flpsed is a PostScript annotator. You can't actually edit existing PostScript documents, but you can add arbitrary text lines to existing documents. It is useful for filling in forms etc.

• Open an existing PostScript document.
• Click anywhere on the document and type a text line.
• The frame around the text shows, which text line has the focus.
• Click on the lower left corner of a text line to focus it or use the Tab-key to cycle through the text lines on the current page.
• Remove text, by hitting BackSpace.
• Move text lines by dragging them with the mouse or using the arrow keys.
• Navigate within the document with the Page->Next or Page->First menu buttons.
• Save your document and preview it with ghostview or something similar.
• If you reopen the document with flpsed, you can edit the added text lines.

• Add arbitrary text to existing PostScript documents.
• Reedit text, that has been added with flpsed.
• The overall structure of the PostScript document is not modified. flpsed only adds the additional text.
• Lines can be given names ("tags"). The text of these lines can be replaced in batch mode (no X11 required).

• flpsed probably does not work on all existing PostScript documents. You simply have to test it for your documents.
• Zooming depends on the availability of scalable fonts on your X11 system. Font sizes might be wrong with zoom values other than 100% if these are missing.
• flpsed is alpha software, so please backup your files, before trying to modify them.

• flpsed only works on X11-based systems.
• You need to have ghostscript installed.
• You need to have fltk-1.3.x from www.fltk.org installed.
• Unpack the tarball and type "./configure", "make", and "make install".

To use batch mode, add text lines to your PostScript document as usual. Give all or some of the lines tag names (Tags->Edit Tag). Save the document. Now you can replace the text of the tagged line in batch mode using the -t flag (see usage). Example: Lets assume you have added text lines with tags "name", and "street" to your document letter.ps with flpsed in interactive mode and saved the result in letter-templ.ps. You can now call flpsed in batch mode to set the actual values:

flpsed -b -t name="Hans Meier" -t street="Haupstr. 14" letter-templ.ps out.ps