On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:34:29AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:46:16PM -0400, Russ Herrold wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
> <snip>
>
> It's an invoice form (the headers and labels and such). Normally we have
> these offset printed, and then I run them through the laser to add
> amounts and remarks, etc. But it occurred to me that if I could take the
> whole thing and send it to the printer, without having to have the forms
> printed, it would be kewl. I could just reserve some slots in the
> postscript for the actual amounts an remarks, and then have a program
> replace the slots with my text. Out to the laser, and voila.
>
> This form was generated by my wife on a Windows box, and I had her dump
> it out to postscript so I could play with it. If I can find an editor to
> edit the stuff, I can stick in sample amounts and such, and then diff
> the original and revised copy. Then I can see where to add the text.
I had to do something similar with a bunch of Bingo cards. The client
designed the template (just a 5x5 grid with a header and some
misc. art). I ended up making it into a PDF and using the perl
PDF::API2 library to open the template PDF and add the appropriate
random bingo numbers into the grid. You are welcome to the code, if
you'd like it...
You could edit the postscript, but with PDF::API2 you would have alot
more control over placement... such as lining up decimals, wrapping
line-item descriptions, etc.
In addition to PDF::API2, there is also a widely used pdflib, at
www.pdflib.com.
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