Back

If your email is not recognized and you believe it should be, please contact us.

  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.Login

Can anyone help me compare 2 indesign files?

Tagged: 

Return to Member Forum

  • Author
    Posts
    • November 14, 2016 at 6:36 pm #89749
      Dave Williams
      Member

      I have a 200 page document with text and tables. It has 4 proof stages with changes to the text at each stage.

      Is anyone aware of any indesign plugins or software that will compare the text in my latest version (proof 4) with the original indesign file (proof 1) and show tracked changes? I have a blacklining plugin but this only shows the differences from the last proof (proof 3).

      I’ve tried converting the documents to word to create a compare file but I lose the formatting on the tables and it needs to be exactly as the indesign file.

      I’ve also compared PDFs in Acrobat but Acrobat doesn’t show the tracking as I’d like it to.

      Any help would be appreciated.
      Thanks.

    • November 15, 2016 at 12:25 am #89750
      Paolo Agostinetto
      Member

      If the content is not sensitive, try an online compare tool like this: https://draftable.com/compare

      Otherwise, this one is good too (https://www.inetsoftware.de/products/pdf-content-comparer) but doesn’t come for free and it’s for Windows (you’ll need Virtualbox, Parallels or another virtualization software to run it).

    • November 15, 2016 at 6:10 pm #89783
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Here’s another option with InDesign: https://creativepro.com/document-differencing.php
      and
      https://www.premediasystems.com/pdf-comparator.html

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 reply threads
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Forum Ads