R P Herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
>
>
>>Mike Manchester wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know how I can edit a PS or PDF file in Linux or where I can
>>>find a FAQ or HOWTO on doing this? I have a PDF form I need to fill out
>>>and return by email.
>>>
>
>>You basically can't edit the PS files directly,
>>
>
> hunh?
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ echo "This is text" | mpage > test.ps
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ cp test.ps test_cow.ps
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ joe test_cow.ps
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ diff test.ps test_cow.ps
> 282c282
> < 0 780 moveto (This is a test) show
> ---
>
>>0 780 moveto (This is a cow) show
>>
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$
>
> Each displays what you would expect.
>
> One is a test -- the other is a cow
>
> and I don't think that
>
>>even the full Acrobat package can edit PDFs (you must have the original
>>FrameMaker, MSWord, etc. file).
>>
>
> hunh?
>
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ pdftotext test.pdf
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$ cat test.txt
> This is text
> [herrold@oldnews herrold]$
>
> ... understand -- all the magic formatting may disappear, but
> they may be manipulated with standard text editting tools.
>
> -- Russ Herrold
>
Yes, Postscript is just text. I have written graphing libraries that
spit-out pure Postscript. But those truths don't do Mike any good. He
actually wanted to fill-out a Postscript form and email-it back. That
would be well-nigh impossible with standard text editing tools.
--ronan
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