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Another new feature that affects directory comparison is an option to perform fast file content comparison: fast_comparison1_orig.png This will simply compare files byte-by-byte, considering files different at first byte difference, without using plug-ins or Ignore options. Naturally, this will make...

This topic will be a place to announce and discuss new features coming up in ExamDiff Pro 15.0. The theme of this release will be directory comparison improvements. Once big change coming up is tree mode , in which comparison results are displayed recursively in a tree view, with subdirectories that...

Hmm, I tried the 32-bit version of odt2txt from https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/, and it didn't work: no output and an error for files that the old plug-in, version 0.3, handles just fine. The size of the new version is also suspiciously small.

BTW, what's the location of the 64-bit version that you got?

Thanks for posting this, will check it out.

Thanks, we'll update it in the next build.

Thank you for trying it and letting us know.

Yes, it's broken at the moment. Since it's not one of widely used features, we'll delay fixing it until the next version.

You need to contact us via https://www.prestosoft.com/ps_email.asp and provide some of your license information (email, registration name etc.)

Would the plug-ins be available to install today? Providing they know how to do it.

One way would be to reinstall EDP. There's also a manual way to set up individual plug-ins, see https://www.prestosoft.com/edp_plugins.asp

A problem arises if the line breaks of the two PDf files are different, a not infrequent event. Very annoying, but I have not found any good idea to circumvent it. I wonder if Calibre e-book Converter, mentioned at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/691579/how-to-convert-pdf-file-to-text-with...

The way to compare PDF files is to enable the PDF to Text plug-in (Options | Tools | Plug-ins). This way your files will be converted to text prior to comparison.

Yes, saw it, thanks.

Thanks, will update.

ExamDiff Freeware's last supported versions are 8.1/Server 2012, but it will work on Windows 10. ExamDiff Pro will for many reasons (including Windows features support) work better.