On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:05:31PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mike Miller wrote:
> > Given the way postscript lays things out on a page using coordinates, 
> > this seems like it should be a trivial problem but I don't happen to 
> > know the trick.  Any ideas?
> 
> This turned out to have a very tidy answer that was very hard to find. 
> It isn't exactly what I wanted but it is close enough -- it uses PDF 
> instead of postscript, which is different than desired, but I was going to 
> convert to PDF in the end so this works just as well for me.
> 
[snip]
> Anyway, I got lucky and found a working solution that uses PDF.  Here it 
> is:
> 
> convert to pdf:
> 
> ps2pdf graph.ps graph.pdf
> ps2pdf text.ps text.pdf
> 
> "stamp" one file onto the other using pdftk:
> 
> pdftk graph.pdf stamp text.pdf output text_on_graph.pdf
> pdftk text.pdf stamp graph.pdf output graph_on_text.pdf

Thanks Mike for following up and posting the tested answer!

florin

PS: A good resource for these kind of questions is http://stackoverflow.com

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