PDFdiff: A PDF File Comparison Script

Timothy Eyre

Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu (2010)

  • Volume: 020, Issue: 3, page 208-214
  • ISSN: 1211-6661

Abstract

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A Python script can be used to take two pdf files and automatically process them with pdftk, Ghostscript, ImageMagick and XeTeX to produce a pdf file that shows the differences between the two input files.

How to cite

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Eyre, Timothy. "PDFdiff: A PDF File Comparison Script." Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu 020.3 (2010): 208-214. <http://eudml.org/doc/298694>.

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References

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  1. Kanji Stroke Order Font and Choumei Font, http://www.nihilist.org.uk/ 
  2. pdfinfo, http://www.glyphandcog.com/ 
  3. Steward, Sid, pdftk: The PDF Toolkit, http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ 
  4. Ghostscript, http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ 
  5. ImageMagick, http://www.imagemagick.org/ 

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