From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Ben Barrowes <barrowes@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: texexec ignores file order
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:44:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493E4BFC.6050207@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0812090211250.17501@nqv-yncgbc>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Ben Barrowes wrote:
>
>> exexec --pdfarrange --result=yujo_insurance.pdf yujo_insurance1.pdf
>> yujo_insurance2.pdf yujo_insurance3.pdf yujo_insurance4.pdf
>> yujo_insurance5.pdf yujo_insurance6.pdf yujo_insurance7.pdf
>> yujo_insurance8.pdf yujo_insurance9.pdf yujo_insurance10.pdf
>> yujo_insurance11.pdf yujo_insurance12.pdf
>>
>>
>> After upgrading recently, I found that texexec no longer preserves the
>> order of files passed to it. When I concatenate files with texexec, I
>> often have more than 10 files I want to pass to texexec names
>> filename1.pdf, filename2.pdf, ... filename12.pdf, etc. In the past,
>> the following has worked to concatenate these in the correct order:
>>
>> texexec --pdfarrange --result=filename.pdf `ls -a -v filename*.pdf`
>>
>> Now, even if I pass filename10.pdf after filename2.pdf on the command
>> line, texexec ingores this and puts filename10.pdf before
>> filename2.pdf in the resulting concatenated file.
>>
>> Is there a fix for this, or is there a better way to concatenate pdf
>> files?
the latest version should preserve unless --sort if given
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 21:41 Ben Barrowes
2008-12-09 7:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-12-09 10:44 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-07-20 17:36 Ben Barrowes
2009-07-21 7:55 ` luigi scarso
2009-07-21 11:16 ` Ben Barrowes
2009-07-21 12:36 ` luigi scarso
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