[plug] "Editing" PDF/PS Files

W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 9 15:24:20 WST 2007


How about one of the imagemagick tools?  Can be scripted, as well as
handling any conversions needed.

http://imagemagick.org/script/index.php

extracted from the above: 
"Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image"

Billk


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:05 +0900, Timothy White wrote:
> Once again, the question is raised... You have a form in PDF/PS
> format, and just want to type over it so you can fax it without it
> ever having been printed onto real paper.
> Under windows, we would convert to TIFF, and use "Imaging" I think it's called.
> 
> Any suggestions for Linux, or just convert to TIFF and use GIMP? It's
> just a "Image" not a real PDF form.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim



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