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simon steiner edited comment on FOP-2854 at 3/28/19 10:12 AM: -------------------------------------------------------------- Normal way is to compare 2 pdf's line by line and ignore certain elements that change such as data and id Also set java to a fixed timezone was (Author: ssteiner1): Normal way is to compare 2 pdf's line by line and ignore certain elements that change such as data and id > CreationDate in PDF metadata breaks reproducible builds > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FOP-2854 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2854 > Project: FOP > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: renderer/pdf > Affects Versions: 2.3 > Environment: Debian GNU/Linux > Reporter: Filippo Rusconi > Priority: Major > > Greetings, > I would like to report that the CreationDate value that is set in the PDF > file changes at each run. This is problematic because that makes it > impossible to run FOP in the context of reproducible builds (see > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). > Would it be possible to create an option to set that date value manually or > some equivalent solution to this problem ? > Thank you so much for your work on FOP ! > Regards, > Filippo -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)