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tlalok
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15 years ago

How to call Beyond Compare from script to compare PDF files

Hi, I have a test that has to compare pdf files. After some playing with "File Checkpoint" I came to the conclusion, that the PDFs are never binary the same so the "File Checkpoint" will always...
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tlalok
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15 years ago
Hi,



I spend some more time searching the newsgroup and found a code snippet that helped me do this:



  aCmdLine := 'BComp.com Baseline.pdf Verifiy.pdf /quickcompare';

  aResult := Sys.OleObject('WScript.Shell').Run( aCmdLine, 1, TRUE);



Looks like I'm using the Windows Scripting Host now. I don't know much about it, but now I get my expected result "2" in aResult.



Great!



Regards,

-Carsten