Have her put field names in the appropriate places (all the blanks),
then sed, grep, perl away.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, 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.
>
> Paul
>
>
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