On 29/09/2010 12:10, Yuvi Masory wrote:
> After a few hours with vbindiff I was able to figure it out.
>
> For the benefit of others:
> There are three reasons two consecutive creations of the "same" PDF will
> have a diff.
> 1) CreatDate/ModDate - solved by removing.
> 2) BaseFont names have a randomly generated prefix - solved by using the
> same seed each time for the random generation.
> 3) The PDF's trailer includes a randomly generated String as its file ID

Yes, but we WANT (and in some cases we NEED) two consecutive creations
of the "same" PDF to be different, so the patch may work for you, but
it's not eligible to go in the main distribution... This was probably
not your intention, I think you provided the patch to help other people
with the same requirements you have.

That's fine of course, thank you for the feedback!

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