FM Compare Books Utility

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
April 2, 2014
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Hello fellows,

I have recently tested the "Compare Books" utility available in FM10. It works well except for the following:

1. Does not create a BookCMP file, so if you would like to create a book out of the resulting CMP files, you have to create such a book or rename the CMP files and put them back in the original book.

2. When comparing changes between tables, Framemaker does not highlight the changes but just brings the 2 versions of the same table into the CMP file, which is really confusing.

I wonder if anybody else uses this feature and how you deal with these 2 problems.

Thanks!

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Gloria_Mc

Known Participant

A little late to join this thread, but we just upgraded from FM 8 to FM 12. Extremely disappointed with Adobe that they have not improved the table comparison capabilities. My workaround is to copy the old/new tables into Word and compare them in Word. Irritating and inconvenient. Adobe should be ashamed.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

#2. That's been true in all versions of FM. The entire table will be highlighted as different - not the rows or cells that actually are. Note: Acrobat has a fairly powerful compare documents feature that might work better if you have many tables.