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

[George Gratzer]

I tried changebar, and soon I could not typeset the document. I would  
try latexdiff, but I do not know Perl.

When I send out a new version of a chapter to the volunteers, it  
would be nice to mark it up; concentrate on these.

Any suggestions?

GG

On May 4, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Peter Pagin wrote:

> 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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