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Re: comparing documents with conditional text in FrameMaker
Subject:Re: comparing documents with conditional text in FrameMaker From:"Mayur Polepalli" <dbmayur -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Mseidel -at- triseptsolutions -dot- com" <Mseidel -at- triseptsolutions -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:25:57 +0800
I had the same issue some time back. I saved both documents as HTML
and compared the docs using WinMerge. It worked just fine :)
Cheers!
On 10/30/07, Mseidel -at- triseptsolutions -dot- com <Mseidel -at- triseptsolutions -dot- com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I inherited two sets of FrameMaker documents. The content of both is nearly
> identical, with minor variations.
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> To simplify the update process, I've decided to use conditional text on each
> pair of "twin" documents. Making them conditional was easy enough, but I
> can't figure out how display one tag and compare it with the matching
> original. It seems like each time I do this, the applied condition gets
> overwritten and it compares to the original using both conditional tags.
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> I know that I can compare the new documents to each of their original
> counterparts manually, but I figured it would be easier to let Frame do it
> for me!
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> Let me know if you have any ideas or if you need me to clarify.
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> Thanks!
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> Michael Seidel
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