Thanks, Steve. I can view the file fine, just not with a text editor
the way I believe I would be able to with a post script file. What
sucks is that this job was done as a template to be used for Linux
classes we are offereing here in NY. So, if we can't edit them in
Linux, all that work was for naught.
Another reason why you need to use Free Software, ladies and gentlemen.
So, what are my options? Take a print-out of the flyer and try to
re-create it using a free software layout program? Which would you
reccomend? I'm not sure where to get started on LaTeX, kIllustrator
doesn't seem very professional, have you tried Scribus? There's an
article today about it on NewsForge [
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/04/179247 ]
Thanks for the offer of sending it to you to edit, Steve, but I have
access to the original machine that created it, I need a way to edit it
on other machines.
Thanks.
- Paul Rodriguez
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 00:13, sda wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:04:30PM -0500, Paul Rodríguez wrote:
I have someone making me fliers in quark or illustrator. At first they
sent me a pdf, but I need to be able to edit the file (in Linux, of
course), so I asked them to send it to me as a .ps file. They did, and
while I can read both the pdf and the ps in ghostview, i still cannot
properly edit the file. VI shows the text as encoded or obfuscated in
some way. The markup is clearly written, but what I can assume is text
reads like:
10bf317050d961e87d157c0fe86ec5afecbd608ce0f232c64dcfb1d39b45^M
2e71b8ca2a92c46173a52c993c8ea0e3a6a97bbca89eebc0e87a68da7dcf^M
335cb16989a377c8400340e09bb7a3a4fae54003803791fa4d2f5b88afdc^M
392f17afecc8a037b6118f07b51c97b137676b140e2fba0e4b7ecc574c70^M
cbfa35d84fd49bc18c067342180503665d383fcdebee907501f8719ff862^M
5030352810efab946329f109adefea2f39c8182336b9eb95b38d69ca43cf^M
161d7fb7e8f46433cafa ND ^M
/t ^M
Ghostview says it's name is still a pdf when it opens it up?
How can I edit this? Or how can I get the person who sent me the file
to send it to me in a format that I can work with?
They spent a lot of work on it and I don't want to start all over trying
to recreate the file in another format.
Generally speaking one can't edit - properly, files created in Quark or
Illustrator using the PDF file, unless you have the proprietary Acrobat
[not reader] - even then it's dicey unless one has the same postscript
fonts that the layout app used. This pretty wells applies to ghostscript
reading the .ps file as well. If you wish you can send me the file
offline and I'll take a look at it. I work in prepress and have the
necessary tools at home.
In terms of reading the postscript file, you probably don't have the
needed parser with ghostscript. Linux, unfortunately is not strong in
publishing, even with TeX.
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