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Q&A Tools for multiple creators/writers documentation without clouds

In many companies I've seen it that more than 1 person are writing at the same documentation (be it user manual or technical documentation) for a computer application. What I have seen in usage wa...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Thomas E.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:47:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/12995
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Thomas E.‭ · 2019-12-08T03:47:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
In many companies I've seen it that more than 1 person are writing at the same documentation (be it user manual or technical documentation) for a computer application.

What I have seen in usage was mostly svn in combination with windows word. This combination never worked out quite well and was quite a hindrance as far as I've seen. Other solutions that functioned better for multiple users used clouds to store the data (example google docs) but that could be a problem with company policies in regards to storing important data externally.

So my question would is, if there are any tools that fullfill the following requirements:

- PDF files are generateable
- Does not use an external cloud for storage but instead can either be used locally OR the company using it can setup their own cloud for it
- There is no large overhead for having multiple users work on the same part of the documentation at the same time (or on different parts in the same file)
#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2014-09-30T08:01:35Z (about 10 years ago)
Original score: 2