Re: QUESTION:diff of files with tables?

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

> How can I vividly show the differences between Frame files containing
> tables when material in tables has been updated? Seems the 'diff' utility
> doesn't work on text inside tables.

That's right, it's a (severe) limitation of the Compare function.

One way would be to save your documents, then convert all tables to
text, compare the documents, and then revert to the saved versions.
Since the tables are converted to text, they will be compared like
all other text. I haven't done this in practice, though, so I cannot
tell you how cumbersome or precise it would be.

I guess you could write a FrameScript, or even a MIF utility,
or find a 3rd-party utility (even though I haven't heard of any).


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