Checking that 2 pdf are identical (md5 a solution?)

[Peter Otten]

rlevesque wrote:

> Unfortunately there is an other pair of values that does not match and
> it is not obvious to me how to exclude it (as is done with the " /
> CreationDate" pair).

> and the pdf document is created using reportLab.

I dug into the reportlab source and in 

reportlab/rl_config.py

found the line

invariant=                  0                       #produces 
repeatable,identical PDFs with same timestamp info (for regression testing)

I suggest that you edit that file or add

from reportlab import rl_config
rl_config.invariant = True

to your code.

Peter