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Re: Diff support for PDF files

From: Jared Silva <jayrod_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:17:48 -0500

Ryan J Ollos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> TortoiseSVN has great support for providing diffs of MS Word and MS Excel
> files.  I'm hoping to get some feedback about what solutions others might
> have used to obtain support for diff'ing PDF files using TSVN.
>
> Acrobat 9 has a "Compare Documents" tool, but it appears that Adobe Reader
> does not have this functionality.  Has anyone generated a script that uses
> Acrobat as the external diff tool for the purpose of comparing PDF
> documents?  Or perhaps a script that uses any of the many PDF
> viewers/editors as the diff tool?
>
> Of the external diff tools listed in the TortoiseSVN documentation, only
> Araxis [1] appears to support diff'ing PDF files.
>
> Searching the web, I came across this third party tool [2] that claims to
> support the diff of MS Office, Open Office, and PDF files.  I am somewhat
> hesitant to install this program on my machine, but will probably try it out
> in a VM.  Has anyone else out there used this tool?

I think I tried xdocdiff once, and I think it is text only.

If you use Cygwin, you can try pdftotext, which is part of the xpdf
Cygwin package, which is text only.

You can also try the OpenOffice PDF Import extension
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension),
importing, and then performing a diff using OpenOffice. If you can do
it this way, it is probably scriptable. I have not used this myself.

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