File Comparison in Compare Suite

Compare Suite allows to compare using specific file comparison options:

- Plain text files

- Rich Text Format files (.rtf)

- MS Office Files (.doc,.xls, .docx, .xlsx)

- MS PowerPoint (ppt,pptx)

- Open Office Documents (odt,ods,odp,odg,odf,odb,odm,ott,oth,ots,otg,otp,sxw,sxc,sxg,sxi,sxd,sxm,stw,stc,std,sti)

- Adobe Acrobat Files (.pdf)

- Web Pages (.htm files)

- Binary Files (.exe, .com, .dll, .sys, .cpl, .ocx, .bin)

- WinZip Archives (.zip); WinRar Archives (.rar)

- Information from multimedia Files (avi,mpg,mpeg,mp2,mp3,wav,asf)

- Information from picture Files (jpg,jpeg,gif,bmp,wmf,ico) (full image comparison is also available).

- FTP Comparison: Compare Suite can compare files and folders located on the FTP server

- XML (Extensible Markup Language) files

- Link files - .LNK and .URL extensions\

Comparison of plaint text files is most simple and uses common idea. Read more about comparison principle and comparison methods.

Comparison of MS Office, Acrobat files and web-pages involves plugins that convert source format to easy readable one. Then Compare Suite runs the same comparison principle and methods as for plain text files.