Indesign File comparison tool

Hello, is there any tool available for indesign files that makes a precise comparison between two indesign documents? I need this for making sure of corrections made in documents i have. Idealy it would work as a search function and enable the comparison of two different documents and highight any changes made between the two. Thanks very much--c

Doesn't this approach only focus on errors?
I am not familiar with Preflight, but when I run it I only get errors.
I struggle with the same comparison issue. I need highly detailed comparisons.
When I try this in Acrobat Pro comparing the PDF outputs of two different InDesign files, it pretty much marks the entire document as changed.
I end up using a 3rd party tool (Araxis Merge) and doing a binary file comparison, then trying to figure out where in the INDD file the changes are.
Cheers.

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Message Edited by jp2labview on 11-14-2007 10:44 AM
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