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Chris Bowditch commented on FOP-2854: ------------------------------------- I don't see how fixing the create date to the Unix Epoch will help you compare linux distros either. As I mentioned above if you regenerate a PDF File, internal IDs could change as well as the date. So an alternative means of comparing PDFs within Linux distros is needed. Or perhaps a PDF should be treated as static when rebuilding the Linux distro > CreationDate in PDF metadata breaks reproducible builds > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FOP-2854 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2854 > Project: FOP > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: renderer/pdf > Affects Versions: 2.3 > Environment: Debian GNU/Linux > Reporter: Filippo Rusconi > Priority: Major > > Greetings, > I would like to report that the CreationDate value that is set in the PDF > file changes at each run. This is problematic because that makes it > impossible to run FOP in the context of reproducible builds (see > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). > Would it be possible to create an option to set that date value manually or > some equivalent solution to this problem ? > Thank you so much for your work on FOP ! > Regards, > Filippo -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.14#76016)