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@@ -120,6 +120,19 @@ Please note that these examples run in the context of a test. In order run an example as a standalone application, you'll need to examine fpdf_test.go for some helper routines, for example exampleFilename and summary. +Example PDFs can be compared with reference copies in order to verify that they +have been generated as expected. This comparison will be performed if a PDF +with the same name as the example PDF is placed in the gofpdf/pdf/reference +directory. The routine that summarizes an example will look for this file and, +if found, will call the ComparePDFFiles() to check the example PDF for equality +with its reference PDF. If differences exist between the two files they will be +printed to standard output and the test will fail. If the reference file is +missing, the comparison is considered to succeed. In order to successfully +compare two PDFs, the placement of internal resources must be consistent and +the internal creation timestamps must be the same. To do this, the methods +SetCatalogSort() and SetCreationDate() need to be called for both files. This +is done automatically for all examples. + Nonstandard Fonts Nothing special is required to use the standard PDF fonts (courier, helvetica, |