> On 25 Jan 2018, at 9:41 am, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:50:43PM +1100, Gavin McDonald wrote:
>> As per the subject, I was checking through the forrest svn-site mailing list 
>> archives [1] and noticed that every time (usually David) publishes the 
>> Forrest website, two pdf changes to the same two documents (v13 and v20) are 
>> always published as well - even though they are clearly not part of the 
>> changes that triggered the publish in the first place.
>> 
>> Do we know why? 
> 
> Yes. There is some discussion and issues in the archives, but sorry i have no 
> time to find it.

ack thanks, after I sent this note a bit of deja vu crept in :)

> 
> IIRC, it has something to do with the generation of the PDFs by FOP.
> It rewrites some metadata (perhaps "date") every time.
> 
> As you can see from [1] i just let it deploy anyway.

ok thanks.
> 
> You may find also that there is some generated image that changes for no 
> apparent reason.
> This flip-flops depending on the operating system of the person doing the 
> deployment.
> We have not seen it for a while, as it has been only me doing the publishing.

Ok, lets see what happens when I do it - these days Im on a MAC

Gav…

> 
> -David
> 
>> Gav…
>> 
>> [1] -  
>> https://lists.apache.org/list.html?site-...@forrest.apache.org:2017-10 
>> <https://lists.apache.org/list.html?site-...@forrest.apache.org:2017-10> 
>> 
>>