{"id":2574,"date":"2008-12-02T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2008\/12\/02\/annotating-pdf-files-with-free-software\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:28:00","slug":"annotating-pdf-files-with-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2008\/12\/02\/annotating-pdf-files-with-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"annotating PDF files with free software"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<span>flpsed<\/span> is a WYSIWYG PostScript annotator.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t remove or modify existing elements of a document.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nflpsed lets you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript documents (PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated).<br \/>\nAdded lines can later be reedited with flpsed.<br \/>\nUsing pdftops, which is part of xpdf one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them.<br \/>\nflpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes etc.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/>\nflpsed is released under the GPL.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nActually it is more a PostScript annotating tool than a PDF one.<br \/>\nWhen you first save an annotated PDF document,<br \/>\nit gets converted to PostScript.<br \/>\nIf you want to resume editing such a document,<br \/>\nyou and the tool have to deal with the PostScript file.<br \/>\nYou lost the nice document structure diagrams,<br \/>\nPDF viewers show you for certain documents.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd: PDF resp. PostScript annotating is <span>not<\/span> filling out PDF form fields.<br \/>\nThis tool lets you write text at any location within such a document,<br \/>\nand it does not help you finding PDF form fields, as PDF viewers do.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI still find this utility very, very useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flpsed is a WYSIWYG PostScript annotator. You can&#8217;t remove or modify existing elements of a document. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[423,462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdf","category-postscript"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-Fw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}