[NTG-pdftex] Creating identical PDF files with different pdfTeX runs
Frank Küster
frank at debian.org
Wed Mar 15 16:57:30 CET 2006
Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
> regression tests at the macro package (output) level is something
> else; afaik latex already has regression tests
Oh, very interesting - where are these?
>; as said: analyzing the
> page stream or objects is non trivial, and even simple changes in
> pdftex or in annot/object/literal support will make a comparison
> nearly impossible
So maybe for pdfTeX development mainly the bitmap-based tests are
useful; but for macro packages, based on a given pdfTeX version, I
think the PDF based tests make sense, too.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
More information about the ntg-pdftex
mailing list