[Tugindia] Filling PDF Forms with LaTeX

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

Manoj wrote:
> I wrote a LaTeX file that contained all the answers to the questions
> in the PDF file and generated a PS file from that. Then I merged the
> original PDF file and the PS file to a new PS file. I observed that
> the pages from the original PDF file and those from the PS file
> containing the answers had the same fonts. (I do not know much about
> how PostScript gives font information, but the code for both the
> pages looked similar.) Then I did an extensive cut-and-paste,
> changing the co-ordinates when necessary!
> 
> Does someone know how to extract the co-ordinates of all the boxes in
> a PostScript file?

Why would you want to do that when you can get the relevant info from
the DVI file? Use "dvitype".

Kapil.

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