Diff Utils - file and folder compare tools » UNIX http://www.diffutils.com Reviews of Comparison Software Sat, 15 May 2010 16:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 EC Merge Pro http://www.diffutils.com/office-document-comparison/ec-merge-pro.html http://www.diffutils.com/office-document-comparison/ec-merge-pro.html#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:06:08 +0000 Bob Johnson http://www.diffutils.com/office-document-comparison/ec-merge-pro.html New version of EC Merge Pro 2.2.100 a powerful comparison tool from Elle Computing has been released. EC Merge provides for side-by-side, two- and three-way diff/merge for files and folders, secure automatic merge. image_tmp011.jpg       EC Merge has such types of comparison available:  
  • File Comparison – option for comparison as text documents and also files that have text structure: program source, xml and the latest versions of Microsoft Word and Open Office documents. 
  • Folder Comparison – option for comparison packs of files in several directories, merge and synchronize them.
  • Image Comparison – is very interesting feature.  There’s a possibility to compare two images with the common ancestor, using three-way comparison interface. EC Merge Pro supports a large number of image formats. Each image is displayed in two or three panels: Original, Diff with Right/Left several comparison algorithms are available (differencing per channel, numerical component difference, attenuating similarities).

EC Merge Pro has two modes available for the work:

  • Graphical interface –this is a standard mode that provides all functionality of the program in graphical mode:  user can do all actions as in similar windowed applications.
  • Command line interface – in this mode is possibly to make all actions that available in graphical mode in command line from comparison to merging and generating reports.

Report generation is important part of comparison programs. EC Merge Pro has extensive report functionality. The program is able to generate reports as for file and folders as well. Files and folders report can be generated in XML, HTML, Text and CSV format. EC Merge Pro supports third-party converters that allowing to convert PDF and Microsoft Office documents to plain text and extract files from ZIP/RAR archives. At the end of this month a new version of EC Merge Pro will be released. In EC Merge  2.2.102 will be added Microsoft Word DOC converter to compare  directly the text (DOC format 97/2007) as rather interesing and useful feature. Interface of the program is multilingual. 

EC Merge Pro is available in several languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.                  

EC Merge is developed fro the most popular platforms and can be running on Windows, Unix and MacOS systems. 

Evaluate EC Merge (Windows)               

Order EC Merge Pro (Windows) 

   The program is not free. There are two variants to evaluate and check functionality:   

  1. You can try demo with limited features for file and folder comparison;  
  2. You can get a free serial number for unlimited feature evaluation for one month from help section of EC Merge. 

Full version can be purchased for $60 as single license.  

]]> http://www.diffutils.com/office-document-comparison/ec-merge-pro.html/feed 0 Meld http://www.diffutils.com/project-revision-control/meld.html http://www.diffutils.com/project-revision-control/meld.html#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:59:10 +0000 Bob Johnson http://www.diffutils.com/project-revision-control/meld.html      Meld it’s small diff and merge tool (less than 1 MB) from Stephen Kennedy. These applications are assigned for visual identification differences in files, folders and merge them if it’s required.meld1.pngVisually interface of Meld is ascetical – means that there are only the most necessary functions available in the main window: file, edit, settings and help sections.There are a few indispensable buttons to make work with the program faster and helpful as it’s possible:•   New comparison – dialog to choose objects for comparison either files or directories (you are able to open more than two files or directories and edit them in place dynamically);•   Save – possibility to save comparison results then use it for your needs (edit, print etc.);•  Redo and Undo – buttons to discard or return changes in comparison results;•   Cursors Up and Down – allows to moving up and down between differences to make view and work with changes easier and demonstrable;•   Stop – button to stop comparison.So there are no difficulties also for inexperienced user to start working with this program. Besides basically features of file and directory comparison Meld has very useful feature: browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaarng and Mercurial etc.Also one of advantages is full i18n support it means that Meld adapted to different languages and regional differences – 18 stands for the number of letters are available to work with: bg, ca, cs, de, en_CA, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, ne, nl, pa, pt, pt_BR, ru, rw, sr, sr@Latn, sv, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW. It’s very helpful because one of the problems of similar software is impossibility to work with international characters correctly.meld2.png       Meld is published by GPL license so it’s absolutely free. Currently this application is available for Linux and Mac platforms.

]]> http://www.diffutils.com/project-revision-control/meld.html/feed 0 Guiffy http://www.diffutils.com/integration-with-version-control-systems/guiffy.html http://www.diffutils.com/integration-with-version-control-systems/guiffy.html#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:54:19 +0000 Bob Johnson http://www.diffutils.com/uncategorized/guiffy.html       Guiffy Software (http://www.guiffy.com/) released version 8.4 of their comparison product. Let’s take a look.Guiffy 8.4 is a Java application, so virtual Java machine must to be installed in your system to run the program (my Java Runtime Environment 6 with update 6 correctly recognized and program was started). Distributive size is about 31 megabytes and installed to 87 megabytes.This program is shareware, so after running yon can either run 21-day evaluation version with restriction to 321 lines per file or request temporary registration key to discard this restriction. I’ve filled in a form on the site but unfortunately didn’t receive temporary key, so I tried with small files.1.JPG       Interface of Guiffy is very simple and clear; you can find most of necessary functions available as button in the main window: diff, merge, and folder compare options, etc. Open files/folders dialog allow to not only choose required files/folders for comparison but can also help you to merge differences in files after comparison to the first or the second choosen file. Of course standard comparison is also available so you can see differences or changes in the files on split window and edit or correct if needed. Report in Guiffy is the full copy of compare window just generated into HTML. It’s very interested feature as data in the report absolutely the same as you see it in comparison window. You can easily open report in any suitable editor and correct it or just print from your favorite browser with all appearance.2.JPG       Very useful feature is command line interface and possibility of integration with the most popular CM systems: AccuRev, Allfusion Harvest, ClearCase, CMSynergy, Dimensions, MKS Integrity, Perforce, PVCS, StarTeam, and           Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.As Java-based Guiffy is cross-platform application so can be used on operation systems like: Windows, Linux, MacOS, and UNIX.A Single User license costs $66(dollars U.S.) and entitles you to use Guiffy on an unlimited number of platforms. Includes 12 months of Support, Updates, and Upgrades.

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