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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
