New updates from Fa 2016

[gk12321]

---

Members don't see this ad.

So FA 2016 is out on kindle and the paperback version will be out for Christmas.
Time to start a thread to post all new stuffs added in the 2016 vs the 2015 one!! I am not buying the hardcopy version since all my notes are already in the FA2015.

 

[DrPicard]

Well I discovered a program that compares and highlights differences between two pdfs. Not a page by page comparison, but it compares the documents as a whole. I tested it on some documents and it works very well; it highlights in purple any changes or additions. The problem is that the pdfs for FA 2015/2016 are password protected, so they don't let this program run. No idea how to get around this. Probably going to have to do it manually, which is going to have to wait until I get FA 2016.

 

[SKaminski]

Well I discovered a program that compares and highlights differences between two pdfs. Not a page by page comparison, but it compares the documents as a whole. I tested it on some documents and it works very well; it highlights in purple any changes or additions. The problem is that the pdfs for FA 2015/2016 are password protected, so they don't let this program run. No idea how to get around this. Probably going to have to do it manually, which is going to have to wait until I get FA 2016.

What is the name of the program?

 

[DrPicard]

i-net PDFC. I downloaded their trial version (1 month, no restrictions). I tried it on some other documents, and it worked flawlessly. Highlights the differences.

I sent them an email when I failed to get it working on FA, and this is what they said in their reply:

"
Hello,



the stack trace indicates that the error occurs during the decryption process. So your pdf files are encrypted (password-protected). Is this correct? Concerning encrytion, there are some limitations, as described by the following passage from the documentation:



PDF documents with restricted access permissions are partly supported. The PDF documents, having such restrictions, are encrypted. The i-net PDFC parser can read PDF files, if they are encrypted with the standard algorithm, based on RC4. If the revision is not 3 or if the AES encryption, instead of RC4, was used, then such documents can not be read.

Usually, we would ask you to send us the pdf documents so we can reproduce and investigate the error. But if they are password-protected, this doesn't seem to be an option. Or would this be possible anyway?"