Why does xelatex produce a different binary of the pdf each time?

Asked May 07 '19 at 13:19

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This is doc.tex

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
a
\end{document}

Then I xelatex doc.tex and md5 doc.pdf, so I get a unique md5 code. If I run xelatex again on the same tex file it produces a diff pdf (diff md5).

What can I do for xelatex to procude the same md5 result for the same tex file?

edited May 07 '19 at 13:21

asked May 07 '19 at 13:19

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The pdf tends to contain a creation date/time that will change with each run. – Andrew Swann May 07 '19 at 13:22
Perhaps https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/440389/15925 helps – Andrew Swann May 07 '19 at 13:25
This as well: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229605/ – Claudio May 07 '19 at 13:25
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@Claudio I'd say the current question is a duplicate of that one, do you agree? – Marijn May 07 '19 at 15:30
@Marijn I agree – Claudio May 07 '19 at 18:48

Why does xelatex produce a different binary of the pdf each time?

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