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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:21:44+00:00

Is there any command line tool for Linux that will allow me to annotate

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Is there any command line tool for Linux that will allow me to annotate a PS or PDF file with text or a particular font, color, and size with no loss of quality? I have tried ImageMagick’s convert, and the resulting PDF is of pretty poor quality.

I have a template originally authored in Adobe Illustrator, and I would like to generate PDFs from it with names in certain places. I have a huge list of names, so I would like to do this in a batch (not interactively).

If anyone has any ideas I’d appreciate hearing them.
Thanks,
Carl

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think it’s better to create PDF form and fill it with pdftk fill_form in batch:

    $ pdftk form.pdf fill_form data.fdf output out.pdf flatten

    Form data should be in Forms Data Format (it’s just XML file with field names and values specified).
    Note the flatten command. It is required to convert filled form to plain document.

    Another way is to create set of PDF documents “with names in certain places” and transparent background, and pdftk stamp each of them over the template:

    $ pdftk template.pdf stamp words.pdf output out.pdf
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