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 -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090408/a09b70a3/attachment.pgp