Compare PDF report wildly wrong
- The compare PDF feature does not work correctly for comparing two PDFs in which the only changes were edits to a table in InDesign. Almost every element on the newer PDF has been flagged as changed. The flagged notes show that Acrobat is comparing the wrong components to one another.
The two compared PDFs originated from the same InDesign file, and created with the same PDF presets.
Compare settings were tested set to both "autodetect" and "reports, spreadsheets, magazine layouts"; Show in report set to "Text" only.
- Original PDF created. Dates changed in a table; new PDF generated using same PDF export preset in InDesign. Compare files.
- OSX 10.13.6, Acrobat DC 18.11.20063, InDesign 13.1
- Expected: only the modified text would be flagged in the Compare report
- Observed: almost every component on the page is flagged as changed, and the vast majority are completely unchanged from prior PDF.
Ven
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Ven
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Thank you, Aakash -- here's the link:
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/f0ab6547-c804-4923-90ac-9028cf7b9e74Please let me know what your results are comparing these two files!
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Anonymous
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Open document password
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Ven
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I'd be glad to but I am unable to find a means to upload or relay files to you -- the "Attach a file" prompt doesn't appear in this comment window. Can you please let me know how.
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Ven
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Thank, Aakash -- I don't see a newer update available per my Adobe Cloud console. I'm not interested in using the Continuous track for an already extremely frustrating and buggy product. When is the next Classic "stable" update to be released?