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Aandi is correct, many applications output "Private Dictionaries" which contain the file in the application's native format or contain data which allows them to reconstruct the native format.

Also, you could just be seeing the image preview in some situations, not your edited PostScript code.

Also, the concept of "text fields" just doesn't exist in PostScript. What you perceive to be a single field or string is just a collection of integer values that index to a font dictionary. Your driver or application may split these up into any subset in order to precisely control the placement of glyphs on a page. Therefore any "search and replace" mechanism you attempt to write is bound to either 1) fail miserably or 2) work only within the confines of a very, very strict environment: same app/version, OS, driver etc.

Thomas D. Greer
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