PdfSpec

PdfSpec includes rspec matchers to compare the appearance of PDF files. This is obviously most useful when you need to verify that you can produce a PDF that looks identical to a sample PDF file.

Installation

This library depends on the rmagick ruby gem.

Homebrew

brew install imagemagick
brew install ghostscript

MacPorts

sudo port install ImageMagick

Debian (Ubuntu)

The following was tested on Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04.

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

(TODO) Gentoo

# Install libmagickwand

Use

To use the matchers in your tests, simple include the Matchers module into RSpec:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include(PdfSpec::Matchers)
end

Or include it in certain tests:

describe "Testing PDFs" do
  include PdfSpec::Matchers

  it "should match..."; end
end

Matchers contains the have_same_pdf_appearance_as expectation which will render out PDF files to pixel buffers in memory and then compare them pixel by pixel.

it "should be the same PDF" do
  source_pdf = File.read("path/to/source")
  expected_pdf = File.read("path/to/expected")

  source.should have_same_pdf_appearance_as(expected_pdf)
end