Compare PDFs in Acrobat 7 Standard?

Can anyone help, I usually use a Mac and using Acrobat Professional. I can compare different versions of a PDF easily using the Advanced Compare Documents tool. Does anyone know if there's a way of doing this effectively in Acrobat 7 Standard and where the options would be on the PC version.

Many thanks

Compare PDFs in Acrobat 7 Standard?

This feature isn't available in the standard edition.

Compare PDFs in Acrobat 7 Standard?

Many thanks

I'll have to go back to using my trusty Mac!!

You can upgrade to Acrobat 9 Prof.

Thanks, I do have a Pro version on my Mac, but someone had asked me to do a comparison which I did, but they weren't entirely happy as it had marked non textual changes too. ie slight movements in the text layout. So there were pages %26amp; pages of highlighted text where in fact there were no changes. This was quite clear to me that there were no changes as the actual textual changes were also highlighted but it seems it was not very clear to them.

This happens on Acrobat 8 Pro on Windows XP too - the text only compare in side by side mode correctly traps the redline differences but highlights non-changed text in a very strange fashion.

It appears to be a bug to me as when you open the comments list and click on the highlight it appears as with a type of 'Indeterminate' and the annotation 'Matching text on page 1 of other document'. When I click on the comment I get an Acrobat error dialog box with the text:

'There was an error processing an annotation or link. There was a problem reading this document (14).'

And I can't seem to delete the comments (presumably as Acrobat is failing to read the comments).

Very irritating. Worse, Acrobat 9 (Mac) has no way to preconfigure the compare so a 2.3MB compare in v8 is now 13+MB in v9 and every table edge (in a 150pp doc) is highlighted as different. Otherwise the v9 compare appears very good for on screen in v9 except it doesn't degrade very well to v8 and there is no side-by-side redline mode I can see.

Will be running v8 for a while yet.

Thanks George,

That's very interesting. I've no idea which version they are using in our other office, but I am using 8 Pro on my Mac here.

I'll try it at home, which is on 7 and see what that does.

Also size is an issue, I can only mail about 7MB so when I send the comparison to another office I have to compress the file first.

Still these things are sent to try us!!

Cheers,

Claire

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