[KLUG Members] Re: merging PDF files. (Michael Rudas)

Joe Baker joebaker at dcresearch.com
Wed Oct 19 15:17:58 EDT 2005


>   1. Re: merging PDF files. (Michael Rudas)
>--- Komal wrote:
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>>>3. Use ps2pdf to make that document a pdf again.
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>>NO. But I appreciate your help. There should be
>>another way to achieve the same.
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>Actually, that IS the best way--since PDF is an
>encapsulated format, you are going to HAVE to
>"de-construct" the individual files to SOME degree in
>order to combine them, and that's the
>most-straightforward way, by far!
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The Scribus program lets you place PDF files on pages and re-export a new PDF file.
There is also an article on News forge here that talks about using Ghostscript to do just this from a command line.


http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/09/1844259

I had an engineer who needed to do this here so I looked into it once.  
Good Luck!
Sincerely,
Joe Baker
Network Administrator - NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.
(Across the Lake between Milwaukee and a town called "Lake Geneva".



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