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DP Roberts · Dec 13, 2003, 11:32 AM

Adobe says Version Cue is only available as part of the Creative Suite. Their site is a bit vague about what it does and how to use it. ...or is it a simple as it appears on the site. Hardly seems worthwhile for a single user. Can anybody comment from experience? What are you using it for?

larkost · Dec 14, 2003, 12:13 PM

VersionCue is a content versioning system. This allows for two things: having a history of the saved files (including comments along the way), and dealing with multiple people working on the same projects.

The document history allows you to go back and work with an older version of a file. This can be quite nice if suddenly your manager decided that the project took a wrong turn, and they want it more like you used to have it (ie.. they changed their mind). Also having the comments and check-in dates (not to mention a central repository) can eliminate a lot of the where did I last put that file... the one without the zit... and what did I call it? problems.

And all of this can be done with multiple people with their hands in the cookie jar. How else can you handle having one person working on the layout of a page while another is cleaning the teeth (or manufacturing them for 4 year olds...) on the images in the page. Doing that without a CVMS is just asking for problems.

mishap · Dec 14, 2003, 03:12 PM

if you know how to name your files properly it is almost useless.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Dec 14, 2003, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by DP Roberts:
Hardly seems worthwhile for a single user.

It isn't. It was made for group environments.

DP Roberts · Dec 14, 2003, 09:50 PM

Thank you, everybody, for your replies and opinions. After reading more about it and with your help, I decided Version Cue is not needed. Further, if I did choose to use it, it would add unwanted complexity... "Keep it simple" by using standard methods suits me better at this time.

Instead, I upgraded to Photoshop CS today, and may upgrade the other applications contained in the suite as needed.

Immortal K-Mart Employee · Dec 14, 2003, 10:27 PM

Originally posted by DP Roberts:
Thank you, everybody, for your replies and opinions. After reading more about it and with your help, I decided Version Cue is not needed. Further, if I did choose to use it, it would add unwanted complexity... "Keep it simple" by using standard methods suits me better at this time.

Instead, I upgraded to Photoshop CS today, and may upgrade the other applications contained in the suite as needed.

Don't forget if you turn it on it also eats 128 megs of RAM.

veryniceguy2002 · Dec 15, 2003, 06:32 AM

Originally posted by larkost:
VersionCue is a content versioning system. This allows for two things: having a history of the saved files (including comments along the way), and dealing with multiple people working on the same projects.

Does Version Cue allow to branch or merge versions like CVS? If I made the new revision of the document does it save the new (or previous) version as a seperate document, or save it as a delta (and save space)?

larkost · Dec 15, 2003, 02:15 PM

No deltas a far as I can tell... just the raw files. But since only the smallest of files are text, and the rest are binaries (think photoshop), deltas and merges are not necessarily good things.

Oh, and mishap, you obviously don't work with other people, or with tight deadlines on complex documents. Having full text comments on files is wonderful.