On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Anyone know of an editor of some kind that can directly edit postscript
> files? I've got a postscript file that I'd like to add some text to, but
> it's so dense and I know so little about the internals of postscript,
> that I don't know how to add text manually.
Depends on how major the changes are:
bash-2.05a$ echo "test" | mpage -1 > test.ps
bash-2.05a$ echo "test the Gettysburg Address" | mpage -1 >
test-two.ps
bash-2.05a$ diff -c test.ps test-two.ps
*** test.ps Thu Jun 27 23:43:52 2002
--- test-two.ps Thu Jun 27 23:44:12 2002
***************
*** 2,8 ****
%%DocumentFonts: Courier Times-Bold
%%Title: <stdin> (mpage)
%%Creator: mpage 2.5.1pre2 March 1998
! %%CreationDate: Thu Jun 27 23:43:52 2002
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%DocumentMedia: Letter 612 792
%%BoundingBox: 18 18 594 774
--- 2,8 ----
%%DocumentFonts: Courier Times-Bold
%%Title: <stdin> (mpage)
%%Creator: mpage 2.5.1pre2 March 1998
! %%CreationDate: Thu Jun 27 23:44:12 2002
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%DocumentMedia: Letter 612 792
%%BoundingBox: 18 18 594 774
***************
*** 277,283 ****
576 80 mp_a_x mul div 756 792 div scale
4 7 translate 568 576 div 784 792 div scale
textfont setfont
! 0 780 moveto (test) show
grestore
restore
showpage
--- 277,283 ----
576 80 mp_a_x mul div 756 792 div scale
4 7 translate 568 576 div 784 792 div scale
textfont setfont
! 0 780 moveto (test the Gettysburg Address) show
grestore
restore
showpage
bash-2.05a$ gv test.ps
bash-2.05a$ gv test-two.ps
bash-2.05a$
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