From: Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T19:27:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Merging two Word documents with Ruby?

abiword can be used from the command line.  See http:// 
www.advogato.org/person/msevior/diary.html?start=65

This might allow for this to happen
On Dec 23, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Dave Howell wrote:

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> On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:37, Daniel Calvelo wrote:
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>> OpenOffice.org can do the .doc to pdf conversion. I like your idea  
>> very
>> much, Dave. Maybe PostScript would be easier to fiddle with ex-post.
>
> Probably. If you have a program that lets you overlay one PDF page  
> on another, then your best bet is to output a PDF page with your  
> header in it. (I'd probably use TeX, or maybe script OSX's TextEdit  
> program, and my copy of full Acrobat 4 for the page overlay.) The  
> other alternative would be to create (or have somebody create for  
> you) an .eps with the white box and a line of text in a program  
> like Freehand or Illustrator. If you pop open the .eps file in a  
> text editor, you'll find it not too difficult to programmatically  
> replace the text, although you won't easily be able to duplicate  
> the kerning and other textual adjustments. Have OpenOffice print to  
> a postscript file, then figure out what you can use as a page  
> marker in order to embed the .eps in that file on each page so that  
> it comes after (and thus covers) the original headers, if any. Then  
> feed the modified .ps file into a PDF distiller.
>
> That's what I'd try, I think.
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