lbellonda/confrontapdf

ConfrontaPDF compares PDF files, GUI or command line

confrontapdf's Issues

Layout/linebreaking is not compared

The comparision does cover words or characters but not layout or linebreaking

Linebreaking even without hyphens should be considered a difference. The line in boldface are different, the hyphen is spotted correctly.

Tried to use the visual difference but that resulted in massive differences on almost every page in a large PDF with more than 1000 pages and very few relevant differences in text and layout.

I guess reason is the use of TextBox from poppler which does not cover layout. The tool pdftotext -layout does provide the differences in layout when I do a diff on the text that can be found.

I would propose a forth mode of comparison "line-by-line" applying the methods from pdftotext.

p166_vor.pdf
p166.pdf

Missing icon in Windows version

Pinning the program in the task bar of Windows 7 should show the program icon and not a generic one.
Version: 1.0.0

If top and bottom margin is set , few of the pages do not get into result pdf

Top and bottom margin were set using ini file, few the pages are getting excluded from comparison. We had 2 pdfs with 24 pages in one and 25 in other. If compared with top and bottom marked as 0, there we get 24 pages in compare pdf where as if top margin is set to 300 and bottom to 200 with exclude true then only 18 pages are there in compared result pdf.

Confrontapdf compiling steps

Hi.
I really admire your work and i want to add some features.
But when i follow your readme steps i cant.
Please can you provide me with more detailed steps (with links of qt , poppler) and espacially how to install poppler and get the header files for qt.
This is my private email : [email protected]

Insert font info in the tests

Check optionally fonts and font embedding conditions:

• font differences
• require that all the fonts are embedded.

Reporting optionally information about fonts.

In the XML report, in the info section of the files, write info about used fonts, and insert a new option to exclude them for performance reasons.