Thank you again, I will try this later, when I have time again to work on this. I will let you know about the results.
Andreas On 20 Jul 2003 at 13:32, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 7:52 PM +0200 7/19/03, Andreas Probst wrote: > >Thank you both Matt and Leonard for your replies. Unfortunately > >they don't really make me hope to find a solution. :-( > > The only solution involves a LOT of internal knowledge about PDF > and a LOT of time to develop such a tool. My company did some > work for a client related to PDF comparing - it took us a good > 3-4 months to develop a solution that worked reliably and we were > starting with all the necessary PDF processing tools and know > how... > > > >Matt, I've already tried the approach with Ghostscript. I > >converted the PDF into Postscript and PCL. > > Wrong idea. > > I think Matt's idea was to just create a raster image JPEG, > TIFF, PNG) and then compare the raster output. That will > certainly tell you some things - but again, it's far from > perfect. > > > >I'd need to confirm that the print output is the same as before: > >i.e. text and structure. > > The only CORRECT way to do that is to do extremely low level PDF > analysis... > > > > Leonard > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer > <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. > 215-629-3700 (voice) > 215-629-0789 (fax) > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
