...@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/gyanesh.talwar%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- Gyanesh Talwar ----------------------------------------------- Official blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/authors?id=868 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/gyntlw LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14855135&trk=tab_pro
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