flpsed - a Postscript and PDF annotator

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Description

flpsed is a WYSIWYG PostScript annotator. You can't remove or modify existing elements of a document.
But flpsed lets you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript documents (PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated). Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed. Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes etc. GsWidget is now part of flpsed.
flpsed is released under the GPL.

Download

fltk-1.1.x based version (default): flpsed-0.5.2.tar.gz
sha1 0fe01adc10cb824485bee1d9a9d304959b06073a

fltk-2.0.x based version: flpsed-0.6.1.tar.gz
md5 5377fe7e80d677c794e013ce07627d6a

flpsed is also available as debian package and FreeBSD port.

Mailing List

flpsed@flpsed.org Archive
Instructions

Features

• Add arbitrary text to existing PostScript documents.
• Reedit text, that has been added with flpsed.
• The overall structure of the PostScript document is not modified. flpsed only adds the additional text.
• Batch processing (no X11 required) to modify tagged text lines that have been entered interactively with flpsed before. This is very useful for repeatedly filling in forms.
• Text lines can be imported from other flpsed-modified documents.
• Import and export PDF. Therefore it can be used as a PDF editor as well.

Requirements

• X11-based system (e.g. Linux, *BSD)
• fltk-1.1 or fltk-2.* flpsed-0.6.x
• ghostscript

Changes from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2

• Add Ctrl-l (last page) and Ctrl-r (previous page) hotkeys. (by Paulo Jnkml)
• Scroll to top of page when going to next page. (by Paulo Jnkml)
• Scroll to bottom of page when going to previous page. (by Paulo Jnkml)
• Fix warnings.

Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1

• Make Postscript.cxx 8bit blean.
• Add support for *caron glyphs.
• Add support for Euro symbol.
• Fix saving and exporting.
• Fix cursor handling.
• Reimplement ugly *offscreen macros as inline methods.
• Enable drag scrolling, using the middle mouse button while Alt key is pressed.