Document comparison

I am trying to compare two PDF's and receive A message "wrong type parameter supplied to a pds procedure" one is Acrobat 5.x and the other one is 7.x

You need to use Acrobat Professional and then the "Optimize PDF" feature and set the PDF version level to a common PDF version level. This assumes you are not comparing forms and one or both of the forms were created with LiveCycle.
The Acrobat forum is just before this one. http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

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I have Adobe Acrobat XI (ver 11.0.07). Adobe Help instructs me to find the document comparison command at "View Compare Documents," however, this command does exist on my screen. My View drop-down list does not include a command for Compare Documents.

I have Adobe Acrobat XI (ver 11.0.07). Adobe Help instructs me to find the document comparison command at "View > Compare Documents," however, this command does exist on my screen. My View drop-down list does not include a command for Compare Documents. Where else can I find this command?

What version of Acrobat do you have? This feature is only available in the Pro version, not in the Standard version.

I am missing PDF Printer (PDFMaker), have reinstalled Adobe Professional and even did a repair making sure I added the PDFMaker options - it still will not add the PDF Printer (PDFMaker) option - which is necessar to use with our document comparison softw

Please help me add back the PDF Printer - I am missing the PDF Printer (PDFMaker) and have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Professional 10, I have tried repairing it and made sure the options for PDFMaker are selected, to no avail. I need the PDF Printer to use with our document comparison product, using the add printer options and adding the Adobe converters doesn't fix this issue either, it just adds an option to convert documents to PDF to a local folder which doesn't fix the issue.
I have a contract for Adobe Support but cannot reach a technician by 1-800 number, does anyone (1) have a solution to this problem? and (2) a telephone number for which I can call for assistance?
Thanks!

[discussion moved to Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs forum]

Can I print a document comparison in Acrobat 9?

Our customer requires a pdf comparison report for any files we revise, in Acrobat 8 we can print a side-by-side report, in Acrobat 9 it appears that you can only view the comparison on screen. I'm hoping I'm missing something really obvious - can anyone help?

You could change the percent in File > Page Setup. But I think fruhulda's suggestion of using PDF would probably result in better resolution although any enlarging will likely cause some loss.

Problem with Document Comparison In Adobe Pro 9

I have two similar documents that I need to compare. When I use the compare documents options, it only displays a "Compare Insert" box and does not show any text differences even though it is selected under options. Both documents are scanned pdf's. Please advise what could possibly be wrong. Thanks.

we have the same issue. i think the two documents have to be "tagged" PDFs. usually the program you create the PDF with will tag the document when it creates the PDF. but you can also try to add tags to the PDF from within Acrobat. We haven't had any luck, but that's the advice i got.

"code level" document comparison software

i have been using TextWrangler and am just about to purchase an Araxis Product in order to /compare/ two or three or more documents in the hopes that i can highlight the differences and even print them out like this.
i wanted to check in with the list in case anyone had any software suggestions for particularly visual tools that do this and also to confirm that TextWrangler is not really the tool for this.
TIA

hotwheels 22 wrote:
x, did i miss something in text wrangler or is it just showing me a text based /description/ of the differences below? am i missing a setting because i am not seeing a visual readout which i really need - and really would like to be able to print out as well.
No you aren't missing anything. It is a textual compare but it shows the two files to be compared side-by-side and when you select a difference in the bottom window it will highlight the differences in the two file windows above. I actually prefer this to the "cutesy" FileMerge because I prefer to do all my edits in a single app (BBEdit) as opposed to using yet another app.
If that isn't good enough and you don't want to install all of xcode with FileMerge there are plenty of alternatives. Stick "compare" into a macupdate.com search.

PDF Document Comparison | I Didn't Know Acrobat Could Do That! | Adobe TV

Lori discusses use cases for comparing two versions of a document, and how Acrobat simplifies that tedious process.
http://adobe.ly/xlHDIf

Is there a feature to move among the found differences? Or to show ONLY the differences? In a large document, it's not enough to just "look for" the color-coded differences. I have not found any such features on viewing a compared doc. I've also looked in the help and now am looking to see if other resources discussing PDF compare might show it. (The final seconds of the video here showing her clicking the down arrow in the top left corner is the "page down" button.) Thanks for any thoughts, Lori or anyone else.

Document compare in Acrobat 9 a backwards step?

It looks like Adobe in their infinite wisdom have dumbed-down the document compare in Acrobat 9.
In Acrobat 8 and before it used to be possible to do a quick-and-easy text comparison to highlight differences between documents. Now there are 3 (undefined) ways of comparing documents, none of which are suitable for comparing two mostly textual documents. The 250 page limit is madness too - many of our documents are 1000+ pages which Acrobat 8 used to handle perfectly well.
Is there any way of getting the old (Acrobat 8) document compare functionality back?

I'm afraid I don't have help for you, David, but I fully support your subject line!
When I used Acrobat 8, I was able to do fairly quick and really effective document comparisons, in which Acrobat 8 focused on what I asked it to focus on (especially text). With Acrobat 9, I no longer have this control, and the comparison quality is horrendous. Acrobat 9 arbitrarily treats some text as images, fails to see blatantly-obvious differences, reports no differences in blatantly-obvious changed text content, and also reports some "ghost changes" (such as multiple "matching graphic not found" messages around words in blocks of text where no graphics ever existed).
I'm disappointed as well.
--Michael

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Can I get document comparisons of java application servers? I need performance comparison and pros and cons of following Application Servers
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Oracle Instant Portal does not support all the features of the flexible and powerful native OracleAS Portal product.
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Can I use Remote Desktop to run Windows software from my Mac

Here's what I want to do:
1) Set up a small office LAN with an Apple Xserve as the file server; clients are mostly iMacs but a few PCs.
2) There are one or two software apps I need that exist only in the Windows world (such as a good document comparison software like DeltaView).
3) I want to have one dedicated PC for my one or two essential Windows apps and then run Remote Desktop Connection on my Mac client to launch the Windows app on the PC client and use it to edit or otherwise manipulate a data file stored on the server.
Is this possible?

Thanks for your prompt reply.
OK, maybe I'm missing something basic but then why would I ever want to run Windows network in my office? The bugbear about Macs is that there is certain Windows software for which there is no good Mac equivalent. But you are telling me that as long as I have a couple of Windows boxes, I can run my Windows software on them through my Mac, even though the data files are stored on an separate box (an Xserve).
Now, for the $64 question -- is it possible to set up a network in such a way that I could use RDC on my PowerBook in, say, Chicago to run the software installed on the Windows box and in turn to open and manipulate the files stored on the Xserve in my office, halfway across the world in Abu Dhabi? Would this be a particularly difficult configuration?
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DXB Law

Compare pdf's

I have created some code in c# to compare PDF's in Acrobat V9. I was wondering how to programmatically determine when the comparison is finished. If you run the comparison by interactively a progress bar is shows, perhaps I can access this. I would also like to know how to access the the summary page programmatically to determine if there are differences. We have hundreds of pdf's to compare that need to be compared before and after codes changes. Doing this interactively would be painful.
Some code snippets so it is understood how I am attacking the problem currently.
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            PdOldDoc.OpenAVDoc("old");
            PdNewDoc.Open(newFile);
            PdNewDoc.OpenAVDoc("new");
            object activeDoc = AdobeApp.GetActiveDoc();
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So there are no .Net ways to compare 2 files. I have 90% of the comparison working and seems strange that I can't silently compare 2 documents and create a 3rd document with the differences.
Through .Net and the Acrobat.dll I can:
1. open the old file
2. open the new file
3 open a compare dialog with the 2 file names populated
4. *Manually select my document comparison type and Manually select OK in the Compare dialog
5. Save the compared file through .Net
6. Close all my Acrobat windows through .Net.
Is there no way to complete step 4 via .Net and the acrobat.dll?
Would another much more $$$ option be to go to a LiveCycle module and pay 40K+ for a module to compare a batch PDFs?
Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Conditional cross references (an easier way?)

Hi gurus,
Forgive me if this is an absurdly simple problem, but our team just isn't figuring out an elegant solution.
What we need is two types of crossreference formats - one for print, one for PDF/the web/any other hyperlinkable medium.
We would like the crossrefs to appear as follows:
Print:
[some arbitrary block of text] (see page xx)
PDF
[some arbitrary block of text]
As far as we can tell, FM's crossreferences always GENERATE text based on the building blocks, whereas FM's hyperlinks allow an arbitrary chunk of selected text to serve as the "active" text. The hyperlink behavior is what we want, in both cases. We're not interested in pulling the name of the target paragraph, or the page number, or anything else - we just want the text we typed to serve as the link, no matter the format.
The only solution we've been able to figure out is to actually create both a hyperlink AND a crossreference, and then conditionalize the crossreference (show in print, hide in PDF.) But this feels unnecesarily complicated.
Is there a cross-ref building block that stands for "just use the selected text?" Or even "don't do anything at all?" It seems both of these solutions would allow us to just build the links using crossreferences, rather than needing to build links via two different formats?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Until then, we'll just be here, weeping quietly.
Thanks,
Dennis

ddsbleton wrote:
Hi gurus,
Forgive me if this is an absurdly simple problem, but our team just isn't figuring out an elegant solution.
What we need is two types of crossreference formats - one for print, one for PDF/the web/any other hyperlinkable medium.
We would like the crossrefs to appear as follows:
Print:
[some arbitrary block of text] (see page xx)
PDF
[some arbitrary block of text]
As far as we can tell, FM's crossreferences always GENERATE text based on the building blocks, whereas FM's hyperlinks allow an arbitrary chunk of selected text to serve as the "active" text. The hyperlink behavior is what we want, in both cases. We're not interested in pulling the name of the target paragraph, or the page number, or anything else - we just want the text we typed to serve as the link, no matter the format.
The only solution we've been able to figure out is to actually create both a hyperlink AND a crossreference, and then conditionalize the crossreference (show in print, hide in PDF.) But this feels unnecesarily complicated.
Is there a cross-ref building block that stands for "just use the selected text?" Or even "don't do anything at all?" It seems both of these solutions would allow us to just build the links using crossreferences, rather than needing to build links via two different formats?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Until then, we'll just be here, weeping quietly.
Thank
Dennis
You have two purposes, so you need two kinds of references, and two distributable documents, one for each need. Because a FM cross-reference content can't be broken into pieces, say one piece that displays "some arbitrary block of text," and a piece that displays "(see page xx)," you need two cross-references. Create one cross-reference for print, and point it to the source paragraph; use it with a cross-reference format with the "<$paratext> " building block to capture the text portion of the source, add the text "(see page) " and the <$pagenum> building block. For Web, create another cross-reference to the same source paragraph with only the <$paratext> building block. Create conditions for both cross-references; a print condition, and a Web condition. In the text, apply the appropriate condition to the corresponding cross-reference. Show or hide the condition you need, and create a PDF for one purpose, then reverse the visible/hidden condition settings, and create another PDF for the other purpose.
Because the cross-references in text are different lengths, keep a sharp eye on text reflow in the different conditionalized documents. You can use File > Utilities > Compare Documents in FM, or Acrobat's document comparison features, to check the reflow, but also use your eyes in the real text to confirm what the comparison tools tell you.
Search Google, if necessary, for terms like "importing conditional text settings to framemaker books," without quotes, for more about managing applying conditions to multiple-file books.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
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Newbie Question: How to Compare PDF Files?

I've seen a number of posts saying that Acrobat 9 has good document comparison tools. I just downloaded Adobe Reader 9.2.0 for Mac. The Documents menu has no menu item for document comparison.
What am I missing?
Thanks very much in advance to all for any info!

You need Acrobat Pro for that.

Unable to Reopen File

After closing a Numbers file it won't reopen and the following error message appears:
The document “Comparison of I.C. data:'55 Nav' Doc. FIg14:15.numbers” could not be opened.
Help please as I'm loosing data!!
Keith

It's impossible to try to help without the file.
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I would like to comparison two documents in Pages. Is it possible or not? If it is possible can you please explain how can I do it. Thank you for advise.
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Sorry, maybe my English is not good.
I mean that I would like to make compare two more less the same documents. For example I have one version of a contract as a final version. My partner send me the same contract also as a final version (not in mark up) and I need to know what is different between my version and the version from my partner.

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