On 11/06/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For overprinting text on PostScript files, there's flpsed. Note it only works for PostScript, if you shove it a PDF, it does an automatic conversion to PostScript using pdftops of the xpdf package.
Interestingly for my sample PDF document, pfdtops produces a document that flpsed can't edit, but pdf2ps (from gs-common) produces one that's fine. And it ps2pdf's acceptably, too.
As Jim points out, OO does similar things to flpsed.
Attribution: CT said that :-) But pasting from Evince into OOo only brings the text of the document, not the graphics & layout.
There is nothing under Linux which deserves the label "PDF editor" as far as I know.
Yes, and indeed that should be true everywhere. PS itself isn't an editable form; insofar as it's a program and you can't "just change" the output without opening up the code that may have produced it. See the work of another Volker - http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-postscript-1135.html You couldn't edit "that PS file" to make bottle number 42 print out larger than the others, unless you were a human. I view PS (and PDF &c) as useful output, akin to binary code (but a little easier to live with). If you're distributing a PDF and intentionally wanting to allow modification, you should be distributing the *source* of that document (e.g. an ODT, or scribus document, or whatever) -jim
