Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:20:11 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Imposing a pdf/postscript on top of another one Message-ID: <20170821122011.3bd9e8bd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcMiT9_6FdtaNTAeBmtbMGvN84SWHW8mJXsb%2BEnExDRYaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ5UdcNUfUqNRGNrmE8cYrd3-uqSLbQRqXmdy094gk7rWaWOeA@mail.gmail.com> <20170820195252.51ddf82b.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAJ5UdcMiT9_6FdtaNTAeBmtbMGvN84SWHW8mJXsb%2BEnExDRYaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:53:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Sunday, August 20, 2017, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','freebsd@edvax.de');>> wrote: Erm... I'm not Mister Javascript Underscore Percent Percent. You are probably using a webmailer with a slight hickup.. ;-) > The stackexchange page has pdftk as its first choice > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/501723/overlay-one- > pdf-or-ps-file-on-top-of-another > > However, my machine which has the postscript files is offline (no internet > connection) and no pdftk is available to do this :( Okay, so you have to stick with the installed tools. I can fully relate to this very special kind of situation ("use what you have, not what you don't have"). Of course, that doesn't make things easier. A solution that I would have in mind is to do the whole work in LaTeX, but you said you don't want to do that. You _could_, however, create the gnuplot output with a white / transparent background and either use it in EPS format, or use convert (from ImageMagic) to turn it into a PNG file; then use \includegraphics{} with the package inclusion \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} to include the image into the file. With \usepackage[absolute]{textpos}, put it into a "textblock" environment (to position it at the desired location of the page) _before_ you add the actual content; e. g., \begin{textblock}{width}(pos,pos) \includegraphics[width/height=,keepaspectratio]{backgr.png} \end{textblock} - and _now_ your text. With pdflatex, the output will be a PDF file, as desired. > Thanks for your input. I may have to copy the files and take them to > another machine so I can try to use pdftk or maybe use a command from > imagemagick which can do the job? I think ImageMagick's ability to process PS or PDF is quite limited, but you could - attention! stupid idea ahead! - turn the PDF file's pages into images, the background GNUplot out- put too, then overlay them with convert's -composite option, and finally turn the result back into a PDF file; of course now all text information will be lost, as there is only the image of text, which might reduce the usability of the result. But I said it's a stupid idea. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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