concatenate PDF files.

concatenate PDF files.

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this 
e-mail from Hans:

	http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-January/000240.html

saying that "texexec" can do it in several ways! and to look on the web-site,
texexec manual and the mailing list for directions.

I went to the manual first and found only ONE:

	texexec --pdfarrange --noduplex --paper=S6 file-a file-b

but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening 
from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next
I went to two other sources he mentioned and Googled for: "-ntg-context 
concatenate pdf" did not yield much beyond that, and neither did Googling
http://www.pragma-ade.com/ for the words "concatenate" or "combine".

So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and
preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ?

Paulo Ney

Re: concatenate PDF files.

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
Paulo Ney de Souza <desouza@Math.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and
> preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ?

--pdfcombine, --pdfcopy and --pdfselect switches are also available,
but my guess is that what you want is (currently) not possible. 

What texexec actually does is: it creates a temporary TeX input file
that starts with the \setuppaper, \setuplayout etc. implementing the
options you have given on texexec's commandline. In the document body 
it then includes (every) page(s) of the pdf file(s) as an external 
image. This image is scaled and rotated etc. as needed. 

This process probably trashes the internal structure of the document.


Greetings, Taco

Re: concatenate PDF files.

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 02.09.2004 um 23:01 schrieb Paulo Ney de Souza:

> I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this
> e-mail from Hans:
...
> but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening
> from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). 
> Next

At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this.
It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.


Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Re: concatenate PDF files.

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 03.09.2004 um 21:52 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

>> but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the 
>> opening
>> from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). 
>> Next
> At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this.
> It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.

I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see
http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html

Perhaps it fits your needs; I didn't try it.

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Re: concatenate PDF files.

[Alexander Klink]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> >At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this.
> >It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.
> 
> I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see
> http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html
I can't recommend Multivalent (http://multivalent.sf.net)
enough. OK, it needs Java 1.4, but except for that it is quite
nice. It can do concatenation, compression, encryption, ...

Greetings,
		Alex

Re: concatenate PDF files.

[Hans Hagen]

Alexander Klink wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>  
>
>>>At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this.
>>>It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.
>>>      
>>>
>>I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see
>>http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html
>>    
>>
>I can't recommend Multivalent (http://multivalent.sf.net)
>enough. OK, it needs Java 1.4, but except for that it is quite
>nice. It can do concatenation, compression, encryption, ...
>  
>
unfortunately mv does not handle colors well (apart from being rather slow) but it certainly looks promissing. 

Hans 

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concatenate PDF files.

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this 
e-mail from Hans:

	http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-January/000240.html

saying that "texexec" can do it in several ways! and to look on the web-site,
texexec manual and the mailing list for directions.

I went to the manual first and found only ONE:

	texexec --pdfarrange --noduplex --paper=S6 file-a file-b

but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening 
from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next
I went to two other sources he mentioned and Googled for: "-ntg-context 
concatenate pdf" did not yield much beyond that, and neither did Googling
http://www.pragma-ade.com/ for the words "concatenate" or "combine".

So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and
preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ?

Paulo Ney