Re: AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 05:29, Peter Kullmann wrote: > J. Pietschmann wrote: > > > > John Austin wrote: > > > RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' > > that will > > > convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be > > > comparable. > > ... > > >It would

AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread J.U. Anderegg
> Peter Kullmann wrote: > > As an alternative approach for c) one could create tests along > the following lines: Suppose you want to test left margin > properties of a block. For this a simple fo file is rendered as > a bitmap. The bitmap will not be compared to a reference bitmap > but some eleme

AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread Peter Kullmann
J. Pietschmann wrote: > > John Austin wrote: > > RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' > that will > > convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be > > comparable. > ... > >It would certainly help detect pixel-sized changes. > > That might help regr

Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' that will convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be comparable. ... >It would certainly help detect pixel-sized changes. That might help regression testing. We need regression tests badly. Some