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 #9045  by is99
 
How about an option to see compare between different versions of the same document?
For example today in SVN I can compare even Word documents
 #9078  by jllort
 
I've added in our tracking system, it's really interesting and consider it's included in our roadmap.

You can take a look here http://issues.openkm.com/view.php?id=1558

Question, how do think must be presented to user the document comparation and which kind of document consider,might be compared ( microsoft and openoffice, text or more )
 #9112  by is99
 
I think that the best way to do it will be like most of the program do - split the view windows to two and show old and new version and the changed text marked.
SVN, Word and many other programs I know does it the same way. I know that some programs that can't show compare at least open the correct program, for example when I try to compare two Word documents in SVN it opens Word on my PC with these two documents in compare more. I sow this post that may help:
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I simply use the TortoiseSVN diff scripts for this purpose. These are just .js-files, which support some formats (doc/docx, for instance) and open them, turning the application (MS Word) into compare mode. The syntax is pretty clear:
>diff-doc.js file1.doc file2.doc
About the documents type - the more the better, most important is Office documents I think.
 #9127  by pavila
 
But OpenKM is a web application and can't open a Word instance in the client... at least without some ActiveX or Applet work. Any idea?
 #9128  by is99
 
OpenKM does have pulgins for Office, I for example don't care to have ActiveX or software or anything else that I will need to install as long as I will earn Word comparing

For Simple TXT file comparing I guess it can be done without any program in the standard preview windows of OpenKM
 #9204  by pavila
 
Yes, simple TXT comparison is easy. Office or OpenOffice file comparison is more complex. In any case ideas or source code are welcome.

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