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Automate "Compare Documents"?

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2007-05-07 15:44:26
jsilver
Registered: May 7 2007
Posts: 2

Is it possible to automate the "Compare Documents" feature? We'd like to invoke this feature when a new version of a document is checked in to a CMS.
 
Thanks,
 
Jerry

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2007-05-21 16:13:03
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Don't think so. The compare in Acrobat is done purly from the menu item. There's no other access so it can't be automated.

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2011-11-03 08:17:01
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overRegulated
Registered: Nov 3 2011
Posts: 1
I wanted to bump this topic to refresh it in the context of Acrobat X.
Has anyone found a way to automate the compare documents functionality of Acrobat using JavaScript? Or any other means?

Thanks in advance!
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2011-11-03 08:42:28
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
It's still not possible.
The closest you can get is to compare the documents textually using a script, but that's not the same as using the built-in compare command.

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