the timestampz in a pdf, oh my

[Ed]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:29 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> 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.
>
Can you get to the data before it becomes a PDF? Checking it in a
markup  (HTML/Markdown/etc) that is easier to test before embedding it
in a PDF might be easier/possible.
There aren't many tools to unit test pdfs that I know of.  Selenium?

> 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
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