On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:23 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote: > In interaction with government departments and other organisations you are > often prompted to download a form, print it fill it out by hand and return > it. > > If you handwriting is anything like mine, it would aid legibility if you > could > enter printed text in the question panels. > > My solution is flpsed - a pseudo PostScript editor, from; > > http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/ > > It requires compiling and; > - flpsed only works on X11-based systems. > - You need to have ghostscript installed. > - You need to have libfltk-1.1.x from www.fltk.org installed.[1} > > You use pdftops[2] to convert your source pdf to a postscript(ps) file and > then open the ps file with the flpsed program. > > flpsed is not able to edit the input file but enables you to place text in > the > document. You then 'save as ' your changes and then convert back from ps to > pdf. > > I have posted on example of this process at; > > http://www.inet.net.nz/~rossd/example.pdf
What a cool tool! I like it. Thanks for that. What is even more amazing is that this is a 12kB download (ok so it is obviously linked to fltk and ghostscript) , but nevertheless that is amazing! > > On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:25, Nick Rout wrote: > > > There was discussion on pdf generation last night. I unfortunately > > missed the point of Steve Holdaway's question about generating pdf's, > > [1] but it had to do with documentation generation IIRC. Forgive me if > > the pointer below is irrelevant to the question... > > > > >. (You may be familiar > > with PDF forms that you can type in, but cannot save unless you have the > > full Adobe Acrobat, an example here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ urpmq -i fltk > extracting libfltk1.1-1.1.4-2mdk.i586 > Name : libfltk1.1 > Version : 1.1.4 > Release : 2mdk > Group : System/Libraries > Size : 769356 Architecture: i586 > Source RPM : fltk-1.1.4-2mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org > Packager : Per �yvind Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL : http://www.fltk.org > Summary : Fast Light Tool Kit (FLTK) - main library > Description : > The Fast Light Tool Kit ("FLTK", pronounced "fulltick") is a LGPL'd > C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX(r)), OpenGL(r), > and Microsoft(r) Windows(r) NT 4.0, 95, or 98. It was originally > developed by Mr. Bill Spitzak and is currently maintained by a > small group of developers across the world with a central > repository in the US. > > [2] pdf2ps gives a degraded result. Use pdftops. pdftops is part of the xpdf > package on my Mandrake 10 machine. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
