<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks all for your inputs.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Vadim, I'll give it a try. I tried Inet
PDF comparison software and it seems to do the job but that's an extra
licence (and the IT team will say:"why do you need another tool, you
already have Acrobat?!").</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Trevor, I will also look at the fonts.
However, for the layers, my understanding was that XEP does not support
PDF layers so I'm not sure what I should look at?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here are the two main use cases for
me to compare PDF files (both generated by XEP):</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">a) I have project requirements
(unique identifiers) set up as conditional text in my source files and
I generate two PDFs from the same ditamap: one with the requirements, one
without. The requirements are traced and verified/tested in the PDF with
requirements (!) but the "official" PDF (that we give to our
customers) is the one without the requirements. The company Quality team
wants me to prove that the only differences between the two PDFs are the
requirements but that the rest of the content is exactly the same.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">b) After the initial release of the
documents, they are regularly revised. In this case, comparisons are made
to make sure only the content that needed corrections had been modified
and that we didn't create "regressions".<br>
Regarding the XML temp file used to generate the PDF, I suggested the program
manager to use it in his traceability tool (Reqtify) but it doesn't work.
I don't know if it's a setup issue or a parser issue (Reqtify does analyze
some "simple" xml files but not the one from my ditamap). But
even if it works, it doesn't answer all my needs. </font>
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
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Re: PDF comparison with Acrobat fails with PDFs generated with XEP</font>
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<br><font size=3>I'd recommend trying out DiffPDF as well to see if it
can compare.<br>
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<br><font size=3>On 31/10/14 02:16, Kevin Brown wrote:</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri">Annette:</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri"> </font>
<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri">Perhaps give us a little
background on what you are looking to do and possibly there are other (even
better) solutions.</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri">For example, on a recent
project another company was looking for identifying differences between
minor composition runs of RenderX.</font>
<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri">We implemented a compare
not of the PDFs, but of the XEP Intermediate XML format that produces the
PDF. This is a much more rich comparison, not relying on a tool to attempt
to interpret a final form document.</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#004080 face="Calibri">Now, I am not sure you are
comparing XEP PDF to XEP PDF or ? </font>
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I got your point Kevin. I doubt they would help me because their tool does
work with some PDFs (based on various forums, it seems that they've had
issues with this tool for a long time and new versions do not solve anything).
I was wondering if there was anything I could do to make it work for my
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IMHO you asking the wrong company a question. You should ask Adobe why
their tool fails on comparing PDFs as that is supposedly what the tool
does. <br>
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Hello XEP community,</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size=3 face="Arial"><br>
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I'm using XEP to generate PDF output from DITA source files. When comparing
two PDF files generated with XEP in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the comparison fails.
When comparing two files generated with Framemaker, the comparison runs
Ok. Is there anything in XEP that I could modify to make sure we can compare
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