Re: .ps or .pdf editing app
Hi,
I used to edit raw postscript (writing display postscript on
an old unix box), and I used emacs+postscript mode. (I fail to see
how the fonts one uses in the postscript program has anything to do
with the editor).
However, if you need to edit machine generated postscript
using something that parses it, presents it to you, and re-generates
postscript, Umm, I don't know if there is any such beast out there.
Postscript is a fairly complete programming language, and it
only a postscript engine can understand what the output should look
like. By the time the engines is done, you have a description of each
non-background pixel on the page (some hidden behind others and so
on). Umm, to get the text back you need to run an OCR on the
data. Also, an elegant 5 lines of postscript code can generate fairly
complex final output, so it is as hard to reverse engineer postscript
as is C++. What I am bumbling around trying to say is that this is
quite hard. I have never seen a product, on any OS, that does
something like this.
Having said that, I realize that a dozen people shall now jump
out and prove how wrong I am, and that would answer your question.
manoj
who still has the red and blue books ;-).
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