I better get clearer. This is for a Technical Publications department. Technical manuals written in Word. They were trying to use Sharepoint, but they never managed to make enough room for it on the server. This is a Windows place. They are very set in their ways. Not thrilled with change. I was hoping for something that could be a plug-in to Outlook or Explorer. Does that help? Just want a system for version control, a central place where people can always know they are getting the approved version of a doc in PDF format. And where we can store the original Word files where no one else can mess with them. Thank you again, Lesley On Jun 25, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:53:11 -0400 Lesley Schneider <lesley at hthconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Hi all. I am at a company from the dark ages. They have around 50 people. >> They have no doc control system in place. I need something easy to install >> and use, and cheap. Just for Technical Publications right now. Any >> suggestions? > > What format are these documents in? > > What operating system(s) are you using? > > If the documents are some form a text (eg LaTeX) and the operating system is > some flavor of UNIX/Linux (or if the file server is a UNIX or Linux system), > then any typical Source Code Version control system will work. Something like > Subversion over Apache/DAV (mod_svn_dav). Note: using Subversion over > Apache/DAV is dirt cheap -- it is open source, so there is no cost for the > software, esp. if you already have the UNIX/Linux server in place. > > It *is* possible to use a Source Code Version control system with *binary* > files, you just don't get things like diffs and each 'version' is a complete > copy of the binary file (rather than a set of changed lines). > > >> Thank you, >> Lesley >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> >> > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services > > Lesley Schneider lesley at hthconsulting.com http://www.hthconsulting.com 408-858-3942 Mobile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20150625/4ca13d0e/attachment.html