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I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called two of our editors over excitedly and showed it to them. They both literally shouted with joy. Then we saw that it was Windows-only. The publishing industry runs on Macs. Please, develop for OS X. I can't think of a single person in publishing who wouldn't happ…
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You know what? I'm gonna start doing this. This is a tool that could help improve journalism in some circumstances. It would help society as well as biz if someone made this.
Cool. We're big fans of what you're doing at DocumentCloud. I originally got into this because I wanted a similar tool for LaTeX (my background is in physics), but after understanding how bad the existing version control tools for business documents were, we just had to start there.
Spreadsheet Inquire (need to enable an included COM add-in which requires .Net 4) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/what-you-can-do...
Compare (included in Word by default) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/compare-is-under...
> http://zenmagiclove.com/phrase-change-sample.html
> http://zenmagiclove.com/phrase-change-display.html
you likely want to stick with your side-by-side display.
(as it seems that you feel this is your primary advantage.)
but still, isolating the changes so that they occur on a phrase which is presented coherently on its own line is something i believe you would find improves results.
i've got lots more to come, and am actively working on this.
-bowerbird
I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called two of our editors over excitedly and showed it to them. They both literally shouted with joy. Then we saw that it was Windows-only. The publishing industry runs on Macs. Please, develop for OS X. I can't think of a single person in publishing who wouldn't happ…
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It's definitely built-in. You just haven't found it yet. ;)
Do you mean the "View Side by Side" feature? It's not particularly useful: it just arranges two document windows so that they're next to each other and then scrolls them at the same rate. There's no diff computed, so there's no markup of changes, and the documents get out of sync if they have insertions or deletions.
I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called two of our editors over excitedly and showed it to them. They both literally shouted with joy. Then we saw that it was Windows-only. The publishing industry runs on Macs. Please, develop for OS X. I can't think of a single person in publishing who wouldn't happ…
I agree. Windows only? Are you insane? Mac OS may only have a minority of the consumer desktop market, but it dominates publishing and graphic design. For the life of me, I don't understand why developers go out of their way to ignore a platform that is used by professionals who actually PAY for software.
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Do you mean the "View Side by Side" feature? It's not particularly useful: it just arranges two document windows so that they're next to each other and then scrolls them at the same rate. There's no diff computed, so there's no markup of changes, and the documents get out of sync if they have insertions or deletions.
I think he may have been joking about the fact that Office is bloatware, and somewhere in that bloat, may hide a half assed diff tool.
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I agree. Windows only? Are you insane? Mac OS may only have a minority of the consumer desktop market, but it dominates publishing and graphic design. For the life of me, I don't understand why developers go out of their way to ignore a platform that is used by professionals who actually PAY for software.
Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running on Windows machines?
The reason this tool is worth $99/year to someone like me is that I need it for publishing, not coding or simple business document comparison. It's a nice thing to have if you're an office worker, but not vital, and probably not something you'll be able to get your boss to pay for.
In the publishing world, on the other hand, it's a critical function that would save untold hours of paid editors' time.
For anything other than publishing, there are "good enough" tools already out there. It's very surprising to me that it wasn't developed as a Mac solution first.