[Tex/LaTex] latexdiff hide the old version (the red crossed text)

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My journal editor is asking for a file that highlights only additions to the document (don't ask me why). So, I don't want to see the red-crossed text (the old version or the discarded text) in the generated file by latexdiff, only the blue text (i.e. the new version or the added text).

Additional, is it possible to change the blue text color to, let's say background yellow and black text on top (like a marker highlight).

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One can override these commands and customize:

\providecommand{\DIFdel}[1]{} % Don't show deleted text
\providecommand{\DIFadd}[1]{{\color{red}\uline{#1}}}

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There is a new functionality in latexdiff since version 1.1.0 that outputs only those pages where a change has been made.

Check out option --only-changes to latexdiff-vc or options -s ONLYCHANGEDPAGE or -s ZLABEL for latexdiff. The former is much more convenient as the post-processing is done behind the scenes.

(I know this question is really old, but the improvement to latexdiff in this respect since the original answers were posted are significant)

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If you put the following right after your \begin{document} and using '-f FLOATSAFE' option (which is the default) all marking of changes in floats should be suppressed:

\newcommand{\DIFdelFL}[1]{}
\newcommand{\DIFaddFL}[1]{}

A more elegant way to do this would be to use the -p option to define a custom preamble with these commands.

You can also achieve a similar outcome with the PICTUREENV option as you tried, but instead of 'float' in the second line you should add 'figure' and 'table'. Note that in your config file example the definition of PICTUREENV in your second line will overwrite the definition in the first line - you need to add further environments in the same line, separated by '|'

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