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Hi Marco,

What are you trying to do that you can't do in Word before outputting direct to PDF? Word's ps output is ugly.

Cheers
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cmyk


"Marco" <marco@b-u-x.com> wrote in message news:1177012929.420722.184050@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> I'd like to add automatically text (generated at the time that the
> files is imported, e.g. date/time/revision stamp and such) to
> documents. We're currently use MS Word, but I'd prefer to use pdf
> instead. So the idea is to generate the MS Word document, convert
> (print) it into a pdf or ps file, importing the file into the system
> with a stamp, converting it into pdf afterwards (if it was previously
> a ps file) so it can be viewed by Adobe Acrobat Reader (would be great
> it I could skip this step - however it appears to me that pdf files
> are smaller than PS, which is a good thing ;-) ).
> So I played around and printed the Google page into a ps file and
> tried to add some text manually. It was working when I placed a
> showpage at the end of my text, however then the other text was no to
> see. If I omit the showpage, then I don't see the additional text.
> Rather than modifying the file, I was also thinking of including the
> file in a different file (ps or pdf in a ps file) - not sure if I
> going to face the same problems though.
> Obviously I don't want to go through the trouble of parsing the ps
> file, but if there a certain procedure that I could implement - that
> would be great.
> I also looked the blue book for postscript, and it looks great and
> easy, however I'm not designing a new ps file but try to modify (add)
> an automatic generated ps file.
> Anyone who could point me in the right directions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Marco
>