adobe acrobat equivalent

[joel]

On Sunday 25 November 2001 07:46 pm, Rodney K wrote:
> anybody know of any program similar to adobe acrobat that I can use in
> Linux to edit .ps files (ex. combine multiple files as one, or
> delete/add pages)?
>
> Rodney

I'm not sure if you're interested in command-line programs to do what you 
want with the .ps files, but if you are, here are a couple:

To combine multiple postscript files, you can use the psmerge command. As an 
example, to merge the files `slide1.ps', `slide2.ps', and `slide3.ps' into a 
new PostScript file, `slideshow.ps', type: 

$ psmerge -oslideshow.ps slide1.ps slide2.ps slide3.ps

That would also work to add a new page to the end of a document.

To remove pages, I think you'd have to extract the pages you want with 
psselect, merging the extracted pages together. For example, to select the 
first ten pages, page 104, pages 23 through 28, and page 2 from the file 
`newsletter.ps' and write it to the file `selection.ps', type: 

$ psselect -p1-10,104,23-28,2 newsletter.ps selection.ps 

I'd imagine there are GUI tools to do this, too, but I don't know what they 
are.

--Joel