Re: [Pdfedit-support] Getting all changes in one document

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:19:34PM -0400, douglas germann wrote:
> Michal--
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:53 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:00:18PM -0400, douglas germann wrote:
> > > Hi--
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > 
> > > Have a 16 page document. A couple days ago I entered changes on most of
> > > the pages. Today I entered changes on page 11.
> > 
> > Have you checked that you are not editing linearized document?
> > Could you send your document? 
> 
> Yes, it does not show up as linearized. Instead it shows various
> versions in the box which would say linearized.

If I understand correctly, you have modified linearized (original)
document and then modified it again. If this is a case, then it makes
sense - modifying linearized documents can lead to unpredictable
problems as they are not designed for incremental update used for saving
changes by PDFedit. 

If you have linearized document (warning should be displayed during
document loading and Revisions combo box should read Linearized
documents).

Newer versions [*] and current CVS sets such a document as read-only so
you even can't modify such a document.


> 
> Sorry, no, I cannot send it because it has confidential information in
> it. I can send the blank but not sure that is going to help.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Now if I view the pdf in a document viewer, it shows only the changes on
> > > page 11.
> > 
> > Which document viewer do you use? 
> 
> evince 2.22.2, xpdf, acrobat 6.0 standard. I just checked acrobat 8.0
> reader and it shows what looks to be all edits!

acrobat reader can do really black-magic with documents (pdf generators
can misuse some PDF format features and Adobe is trying their best to
enable showing all such -read damaged- documents).

> 
> Is that to be expected? Is there some trick I can use to get the other
> programs to see everything?
> > 
> > > 
> > > If I go into pdfedit, I can see all the original edits in Revision 1;
> > > and all today's edits on page 11 in Revision 3. But I cannot get them
> > > all on one document.
> > 
> > Does this mean that all changes are not shown when you open document in
> > the latest revision (without changing it)?
> 
> Yes, that is correct.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > What do I need to do?
> > 
> > The best way would be reporting it in our bug tracker ;) It can be a bug
> > or some non standard pdf.
> 
> If I find an extra half hour, I will try to recreate this without the
> confidential info and post it there, too.

If you have modified linearized document, then there is no need to
report this - because this behavior is expected. If you have the
same/other problem also with delinearized (or not linearized original)
then please upload original document and scenario.

> 
> The document was created using Microsoft Word and printing to pdf, I
> think.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > 			:- Doug.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your help, Michal!
> 
> 			:- Doug.

[*] This was even tracked and fixed in
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/view.php?id=206 closed and released in
PDFedit >=0.4.0

-- 
Michal Hocko