the timestampz in a pdf, oh my

[Nathan]

You mentioned grep, but did you try 'strings' ?
Does that even exist any more?


On 2017-02-01 01:29, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> I have some dynamically generated PDFs coming from a pool of web 
> servers.
> 
> Each server should be generating a PDF that looks exactly the same as 
> from
> all the other servers.
> 
> The PDF generation includes sticking in a few timestamps and possibly 
> some
> hostnames or other dynamic content. The dynamic content eliminates the
> option of just using checksums to verify the output file is the same 
> from
> all of the web servers.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I can write a command line check. Needing to
> install a script would be far less than ideal in this situation. 
> Funnily
> enough, needing to install a package would be less of an issue in this
> particular case, especially something in CentOS 6.
> 
> Me being me, I did try to just grep out the lines with timestamps :). 
> That
> didn't quite work :(. That probably indicates the files aren't as 
> exactly
> the same as I hope.
> 
> I didn't see a pdf2sanity tool. pdf2text won't really work as I need to
> verify the graphic content and hopefully the PDF wrapper.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

-- 
Regards,

Nathan