Thanks so much for the quick response, but it still didn't work.  We had
to make do with A4, not big deal.  However, maybe I should submit this as
a bug since I really think I've tried every option shown in the help.  
Texexec is the ONLY free Linux software I could find that could merge 
encrypted PDFs without any loss in quality!

Here's what I did:



##### pdfinfo #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert10.pdf
Title:        Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F
Author:       mward00@THISTOWN
Creator:      PScript5.dll Version 5.2
Producer:     Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343
CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:    612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:    101763 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert11.pdf
Title:        Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F
Author:       mward00@THISTOWN
Creator:      PScript5.dll Version 5.2
Producer:     Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343
CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:    612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:    101763 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

##### ACTUAL COMMAND #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ texexec --pdfarrange --paper=letter*letter --print=2up 
--result=out.pdf testcert10.pdf testcert11.pdf

### Output attached as out.log ###


##### RESILT FILE INFO #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo out.pdf
Creator:      TeX
Producer:     pdfTeX-0.14h
CreationDate: Fri Jul  4 18:28:00 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        2
Encrypted:    no
Page size:    595.276 x 841.89 pts
File size:    202996 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3



At this point I'm not really asking for help, but trying to maybe help 
point out a bug.  It's texexec version 2.6, but if there is any other 
info you need please let me know.  Oh --- and I know you're probably not 
the main developer/maintainer, but there wasn't one listed.  So I'm going 
through you. :-)  

Thanks so much for your time and help!
Marshall Ward







On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 23:01 01/07/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to combine multiple PDF files. When I run
> >
> >"texexec --pdfarrange *.pdf"
> >
> >it works fine except for one thing: the input is in letter format and the
> >output appears to be in A4.  A little bit of the right side gets cut off.
> >
> >I've tried --mode=letter and a bunch of other options but nothing seems to
> >force texexec to output in letter.
> >
> >Can you help me?
> 
> texexec --help pdfarrange
> 
> TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003
> 
>           --pdfarrange   arrange pdf pages
>             --addempty   add empty page after
>           --background
>                            =string   : background graphic
>            --backspace   inner margin of the page
>             --markings   add cutmarks
>             --noduplex   single sided
>                --paper   paper format
>          --paperoffset   room left at paper border
>            --textwidth   width of the original (one sided) text
>             --topspace   top/bottom margin of the page
> 
> 
> --paper=letter*letter --print=2up
> 
> or if you run a recent context --paper=A*B being letter on doubleletter - 
> which is actually non existent -
> 
> (there is an experimental gui for page imposition; will update/post that 
> one soon)
> 
> Hans
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