Re: [IEEE 1788]: Post-ballot comment
On 2015-02-11 16:40:50 +0000, John Pryce wrote:
> Christian: I think this is a time when it would be very useful to do
> a "latexdiff" of this against the version that was submitted for
> sponsor ballot. Are you able to do that?
In the mean time, my pdfwdiff script (attached) can be useful to
see text changes between two PDF files. The output can be piped
to "less -R".
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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# Diffs two PDF files using pdftotext and wdiff.
emulate -LR zsh
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]] then
echo "Usage: pdfwdiff [diff_options] file1.pdf file2.pdf" >&2
return 1
fi
diff -u "$@[1,-3]" <(pdftotext "$@[-2]" -) <(pdftotext "$@[-1]" -) | \
wdiff -n -w $'\033[30;41m' -x $'\033[0m' -y $'\033[30;42m' -z $'\033[0m' -d
# $Id: pdfwdiff 56518 2012-11-22 09:39:03Z vinc17/xvii $