Re: Document Control

[Grant <rowan@xxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm....If you can hang on another week, I suspect you will see an
announcement of a product that might allow them to "correct" the
document, without you haveing to let them have the original to muck
about with.
I'd say more, but I signed an NDA.

I will say that this new version of an inexpensive existing product
will allow for multiple on-line reviews, easy editorial/content
markup, and will be as easy to use with Frame as Acrobat is now.  

Grant
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At 01:23 PM 2/9/99 -0800, kai.wyrill@conexant.com wrote:
>Hi framers,
>
>Our tech pubs mgr wants to let the engineers do online editing of
their docs--in
>Frame!--rather than giving us writers, editors, and desktop
publishers redlines
>on hard copy or .doc or .txt files to incorporate.  We worker bees
would rather
>see redlines, etc., but have agreed tentatively to explore the
option of using a
>filter to save the existing Frame .bk as a Word doc for them to
tinker with, so
>we can see the revisions (if they will consent to turn tracking
on--we think
>Word's tracking feature works more efficiently than Frame's change
bars).
>
>No amount of sound argument is about to change his or the engineer's
(or,
>possibly, engineers') mind(s). Aside from having to treat every
revision as a
>completely new document, what other problems are we likely to
encounter? (For
>this example, assume our doc is ~200 pages with a figure or table on
every third
>page.) And, is this the direction tech pubs departments are
>heading--relinquishing more control of the docs to the engineers?
>
>Pls cc me as I am on digest,
>
>TIA
>
>kai.wyrill@conexant.com
>http://www.conexant.com
>
>
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