ps editing

[Guest]

please help me, i am beginner  i need to edit some numbers in a catalogue. all i received from the boss is a pdf and a ps file. can i edit the pdf and send it to print (the pdf is distilled from the original ps file). or do i have to edit the ps file and then i can create the pdf? which program do i have to use? thank you very much

[Dov Isaacs]

By PS, we will assume you really mean PostScript and not Photoshop! 

Since PostScript is a programming language and because there are any number of ways to express text to be printed in a PostScript program file and because PostScript is not necessarily an ASCII format, we strongly recommend against editing PostScript. Assuming you are actually going to print the catalog from the PDF file you have, you can use the edit functions of Acrobat Pro to do limited text touch-up if you have the fonts used by the text to be edited actually installed on your system.

The best solution of course is to edit the original content and regenerate the PostScript and then regenerate the PDF (assuming that the program used to do the layout of the catalog doesn't have a direct PDF export function which is generally preferred over the distilled PostScript route).

          - Dov