Re: Including a series of pdf-file into one large file

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:24 PM 9/21/00 +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> is there a possibility to prepare a series of  (samll) pdf-files with
>> CONTEXT and put them afterwards into one single (large) pdf-file?
>Well you could use pdftex via texexec to combine any PDF file, but you
>loose interactivity (and possibly increase filesize since pdftex,
>Ghostscript and Distiller create random font filename in order to
>work around a bug in AR (why didn't Adobe fix this bug...)).

The size grows indeed, but when fonts are used that are mentioned in the
map files, pdftex will do it's best to include them once and duplicates
only the subset vectors. So, indeed files grow a bit. 

>texexec --pdfarrange should be your friend (on the
>http://www.pragma-ade.com/
>should be the documentation about texexec, but I cannot find it yet :-(

context -> texexec 

so texexec has it's own page

Hans
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