Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 16 September 2010 23:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? Thanks. aptitude search pdf: diffpdf available in squeezeandsid you may have alook at backport. Thierry --

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe Acrobat Professional products, but diffpdf suggested by Thierry is worth

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 22:54, Mike Viau wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? I've

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:07:52 +1000 prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: While it's not Adobe Professional I like flpsed - it'll do most of what you require. Generally I find it easier to just do everything as a document and export the pdf. Foomatic-rip is useful too.

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:54:52 -0400, Mike Viau wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + wrote: I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe Acrobat Professional products, but diffpdf suggested by Thierry is worth a try. What is the closest GNU/Debian equivalent to Adobe Professional? I

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz wrote: Dne Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be napsal(a): AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What about printing both to PostScript and diff-ing

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
T o n g wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What do you want to compare? Just the content, or format layout, etc included? Just the

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:54:52AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-16 Thread alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz
Dne Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be napsal(a): AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What about printing both to PostScript and diff-ing the results? Al. -- Tato