Compare Suite Light helped to quickly analyze the two legal texts derived from two different sides for further signing.

Dmitry Baranov, Head of ATM service Department, Credit Bank of Moscow, Russia

Compare Suite Light is a convenient, fast and functional tool for the analysis of legal texts (contracts and supplemental agreements). Helps detect differences after edits of the counterparty, to minimize the probability of signing a contract in two different editions, and thus minimize the risk of signing agreements on unfavorable terms. Easy to use, easy to install. Export to file the comparison makes it easy and quick to make reports.

Great tool.  Thanks

I plan to offer my customers a service to optimize usage of disk space that they rent in my datacenter. I hope to use your tool for this.

Yury Stepanov, ItFin, Russia

I can say that the Compare Suite Standard has sufficient functionality for most tasks of datcenter administrator. However there’s not enough documentation for Compare Suite Standard Edition for the results of comparison. It makes additional difficulties to integrate your product into a single software environment. It would be useful to have access to objects of automation (COM).

Despite differences in comments files are identified as identical

The latest version of Compare Suite makes it possible to ignore comments in source codes, such as Delphi, PHP, Java, C# and C++. This feature is enabled and disabled in Ignore section of Options menu. As said above, comments are not meaningful since they are not parts of codes. In some cases, it is reasonable to compare comments too, for example, to review versions of comparison files and source codes in detail. Thus, depending on requirements of comparison, users may either enable or disable comments ignoring feature in Compare Suite. In the majority of instances, comments are not meaningful. It is important to load files with correct extensions that are currently supported by Compare Suite (Delphi, PHP, Java, C# and C++).

Ignore comments in source files

As known, Compare Suite also can recognize source codes of some programming languages and highlight those parts of text which are recognized as programming language code, for instance, HTML, C#, PHP. It is convenient to compare parts of codes and “normal texts” inside codes. Comments ignoring feature for source codes makes CS an efficient tool both for code comparison and team work in software development. It is not a secret that the best way to find bugs and errors in new code versions is to contrast them against older app codes. This ignoring feature works only for source codes, not ordinary texts.

Very effective tool for assisting in the removal of disk space wasting files including image and document files.

Charles McIntosh, Service officer, Registers of Scotland, Edinburgh Scotland

This is a First rate well developed product, it is relatively easy to deploy and in terms of “getting to know” has been designed to encourage regular PC users to perform intuitively, it is fundamentally straightforward to use.The system also has well designated powerful features which can assist in advancing the organisation of the file/folder status within the structure of the users it system. There is also an attractive visual appeal and this engages use by the individual.

We use your product to compare a library of program distributive with etalon archive copy of the same programs after each antivirus scan.

Yury Stepanov, IT Director, Itfin, Russia, Moscow

Your product have functional enough for our purposes. We use your product as a command-line as in GUI mode. Sometimes your product detects differences in identical files. Apparently this is due to the different attributes that Windows not considered significant. This feature of your product we use for tracking an unscheduled file access and improve security. I would like to be able to fine-tune the structure of the report on the comparison directory. Also I would like to be able to configure ERRORLEVEL value when using the command line, depending on the type of differences.

We use Compare Suite to compare versions or upgrades of my reports, to identify corrections, errors etc. in the document made by my colleagues.

Bedrich Weber, Researcher, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Firstly I’d like to emphasize that:
1. I have only a short time experience with the free “Light” version.
2. I’m seriously visually impaired (using screen enlargement) but I’ve found the “Light” version very helpful and therefore a “Standard” version seems to be very promising.

I’ve found “Light” version very easy to use (simply “plug and play”) without careful reading a Manual. Obviously more complex “Standard” version would require more careful manual reading to use all available possibilities. Identification of differences between texts was easy and fast even for me as a visually impaired due to perfect highlighting. It was helpful also to discover minor e.g. random typing errors when upgrading a document.

Compare Suite is useful application:

Comparing various Word, PDF, HTML documents for differences in versions. I also have a few apps that require a comparison tool to be used to tell differences between document versions.

It proves to be a very useful application when I am looking through hundreds of documents that can span many months or even years of age. Compare Suite makes the work all that much easier and much more efficient and neat. I can’t imagine there is another piece of software out there that can do what Compare suite does so excellently. I have really enjoyed having this app in my tool box. Thanks for the great software.

Comparison of HTML pages is easier than ever

Compare Suit users from now on enjoy two types of HTML comparison: basic comparison (it is necessary to save HTML pages to your local drive) and a new HTML comparison feature which contrasts web pages just as they appear on the web, i.e. not as collection of images and code entities. Thus, HTML pages are displayed just as they are displayed in a web browser. Compare Suite uses traditional ways to highlight changes – various color schemes. Besides, it is possible to analyze changes in Preview mode or in DOM tree. The latter option is great if a user wants to review HTML code.

The new HTML comparison feature is quite helpful since sometime it is easier to look at web pages as they appear online, but not analyze code and text in between the line. However, IT savvy users may still compare codes by switching to DOM tree where all tags and HTML code is structured. Those who are interested in traditional HTML comparison may use Compare Source feature (bottom right button).

Avoid undesired indication of changes by applying comparison by broken lines

Comparison by broken lines is integrated in new Compare Suite version as a separate comparison method. So, to be able to compare documents by this principle, choose relevant option from comparison method box in the left upper corner. If documents have no differences but broken lines they will be identified as identical which may simplify comparison task for lots of CS users.

Enjoy the new 3 way comparison feature

3-way comparison is perfect to contrast, for instance, two versions of a contract with an original agreement version. If the 2-way comparison method implies individual contrasting of each version with the original, the newer method makes things easier since users may contrast the two versions with one another as well as see differences with the ancestor document.

Traditionally, it is possible to merge documents and folders, i.e. to apply differences, which is very convenient if a huge number of docs are to be revised. The 3 way comparison methods keeps all features of two-way contrasting. For example, it is possible to compare selected parts of text, contrast files and directories located at remote ftp folders, use syntax highlighting (very beneficial for programmers) apply different comparison methods, like char by char or word by word etc.

Who will benefit from introduction of a 3 way comparison? Basically, all users who frequently compare multiple files with the ancestor doc will find this new feature helpful. This comparison type might be effectively used in merging of folders to integrate whole parts of apps source codes. Traditionally, 3 way comparison is perfect for version control tools and cms applications.