Hi Chris, Very sorry for being that slow… I’ll be on vacation starting next week, I’ll get back to you at that point and do it properly with a reproducible pdf example and everything…
Here is the output with debug flag though: → diffoscope --debug a.pdf b.pdf 2018-05-03 09:23:28 D: diffoscope.presenters.formats: Will generate the following formats: text 2018-05-03 09:23:28 D: diffoscope.main: Starting diffoscope 93 2018-05-03 09:23:28 D: diffoscope.locale: Normalising locale, timezone, etc. 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.main: Starting comparison 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators: Loaded 66 comparator classes 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.specialize: Using PdfFile for a.pdf 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.specialize: Using PdfFile for b.pdf 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.compare: Comparing a.pdf (PdfFile) and b.pdf (PdfFile) 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.file: File.has_same_content: <<class 'abc.PdfFile'> a.pdf> <<class 'abc.PdfFile'> b.pdf> 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.command: Executing pdftotext a.pdf - 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.command: Executing pdftotext b.pdf - 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.diff: Running diff -aU7 /var/folders/2j/y9vm048s00xgj0c5_s63s43m0000gn/T/tmps4e0b4q0_diffoscope/fifo1 /var/folders/2j/y9vm048s00xgj0c5_s63s43m0000gn/T/tmps4e0b4q0_diffoscope/fifo2 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.diff: diff -aU7 /var/folders/2j/y9vm048s00xgj0c5_s63s43m0000gn/T/tmps4e0b4q0_diffoscope/fifo1 /var/folders/2j/y9vm048s00xgj0c5_s63s43m0000gn/T/tmps4e0b4q0_diffoscope/fifo2: returncode 1, parsed True 2018-05-03 07:23:28 D: diffoscope.comparators.utils.command: Executing pdftk a.pdf output - uncompress Best, Gilles > On 01 May 2018, at 17:56, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > > retitle 897346 Stalls on MacOS > found 897346 93-1 > tags 897346 + moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Gilles, > > First, thanks for filing this! > >> But now when I run it on 2 PDFs, I get the program on stall, not doing >> anything after a few seconds. top tells me there is no diffoscope >> running, but there is a pdftk in sleep mode. > > Hm, interesting. Can you provide the full output of: > > $ diffoscope --debug a.pdf b.pdf > > >> I had a few dependencies problems with pdftotext and pdftk (I’m under >> Mac OS), but in the end found it and installed it. > > Could you elaborate here? Is this something we should know about > and/or is a bug? (If so, please file a separate issue!) > > >> Version: FIXME > ^^^^^ > Whoops! These headers are "meaningful" in that the bugtracker > parses certain field names — you wanted to put "93" here instead of > inventing a new header called "diffoscope version". > >> OS: Mac OSX 10.11.6 >> pdftotext version: 3.03 >> pdftk version: 2.02 > > Thank you for providing this detail but, whilst useful, the bug > tracker does not know about these fields. See <https:// > www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting> for more info :) > > > Best wishes, > > -- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk > `-
