[Hidden-tech] Need Document Control System

[Lesley Schneider]

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:
> 
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>> 
>> 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
>> 
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Lesley Schneider
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