Re: Output from NIST test suite

2004-01-03 Thread Finn Bock
[Carmelo Montanez] Hi Folks: Somehow the final copy of the test suite was not uploaded to either our server at NIST or W3C. I uploaded a copy of the latest suite version to the following link: http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/carmelo/formattingObjectsSuite123103.zip I will make sure it is at the W

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2004-01-03 Thread Finn Bock
[Bernd Brandstetter] in your GhostScript installation there should also exist a gswin32c.exe which runs in console mode and therefore doesn't open a GUI window every time. And indeed there is. Boy, I feel stupid now. Thank you for the pointer. regards, finn

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2004-01-03 Thread Bernd Brandstetter
Hi, in your GhostScript installation there should also exist a gswin32c.exe which runs in console mode and therefore doesn't open a GUI window every time. Bye, Bernd On Saturday 03 January 2004 00:35, Finn Bock wrote: > [Jeremias Maerki] > > I drive ghostscript with a bash script like this: >

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2004-01-02 Thread Finn Bock
[Jeremias Maerki] You may also want to check the mailing list archives. Especially Joerg and I have discussed this a number of times. GhostScript paired with an image differ would be my favourite approach. Thanks for the tip about Ghostscript, I got it working and together with the NIST suite it

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-31 Thread Carmelo Montanez
Hi Folks: Somehow the final copy of the test suite was not uploaded to either our server at NIST or W3C. I uploaded a copy of the latest suite version to the following link: http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/carmelo/formattingObjectsSuite123103.zip I will make sure it is at the W3c and NIST server s

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki
You may also want to check the mailing list archives. Especially Joerg and I have discussed this a number of times. GhostScript paired with an image differ would be my favourite approach. On 25.12.2003 16:12:44 Finn Bock wrote: > Another way of using the test suite could be to compare a binary ima

Re: AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 05:29, Peter Kullmann wrote: > J. Pietschmann wrote: > > > > John Austin wrote: > > > RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' > > that will > > > convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be > > > comparable. > > ... > > >It would

AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread J.U. Anderegg
> Peter Kullmann wrote: > > As an alternative approach for c) one could create tests along > the following lines: Suppose you want to test left margin > properties of a block. For this a simple fo file is rendered as > a bitmap. The bitmap will not be compared to a reference bitmap > but some eleme

AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread Peter Kullmann
J. Pietschmann wrote: > > John Austin wrote: > > RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' > that will > > convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be > > comparable. > ... > >It would certainly help detect pixel-sized changes. > > That might help regr

Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' that will convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be comparable. ... >It would certainly help detect pixel-sized changes. That might help regression testing. We need regression tests badly. Some

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 11:42, Finn Bock wrote: > Hi, > > After 'fixing' the master-reference issue in my copy of the NIST test > suite, I ran the tests against 0.20.5 and 1.0dev and merged the result > side by side into a single .pdf file. > > You can download the result (1Mb) here: > > htt

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread Finn Bock
After 'fixing' the master-reference issue in my copy of the NIST test suite, I ran the tests against 0.20.5 and 1.0dev and merged the result side by side into a single .pdf file. [John Austin] Interesting technique. What tool do you use to make the side-by-side comparison ? This java program:

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 11:42, Finn Bock wrote: > Hi, > > After 'fixing' the master-reference issue in my copy of the NIST test > suite, I ran the tests against 0.20.5 and 1.0dev and merged the result > side by side into a single .pdf file. Interesting technique. What tool do you use to make the

Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread Finn Bock
Hi, After 'fixing' the master-reference issue in my copy of the NIST test suite, I ran the tests against 0.20.5 and 1.0dev and merged the result side by side into a single .pdf file. You can download the result (1Mb) here: http://bckfnn-modules.sf.net/out-0.20.5-1.0.pdf For some reason the