[OS X TeX] Word spacing / Comparing pdfs in Acrobat

[Peter Pagin]

Hi,
the changebar package generates marginal bars to mark changed passages, 
with manually set code. The latexdiff script is excellent for comparing 
two LaTeX-documents and generating a composite document marking the 
difference, down to word level at least.

Best,
Peter

Markus Hänchen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to make visible, changes made to a LaTeX file. I tried to use 
> the 'Compare Documents' feature in Acrobat on the final pdf file since 
> it makes nice coloured mark-ups.
>
> The problem is that with the variable word spacing LaTeX is producing, 
> Acrobat sometimes does not recognize the separating space between two 
> words and reads two words as one. When the text is reflown a different 
> set of words might be 'joined' and Acrobat sees changes where there 
> are actually none.
>
> Is there a way to make the word spacing more uniform or bigger in 
> general?
>
> One work-around I have found is to increase the font size to 11 pt, 
> which seems to make the space between words big enough for Acrobat to 
> always catch it. But if I could have it working at 10 pt, I would 
> rather prefer that.
>
> Do get the whole thing working I had to add a number of pagebreaks to 
> separate the whole text into chunks which will even after extensive 
> edits still fit on one page, otherwise Acrobat would also all changes 
> due to text flowing from one page to another.
>
>
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