UPDATE: Recent retest with the latest version on 6/19 showed this process is giving an error. Will try to update with the corrected process.
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The following steps should enable broad format compatibility for text comparison in WinMerge, including Word, Excel, PDF, LibreOffice, RTF, and more. Note that you can't make changes to DOCX files, this is just for comparison. You can save the results as a TXT file.
Steps
1. Download and extract the
xdocdiff archive to a temporary folder
2. Copy the files "
zlib.dll" and "
xdoc2txt.exe" to both of the following folders inside your WinMerge Portable folders:
WinMergePortable\App\WinMerge\
WinMergePortable\App\WinMerge64\
4. Copy the file "
MergePlugins\amb_xdocdiffPlugin.dll" to both of the following folders:
WinMergePortable-xdocdiff\App\WinMerge\MergePlugins
WinMergePortable-xdocdiff\App\WinMerge64\MergePlugins
5. Launch "
WinMergePortable.exe"
6. From the menu, select
Plugins - Automatic Unpacking
7. From the menu select
Plugins - Plugin Settings and make sure all boxes are checked
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To test with some documents, click
File - Open and select 1, 2, or 3 documents to compare. If you have issues, set the
File: Unpacker plugin in the
Open window to "
Automatic."
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NOTE: Big thanks to TP109 here or I would have walked away from this.