[FRIAM] OT: How to concatenate PDFs without pain

[Russell Standish]

Which method did you use? Feeding the stuff through pdftex sounds like
the sledgehammer approach.

I have done this successfully for a more limited application - merging
pages from a scanner (and earlier from "efax", fax machine
software). In this case, the raw material was a bunch of ps files, and
I quickly found psmerge didn't work.

I simply wrote a perl script to schlop the PS structuring conventions
in, breaking each document into a prologue, and the page
descriptions. Then concatenate the prologue with the data for each
page, adding appropriate %%Page separator.

This works, because the prologue is identical for all pages (generated
by the same postscript driver).

However, it is definitely not portable. I had to reimplement the
version I did for the fax machine for the scanner, but its not hard -
only 34 lines of Perl.

Cheers

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Off Topic but interesting: How to concatenate pdf files:
>    http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php
> I used this to take 10 book chapters in pdf into a single "book".  I  
> did this mainly to make it far more searchable.
> 
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