Greetings fellow monks, I need an application (initially on Linux) that can display PostScript or PDF file full screen a page at a time and let me scribble on it. If I could annotate (scribble on) xpdf, ghostview/gv or something like that, and save the annotations with each page, that'd be great. (In case you haven't guessed, I'll be displaying static PowerPoint or other presentation "slides" rendered to PS or PDF.)

I could not find the tool I wanted so I looked at what it might take to build it. I found ghostscript.pm , but the one example is a little light on comments:-) If I can use that I think I'd also need a drawing tool to generate drawings with transparent backgrounds that I can overlay onto the PDF/PS output. I can use perl-tk or gtk-perl to create a gui.

Oh, and I cannot change to another presentation tool unless it can import what I already have as there is a large body of existing presentations (mostly Powerpoint) that I need to support for this task.

I'd love to hear of any ready-built tools, code or modules that might help.

Thanks, --traveler

In reply to Scribble on PDF/PostScript: ghostscript.pm? by traveler

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