[plug] [OT] PDF Conversions

[Onno Benschop]

Timothy White wrote:

> Ok, my mistake. pdftops does give the correct ps. Unfortunately it still
> doesn't help. It appears that the text is still in some obscure format.
> I was hoping for something as easy as a regex like s/Text in PDF/New
> text for PS/ and being able to modify the ps like that. I had a simple
> text document which I converted to ps and I could do this. But these
> more complex documents and other PS files I have created from documents,
> while retaining text as text, they seem to obscure the text.

I've been watching your discussion from the sidelines because I was 
completely unsure as to why you were jumping though all these hoops. Now 
I understand that you are attempting to modify a printable file. 
Presumably you're attempting to do something like a mail-merge, but 
playing with the output which you have in PostScript.

My advise would be to generate the content separately, then merge the two.

You can generate PDF from within PHP, there are a few free tools around 
to do this.

Perhaps this will set you on a different train of thought.

Ultimately, I think you need to discuss what you're really trying to 
solve, not how you're trying to solve it.

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