Hi, Can't you combine PDFs with Acrobat Pro?? afn T
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Stevens <jeff@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 07:51 +0930, Matthew Smith wrote:
> > The one thing that would make my process easier is if I had a tool
> > that
> > could merge my PostScript or PDF files. Tried it using an art package
> > (the Gimp), without success. I also tried a bit of raw PostScript
> > programming a year or so back, but that just gave me a headache ;-)
>
> There are many ways to concatenate PDF files -- unfortunately, none of
> them are likely to be 100% reliable for strange edge cases. You can get
> pretty darn close to 100% though with a few methods.
>
> Take a look at the pdfjam package [1]. It comes with a bash script
> called pdfjoin:
>
> pdfjoin first.pdf second.pdf third.pdf --outfile joined.pdf
>
> It uses pdflatex to do the voodoo and does so extremely well.
>
> [1]
>
<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam>
>
> As an interesting aside, with "simple" PDF files, you can actually do
> the following:
>
> cat first.pdf second.pdf > joined.ps
> ps2pdf joined.ps
>
> ps2pdf will complain about errors but usually recover and provide a nice
> concatenated PDF file. The pdfjoin script is much more elegant and
> proper, however.
>
> -Jeff
>