PDF compare

[polites]

Good Day!

Do anyone of you guys know any good software to compare PDFs? specially in detecting word for word, and its emphasis (bold, italic, bold italics)?

Thanks

[cari]

Polites,

Can you ellaborate a bit more?
What is it exactly that you want to compare your PDF with?
Are you looking at comparing multiple versions of the same PDF? i.e. tracking changes etc?

Adobe Acrobat has a compare feature in which changes made to a PDF can be tracked.

[polites]

I think Adobe acrobat can't detect if it has an emphasis (italic or bold) for example I have a word on the original PDF "sample" in italic then I compare it on the second modified PDF wherein the word "sample" is in roman... Adobe acrobat can't detect its emphasis (i think)

[cari]

Artificial Bolds and Italics are not embedded in a PDF as far as I'm aware.

I.e. if the true bold/italics version of the font is missing, the roman version will be embedded (or from some applications "courier" will be used as a replacement font).

You can check font properties with the use of the Text Touch-up tool (properties) in Acrobat, alternatively use Enfocus PitStop's text tool to highlight text and view properties (use the inspector palette for this).

If you compare the font settings for both PDF, I'm sure you'll find that the one with Bold and Italics is actually pointing to a "true" font, not an artificial style.

Cheers

[polites]

Thanks I've seen the other options in Acrobat 6 Pro

If your using Acrobat 3-5 versions I think it cannot detect the artificial empahsis

Can you suggest any software other than acrobat?

Thanks again

[cari]

With Enfocus Pitstop you may make document wide font changes (Global Change dialog box).

PitStop's preflight profiling can be set-up to automatically detect artificial font styles.

Open the files in a wordprocessor as text file, do a compare.
Compare utilities available in TextPad/Windiff/Beyond Compare......... :wink: