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sillsdev / ptx2pdf

XeTeX based macro package for typesetting USFM formatted (Paratext output) scripture files
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Make it possible to compare PDFs where one or more of the PDFs have cropmarks #994

Open markpenny opened 2 weeks ago

markpenny commented 2 weeks ago

We need to be able to detect cropmarks and ignore them in either/both of the PDFs when comparing so that it doesn't trip up on changes beyond the edge of the page.

Similarly, there needs to be a way to offset the starting page number to start comparing the two PDFs. This will enable PDFs with intro matter before the main body to be compared, or specific/individual Bible books against a larger publication.

davidg-sil commented 1 week ago

This is basically a case of cropping to the crop-marks or masking out page numbers before the comparison. I assume that the right information is in the PDF for the cropmarks, but we'd need to add something, I presume to flag the page number position. Would that be a special comment (assuming PDFs have comments?), or some kind of additional PDF structure (about which I know nothing useful).