On 02.07.2003 21:54:59 J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Life sucks.

-1 (veto). Life shouldn't suck. Let's fix it.

> I considered doing the checksum in a SAX filter for a short time.
> This had the added benefit of making XML comments and some other
> issues which don't influence the rendered result having no
> influence on the checksum. The drawback: attributes need to be
> sorted before feeding them into the digester. Any other pitfalls
> to watch?

Good idea. I can see no other pitfalls ATM.

> > I'd still favor the PDF2TIFF with visual diffing approach using
> > GhostScript.
> 
> Yeah, but what if something invisible was screwed, or the difference
> got lost due to pixelation during rendering? Think of off-by-one
> errors in border placement calculations.

Point. So we need both.


Jeremias Maerki


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