Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:29:45 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Manipulating pdf/ps files Message-ID: <20010513.18294500@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Dear FreeBSD'ers, I would like to perform such operations as the following: -- merge PDF/ps files -- modify PDF/ps files in a more or less "graphical" (read: human-understandable) fashion -- convert PDF/ps files to other formats (eg text). Browsing the archives, I learnt about pdf2ps, ps2pdf, pstotext and psutils (both in the ports). I had also browsed the ports tree as well a= s the Doc-primer, but I am probably missing something trivial here. I have found some difficulties: eg, psmerge seems not to work on a few p= s files, which files I downloaded (originally as PDF files) from a www site. I have reason to believe those files were generated from one main file (containing data arranged in a table) split into several pieces, BTW. I couldn't convert the ps files to txt, either: pstotext generated strings of hashes (the "#" character). Any suggestions as well as pointers to documentation and/or programs -- whether free or not -- are greatly appreciated. N.B. The question concerns the FreeBSD OS & FreeBSD software. I am **NOT** willing to use any M$-related product (such as Adobe's), the negation "NOT" extending from Europe to the Atlantic US coast :-)) MTIA, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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