Re: [PLUG] editing pdf, ps

[Ben Dugan <bdugan@curdes.com>]

I did this using pstoedit to convert the file to fig format, then edited 
it with xfig.  It worked well (in my case filling out government forms 
for an application for a grant).

The one hassle was that xfig handles text in a rigid line oriented way, 
so typing paragraphs of text was difficult.

Ben

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I want to edit a postscript (or pdf) file for which I don't have the
> original source to regenerate with the modifications I want.  I just
> want to put a "do not distribute" note at the top.
>
> If I do it in gimp, the ps or pdf is rastorized, I edit the pixmap,
> and safe as a rastorized image.  This doesn't work for me, as it
> decreases the quality of the whole document.
>
> I feel like I ought to be able to do something like this with some
> unix tool.  I've seen that the authoring-enabled version of acrobat
> can do this with pdf's.  But I haven't turned up anything that can do
> this for me.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?


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