Convert: Postscript delegate failed
I was receiving the same error message. I then installed gs and the same command worked properly after that.
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How to add page numbers to Postscript/PDF
Based on rcs’s proposed solution, I did the following: Converted the document to example.pdf and ran pdflatex addpages, where addpages.tex reads: \documentclass[8pt]{article} \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \topmargin 70pt \oddsidemargin 70pt \pagestyle{fancy} \rfoot{\Large\thepage} \cfoot{} \renewcommand {\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand {\footrulewidth}{0pt} \begin{document} \includepdfset{pagecommand=\thispagestyle{fancy}} \includepdf[fitpaper=true,scale=0.98,pages=-]{example.pdf} % fitpaper & scale aren’t always necessary – depends on the paper being submitted. \end{document} or alternatively, … Read more
How to make stroke width immune to the current transformation matrix
Edit: There is an attribute you can add to your rect to get exactly this behavior: vector-effect=”non-scaling-stroke” This was wrong: This will work if you apply the transform directly to the shape, not the group it is in. Of course, if you wanted to group several items and scale them all together, that approach won’t … Read more
overlay one pdf or ps file on top of another
You can do this with pdf files using the command line tool pdftk using the stamp or background option. e.g. $ pdftk file1.pdf background file2.pdf output combinedfile.pdf This will only work with a one-page background file. If you have multiple pages, you can use the multibackground command instead.